Romain Dumas crashes his Audi R18 Ultra into a tire wall, then proceeds to get out of the car and basically remove the entire front bodywork from both sides, get back in the car and drive it for 5-6 minutes back to the pits! Amazing bit of effort and determination from Dumas! Great to see.
As of right now, the #3 R18 is back in the race! Many laps down….but still in the race!
Here’s the video!
Toyota has a monumental task this year at Le Mans—with a brand new Le Mans team and race car, trying to fill in the vacant shoes of Peugeot. Audi are trying to surpass Ferrari on the all-time list of Le Mans victories, amidst the most dominant period of endurance racing ever seen by any marque this side of Porsche in the late 70s/early 80s.
I really miss Peugeot, however am also very pleased that Toyota have put their guts into building a race car that will most definitely be competitive. In early practices, it has been reported that the TS030 was only a bit over 1 second slower than the R18 e-tron quattro—-and considering all of the madness which actually goes down in the race and the traffic issues; I’d say Audi definitely have some competition this year.
That being said…The TS030 is fantastic to look at, and nicely fills in the shoes of the missing Peugeot blue and white race cars with their new blue, white, and red livery!
Only 10 days til the best race weekend of the year comes knocking on our doors!
src: Audi Sport
foto by Jake Yorath (L’endurance)
It’s raining a storm! The Audi R18 E-tron quattro debuts! Audi is currently 1-2-3-4. wicked!
Watch the race LIVE on Audi.tv
also alternatively you can watch this feed with live timing: FIA WEC
(foto below courtesy of Fourtitude)
1-2 finish at Sebring this weekend with the Audi R18 dominating……fantastic!
src: photo taken by Nick Busato from L’endurance
Revealed today. Absolutely gorgeous….probably the most stunning modern race car i’ve seen since the glory days of Le Mans in the 60s and 70s……right fookin on! Peugeot RIP!
