Ralf Schumacher who is a member of a family of motor-racing enthusiasts and has successfully competed in several top-class motor-racing categories. His brother Michael set a world record by winning the Formula One World Championship seven times while his son David and his nephew Mick also are successful kart and single-seater drivers.

In 2016, the former Formula 1 and DTM ace began to use his experience and knowledge as RAVENOL’s engineering consultant. Now, RAVENOL and Schumacher will design and develop high-performance lubricants based on poly-alpha-olefins for motor racing and use in particularly adverse operating conditions.

The successful long-term cooperation began in karting and single-seater racing. The close and intense collaboration now also is reflected by the product development resulting in an entirely new racing-oil range launched now that is recommended by Ralf Schumacher. The dynamic RS on the oil bottle's front-side label (RS stands for Ralf Schumacher) is placed prominently on the bins of seven already completely designed and developed products.

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FROM RACE TRACK TO THE ROAD

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In consideration of the fact that more and more motor-racing categories are contested with close-to-production vehicles, enhancing the lubricants to a performance level that also meets the motor-racing demands represented a logical step for RAVENOL. A particularly good example for this fact is the  RAVENOL VMP 5W-30 – the only motor-racing oil in the Audi Motorsport sport-component catalogue for the Audi RS3 LMS TCR (p. 43) – that has an official OEM approval for use in day-to-day traffic by Audi, BMW, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, Mercedes and VW at the same time. Accordingly, the brand developed a new product range of Mid-SAPS engine oils meeting the ACEA C3 quality-level demands: RAVENOL RUP 5W-40 and RAVENOL REP 5W-30 as well as the Full-SAPS oil RAVENOL RSP 5W-30 for the quality level ACEA A3/B4.

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