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Audi team boss Mattia Binotto has shared a depressing timeline for when the German brand could fight for the title, and he feels it is not going to happen before 2030. The Swiss took over from Andreas Seidl early in the year and has since been focused on trying to assess where the project is in terms of status.
First impressions do not seem great at the moment, as Binotto feels it's going to be a long time before Audi gets closer to the front. The German brand had announced in 2022 that it would enter F1. The man for the job was supposed to be Andreas Seidl, as he managed the systematic takeover of Sauber.
In the last couple of years, while the plan has changed from 75% to 100% ownership of Sauber, there's not much that has happened in terms of either track performance or off-track progress. Audi's power unit efforts have been going on in the background but the racing and chassis unit at Hinwil is in desperate need of an overhaul.
