AUDI R8R LMP PROTOTYPE

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If you’re the sort of person for whom the very words Le Mans makes you break out in a fantastic motorsport inspired sweat, then you’ll probably enjoy these images of a very special car.
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It’s basically the 1998 design study upon which Audi’s unbelievably successful aspirations of success in the 24hrs was based.

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Like all prototypes, it does, unfortunately, look even more beautiful and purely rendered than the cars that actually came to dominate in the first years of this century – but we think you’ll agree this ‘prototype of a prototype’ is worth savouring for its rakish lines alone.

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This beauty also teases out the very real relationship between endurance racing success and that of Audi’s road cars – not just in the R8 supercars that are becoming almost as ubiquitous as 911s in certain postcodes – but in the more accessible everyman vehicles that rakishly ply our British byways.

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Further justification, if it were needed, of the importance of a racing programme within an illustrious motor works…

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