The Le Mans-conquering Audi R15 TDI sports ancestor is apprenticed for Silverstone, area on Sunday September 12th it will afresh be bent up in yet added arresting skirmishes in the action for the new Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.
The ultimate Audi chase car, accepted internally as the R15 TDI ‘plus’, is based on the aboriginal 2009 R15 TDI, but appearance all-encompassing modifications to aerodynamics and to the almighty V10 agent agent fabricated aftermost winter to accede with new regulations. The full-blooded of these thoroughbreds includes the acclaimed R8, declared by Autosport annual afresh as ‘the best anytime sports prototype’, and the V12 TDI-powered Audi R10 TDI that fabricated history in 2006 by acceptable the aboriginal sportscar to win the Le Mans 24-hour chase beneath agent power.
The ultimate Audi chase car, accepted internally as the R15 TDI ‘plus’, is based on the aboriginal 2009 R15 TDI, but appearance all-encompassing modifications to aerodynamics and to the almighty V10 agent agent fabricated aftermost winter to accede with new regulations. The full-blooded of these thoroughbreds includes the acclaimed R8, declared by Autosport annual afresh as ‘the best anytime sports prototype’, and the V12 TDI-powered Audi R10 TDI that fabricated history in 2006 by acceptable the aboriginal sportscar to win the Le Mans 24-hour chase beneath agent power.
In its revised form, added by anew developed turbo chargers with capricious agent geometry (VTG), the latest 5.5-litre, ten butt agent assemblage powered the Audi R15 TDI into the top-three places in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, the brand’s ninth achievement in arguably the world’s toughest motor race.