2001 - Le Mans - Highlights from the three quarters of the race
A nice highlights clip of the coverage, three quarters into the race. In order of incidents: 9.15:Seiji Ara jumps out of his burning #14 Viper ...
Is the R8 Audi’s iPod?
Is the R8 Audi’s iPod?
The Audi R8 has been with us for nearly five years now and it is still fresh faced. One reason for this is that Audi keep treating us to little updates which keep on making it better and better. We started with a V8, then boosted it up to a V10, have the possibility of chopping the roof off, nearly had a diesel, may have an electric and now we have a lightweight R8.
This all seems very clever because these additions are making the R8 still seem new, but fundamentally it is also making people cough up for the latest model. This nature of squeezing as much out of one car while constantly updating the line-up makes good business sense. In many ways the R8 follows Apple’s philosophy.
When the R8 first came on the scene it was a bit of a shock. Could the four rings really make a supercar? They had a pretty good record in motor sport; especially with the R8’s racing name sake winning Le Mans five out of the seven times it competed. Audi also had a pretty good parts bin to rummage around in being part of the VW group.
The Volkswagen Group comprises of nine active automotive companies, one of them being Scania – the lorry company. Luckily Audi stayed away from that section of the garage and headed for Lamborghini.
The Audi R8 shares its basic layout, transmissions, all-wheel drive and a modified version of its aluminium space frame with the Lamborghini Gallardo. Although, the majority of the car (about 85%) was developed by Audi and their in-house tuner Quattro GmbH, the R8 is a different beast to the Italian bull.
The first generation R8 had a V8 engine thrown in the middle and if we run with the Apple comparison it is the original iPod. 420bhp, 4.2 litres, 0-62mph in 4.6sec and a top speed of 187mph, Audi’s stats said a lot before people had even driven the car. Aesthetically the package gave something different to the other European supercars Audi were competing with. The R8 was more refined, more German but also had a performance feel with the skin trapping click-clack 6 speed manual transmission.
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