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Staff profile
We’d like to introduce staff mem- Adieu Le Mans
bers who will act as your contact
if required.
AUDI sets new objectives in racing sport

through DTM and Formula E

A many races there was not one single
particularly special kind of quality
case of engine failure, all of which
test for SCHERDEL was AUDI’s
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – SERVICE CENTRE – TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – NEWS AND INFORMATION
decade-long participation in the motor demonstrates the capability of the valve
racing World Endurance Championship springs in a compelling way. Despite
(WEC). A unique opportunity to fully pulling out of the WEC, AUDI will con-
Johannes Schraml test valve springs and other compo- tinue to compete in the German Tour-
Finance Manager nents from the Group in the harshest ing Car Championship (DTM). Seeing
motorsport environments. It is therefore as the race for the future will most
Tel.: +49 9231 603-205
Email: extremely regrettable for the Group that probably be contested on electric pow-
johannes.schraml@scherdel.de AUDI has decided to withdraw from this er, the German carmaker has also de-
competition, which also includes the Le cided to enter Formula E. This competi-
Johannes Schraml became Mans 24-Hour race. The brand with the tion can be seen as the ‘spearhead’ of
the Finance Manager at
SCHERDEL at the start of the four rings finished top of the podium in electrification in automotive engineer-
year. Johannes finished high Le Mans on no less than 16 occasions ing. SCHERDEL will continue to sup-
school in 1990 and, after between 1999 and 2016. Many innova- port its partner AUDI to the best of its
doing his national service, he tions moved directly from the race track ability in the motorsport sector and is
successfully completed an to full scale production. Besides direct hoping for lots of combined success ‘on
apprenticeship as a banker. gasoline injection (TFSI / 2001), this al- the way to the podium’. (dk)
After graduating from a dual so includes diesel technology (TDI /
system study programme in 2006), lightweight design technology
business administration at a (Ultra / 2011) and hybrid vehicles (E-
university of applied science,
he worked in various depart- Tron / 2014). As a development partner
ments of a large supply com- of AUDI, SCHERDEL is delighted by
pany and gained experience the fact that in all these years and
as a trainee and in the areas
of payroll accounting and
controlling. In 2000, the now
46-year-old joined the Photo: © AUDI
SCHERDELGroup and was
initially employed as the assis-
tant to the Executive Share-
holder Walter Bach. He sub-
sequently switched to the
Controlling department. For
roughly ten years, Johannes
has been employed in the
Finance department at
SCHERDEL. The main activi-
ties in this sector include
financial accounting, balanc-
ing of accounts and taxes, as
well as the topics of insur-
ances and financing. Jo-
hannes Schraml is married
and lives with his wife and two
children in Erbendorf. In his
leisure time, he manages to
balance his office life with lots
of physical activity. Further-
more, he enjoys singing in the
Unforgettable – the many AUDI victories in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) as shown here
church choir. (dk)
with the Audi e-tron quattro in Le Mans. In all the years and many races there was not one single case
of engine failure.

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