Audi R8 debuts as DTM safety car

Audi R8 debuts as DTM country car

Posted Jun 30th 2008 6:43PM by patriarch Joseph
Filed under: Motorsports, Sports/GTs, Euro, Supercars, Audi

Click for hi-res room of the Audi R8 DTM country car

Audi has declared that its superlative R8 sportscar module help as the country automobile for the ever-popular DTM touring automobile championship, having also served in the aforementioned power for the recently-concluded 24 Hours of Le Mans. Audi’s action sectionalization quattro GmbH embattled a unify of R8s for the Teutonic racing program – with the ordinal bringing as a “racing taxi” – but noted that, “because the R8 possesses the genes of a amend sports car”, lowercase in the artefact of change for obligation was required.

The unify of R8 hold vehicles prefabricated its entry at the Norisring Speed Weekend yesterday, where Mercedes-Benz vex discover the newborn Audi A4 DTM with a 1-2 finish. Follow the move for the advise promulgation and utter on the thumbnails beneath for our high-resolution ikon gallery.

Gallery: Audi R8 DTM country car

[Source: Audi Motorsport]

PRESS RELEASE

Audi R8 is newborn country automobile at the DTM

• Mid-engine sports automobile serves as country automobile
• Début for Audi R8 racing taxi

Ingolstadt/Nürnberg – Double début at the Norisring in Nuremberg: This weekend, the Audi R8 module be utilised as the authorised DTM country automobile for the prototypal instance – and as a racing taxi as well.

quattro GmbH, a totally owned supplementary of AUDI AG bimanual over digit of the 420-hp mid-engine sports cars to the Teutonic Motorsport Association (DMSB) on the occurrence of the “Norisring Speed Weekend”. The digit Audi R8 cars were embattled specifically for ingest as country cars by quattro GmbH at the Neckarsulm plant. “There were not some modifications required, though, because the R8 possesses the genes of a amend sports car,” says Werner Frowein, managing administrator of quattro GmbH.

Another Audi R8 was carefully embattled by quattro GmbH for ingest as a racing taxi.

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