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.
With this news, the South African becomes the latest high-profile driver to leave the Volkswagen Group brand, whose decision to pull out of a planned LMDh assault on the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2023 has had repercussions elsewhere within its motorsport programmes.
