Nurburgring 24 Hours winner and GT Masters champion Kelvin van der Linde has become the latest high-profile driver to leave Audi's factory stable of GT3 drivers.
The elder of the van der Linde brothers was absent from Audi's customer racing announcement on Tuesday, where it named 14 drivers as part of its factory line-up for 2023.
Van der Linde's DTM rivals Nico Muller and Rene Rast split with Audi at the end of last year to join Peugeot and BMW respectively, while Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts also jumped ship to BMW over the winter.has clinched championship titles, 24-hour race victories and many other successes with Audi," said Audi customer racing boss Chris Reinke.
The 26-year-old is yet to comment on his departure from Audi, nor has he announced his full racing programme for 2023. As part of his association with the team, Van der Linde will make a third Formula E appearance for Abt at his home event in Cape Town this weekend, substituting again for an injuredHe leaves Audi after nearly a decade under its umbrella, winning the GT Masters title in 2014 and '19 and coming close to clinching the championship in the DTM at his first attempt in 2021. His other successes include two outright wins at the Nurburgring 24 Hours, the second of which was scored last year.
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