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Old 03-19-2006, 05:26 PM
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Thumbs up Diesel Wins at American LeMans

Check out article here.
http://www.americanlemans.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=1872
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Audi did it, amazing.
And they upstaged Peugot during the announcements..

I believe it was in a recent Car and Driver.
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Fantastic!

...I wonder if any of the R8's are now for sale...?
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Technological marvel!!! It was almost unfair to the rest of the P1's. As the commentator stated, it will defintely change racing history. I'm sure Peugot is no too far behind.
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That was fun to watch. I Tivo’d all of the race coverage on Speed hoping to hear what the engine sounded like. It was surprised how quiet it was (so was everyone else). I heard the drivers had a difficult time adjusting to the lack of engine noise. It made it impossible for them to hear the shift points and they had to rely solely on the steering wheel shift lights. Not to mention that it didn’t have any traction control to help keep all of that torque from spinning the car out of the corners like a top. Good fun. What a car!

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