Ok. We don’t like to swear on this site but sometimes it requires some… HOLY M***** F***** !!!! In the back of everyone’s mind we are sure there was this vision, hope, dream that an Audi R8 would be made into a race version! We here it is!!! BAM! Will we see this put into a DTM version. It is RWD.
Click image for galleryFor the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer programme will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt, Neckarsulm and Györ. Continue reading ‘Audi develops race version of the R8′
- R8 racetrack training for competition winners
- New dynamic driving dimensions for participants
- Emphasis on safety and fun
Driving like Kristensen and Capello – sporty, dynamic and at the limits of what is physically possible. Which car fan hasn’t imagined at some time what it’s like to lap one of the leading international racetracks in a captivating sports car like the Audi R8? Now, for 25 winners of a competition in ‘Autozeitung’, this dream has come true. Continue reading ‘Audi Driving Experience at EuroSpeedway Lausitz’
- Mid-engine sports car serves as safety car
- Début for Audi R8 racing taxi
Double début at the Norisring in Nuremberg: This weekend, the Audi R8 will be used as the official DTM safety car for the first time – and as a racing taxi as well.
quattro GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of AUDI AG handed over two of the 420-hp mid-engine sports cars to the German Motorsport Association (DMSB) on the occasion of the “Norisring Speed Weekend”. The two Audi R8 cars were prepared specifically for use as safety cars by quattro GmbH at the Neckarsulm plant. “There were not many modifications required, though, because the R8 possesses the genes of a perfect sports car,” says Werner Frowein, managing director of quattro GmbH.
Another Audi R8 was carefully prepared by quattro GmbH for use as a racing taxi.
The readers of the German car magazine sport auto have cast their votes: Audi has taken first place in three classes in the poll to find ‘The Sportiest Cars of 2008’ with the S3, the RS 6 Avant, and the R8.
The victory of the Audi RS 6 Avant in its first appearance in the poll was particularly notable. It amassed a total of 31.7 % of reader votes and left its German competitors trailing in its wake.
As well as these three victories, the brand with the four rings also took numerous other top-three placings in the reader poll. The Audi A3 2.0 TDI, Audi TT Roadster 2.0 TFSI and Audi TTS all came second in their groups, while the A4 3.0 TDI quattro, A4 3.2 FSI quattro and A6 3.2 FSI quattro took impressive third places.
In ‘The Sportiest Cars of 2008’, there was a total of 14 categories for series-production vehicles and 11 tuning classes. More than 10,000 readers of sport auto took part.
