Eventually, by the end of the race, the #1 Audi lost a lap and soon was passed by the second of the Porsches, moving the #1 back to fifth. At the end of hour three, both cars were lapped by the fast-paced Toyota, and, in the end, the #2 car could not catch the Porsche in third position, who was on the same lap. Audi's regular season car numbers did not change from last year, as the main two cars still sported the #7 and #8. The race got under way with the air temperature at 9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit) and the track temperature at 7 degrees Celsius (46 degrees Fahrenheit). In the next session, the #2 would be the best of the cars in third place. That did not stop Audi from setting the pace during the first session of the week. Brendon Hartley set the fastest qualifying record (at the time), with an individual time of 1:42.621 seconds to lead the duo of Porsches to the front row starting positions. The #7 and #8 finished the first practice in positions first and second, besting the duo of Porsches in third and fourth. However, it lost another lap during this hour. The safety monocoque has been strengthened with additional fabric. When the six hours elapsed, the #7 Audi was on top of the standings and winning the race by about four and a half seconds over the second place #18 Porsche. [36][37][38], The eighty-third annual 24 Hours of Le Mans would be the next round of the 2015 season. The #7 was the fastest during the first practice and the #8 finished third fastest in the opening practice. Dominant runs in practice and qualifying would place the Le Mans-winning #2 crew on pole position ahead of its sister car the #1, which followed behind three tenths off the pace. Early on in the running of the race, the #1 looked to move up the order against its rivals in the first hour and placed in fourth by the end of the hour. [citation needed] The R18 has an engine cooling duct above the cockpit roof as well as redesigned rear wheel arches to channel more air to the rear wing. To avoid vortices and turbulent airflow, which creates a loss of energy in the airflow (an increase in air resistance), Audi created a smaller monocoque space within the chassis structure, to allow high energy air to flow with ease through the chassis of the car. The #7 set a 1:39.201 to lead the field, and the #8 had the third-fastest time. However, by the end of qualifying practice the #1 and #2 were in the same places that they finished by the end of the first practice, the #1 in second and the #2 in fourth. With the aid of lap traffic, the Audi was able to keep the lead. Much of the same weather conditions from the first two practices were present in the third practice, and the #1 finished the session in fourth and the #2 finished in sixth position. [41] As the sun began to set over the track in the seventh hour, the #9 was able to pass the #17 Porsche on raw pace after a pit stop, and the #7 followed in third. The number #2 car's driver crew was second place, and they would need a very solid finish and the #8 car to finish last in the LMP1-H standings after the race concluded. Two of Toyota's drivers, Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi in the #8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid had the ability to clinch the drivers' championship with a position of fifth place or better or the #2 Audi finishing lower than first place. The #3 car would be run by Marco Bonanomi, Filipe Albuquerque, and Oliver Jarvis. For the first time since the 1999 R8C, Audi's Le Mans prototype uses a closed cockpit design. [48][49][50][51], The 6 Hours of Circuit of the Americas was the next race on the calendar and the first race in North America for the season. The #8 qualified fifth and the #9 qualified eighth. The newly built monocoque was made bigger and more layered on the outside for safety purposes; to withstand higher loads during a collision. It featured a 92-kWh battery. The season would conclude with the 6 hours of Bahrain, and Audi would not dominate as they did for the majority of the season. [31][24], The finale of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship would be at the famous Brazilian circuit Autódromo José Carlos Pace for the 6 Hours of São Paulo. The first free practice session was battled out at record-setting paces for both Audi and Porsche. More than ever, the new R18 directs airflow more efficiently to the underfloor to escape via the rear diffuser, which helps create a downforce to assist the car in cornering. The car is built by Audi Sport GmbH in a newly renovated factory at Audi's 'aluminium site' at Neckarsulm in Germany. The battle was briefly halted by both cars pitting in for service, but after all the cars in the race pitted, the battle between the two resumed for the overall lead. A flywheel capable of storing over 600 kJ of energy would be inside the car as well. A wet third practice had the Audis separated, on opposite end of the LMP1-H leaderboard. The 2016 season began at Silverstone Circuit as it did for all the years of the FIA WEC seasons. There were two qualifying sessions, one for the LM GTE's and Prototype racers. A rear-wheel-drive model called the R8 RWS was introduced. As the Toyotas and Porsches struggled to adjust to the rain that their lack of grip slicks gave them, Audi came out of the storm on top, with one of the Porsches trailing them. [42] Through the midway point hour, the #19 Porsche had a sixty-five second lead over the #7 Audi, with the #9 fifty seconds back. However, it would only be a few laps until the Porsche in third showed its ability to challenge the first of the Audis for second, that car being the #8. Unlike the earlier 2010 prototype based on the first-generation R8, it actually entered production, but only on a small scale, with less than 100 units sold. Audi dropped the e-tron quattro name badge for the 2016 season. The standings would stay this way until the end of the fifth hour, where both Audi's and Porsche's cars were all even at five pit stops, the #17 Porsche leading the #7 in second and #8 in third with the #18 Porsche in fourth. This particularly showed with the results at the rounds to come after Le Mans. Audi could only manage laps in the 1:37 range and just as the third practice, the #8 was third and the #7 was fourth. Both the Porsche and Audi cars would take one more stop before the race ended, and ultimately, it would determine the finishing order of the #18 Porsche and Audis #7 and #8. However, during hour two until the end of three, the #2 car regained the lead, being followed closely by the Toyota in second. This was how the positioning for first hour would end for the Audis. Towards the end of the race, pit strategy would play a role in determining the outcome of the race. About ten minutes later, the #7 made a pit stop. The Audi R8, based on the Audi Le Mans quattro concept car (designed by Frank Lamberty and Julian Hoenig) first appeared at the 2003 International Geneva Motor Show and the 2003 Frankfurt International Motor Show. Le nom a été repris pour la Audi R18 e-tron quattro , une voiture de course hybride à transmission intégrale de la catégorie LMP1 ( Sport-prototypes ) qui a remporté les 24 Heures du Mans en 2012 , 2013 et 2014 . Trouble would also be in store for the #8, as the car stopped off track with MGU problems. Meanwhile, the #18 Porsche decreased the gap more and more. The #8 rounded off the LMP-H category, eleven laps down. Going into the final lap, the gap between the #7 Audi and the #18 Porsche was just under six seconds. Audi finished 1-2-3-4 in the race. Production of the Type 42 ended in August 2015.[10][11][12]. The #8 was in fifth, one lap down. With fifteen minutes to go in the race, the leading #7 Audi received a timed stop and go penalty, right after heading into the pits the previous lap. By the end of hour four, the #7 lead the race, and the #8 was situated in fifth, five laps down. The Audi R8 e-tron (2015) was an all-electric version of the second-generation R8. The pit strategy did not help their cause, as grip came at a premium during the race, and that strategy cost them a lot of time. In comparison to the 2014 car the 2015 R18 e-tron quattro's aerodynamics have been significantly improved and the turbocharged 4.0L V6 diesel engine now produces more power while using less fuel. [21], Audi intended to run one of each model for the remaining five races in the season. A damp practice session would be dominated by the e-tron quattro's and would continue into the dry qualifying session, with cars #1, #3, and #2 (in that order) qualifying a second within each other taking the first three spots. Going into the last hour is where Audi began to lose its advantage of the two podium spots it claimed, as the pace of the Porsches increased, and the second of the Porsches got second place. These changes included Xtrac sequential electrically activated 6-speed racing gearbox with gearbox housing made of new carbon-fiber composite with titanium inserts, carbon clutch, changes to the carbon-fiber composite aluminum honeycomb monocoque built by Dallara,[4][5] Single Garrett (Honeywell Turbo Technologies) turbocharger with boost pressure limited to 280 kPa absolute,[6] However, the #2 car would finish third. [2] It was introduced by the German car manufacturer Audi AG in 2006. The #8 Audi made contact with a LMP2 car during the session, damaging the car enough take it out for the remainder of the session. In mid-2017, the high performance V10 plus Spyder was added to the range. The #8 Audi finished fifth place, three laps down. By the end of the first hour, the #2 and #1 stood in the middle of the LMP1 fray, third and fourth respectively, with the #3 car hanging onto sixth position. However, a mistake by the #7 sent the car spinning at the bus stop chicane, dropping the #7 to fourth place behind the #8. The #1 car would be piloted by André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer, and Marcel Fässler. The #9 car in testing set the fastest lap of all the Audi prototypes during the first test day of a 3-minute and 22.307-second lap to be on pace for second place, three tenths off the leading #18 Porsche. Despite the result, Audi would still win the manufacturer's title by sixty-four and a half points. The victory also marked Kristensen's sixth Sebring win, and as a three-driver team, the third (2006 and 2009). All the Audi prototypes would be seconds back off the pace, sitting in positions fourth through sixth, the fastest Audi being the #7 setting a lap in the 3 minute and 19 second range. The Audi R18 is a Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racing car constructed by the German car manufacturer Audi AG. The race got underway under clear conditions and during the first hour it was very close amongst Audi and its rivals Toyota and Porsche. [33][34] Type 4S models appeared in later Marvel Studios movies with 2016 V10 Plus models in Avengers: Age of Ultron[35] and Captain America: Civil War[36] and a Spyder model in Spider-Man: Homecoming. – dailysportscar.com", "FIA WEC: Bahrain, Free Practice 1, Porsche Fastest But Audi Close – dailysportscar.com", "FIA WEC: Bahrain, Free Practice 2, Audi 1,2 – dailysportscar.com", "FIA WEC: Bahrain, Free Practice 3, Porsche Fastest, Aston Martin In GTE Classes – dailysportscar.com", "FIA WEC: Bahrain, LMP Qualifying, Porsche Complete Pole Clean Sweep – dailysportscar.com", "FIA WEC: Bahrain, Brief Race Report, LMP1, Dramas Galore! The Audi R8, based on the Audi Le Mans quattro concept car (designed by Frank Lamberty and Julian Hoenig) first appeared at the 2003 International Geneva Motor Show and the 2003 Frankfurt International Motor Show.The R8 road car was officially launched at the Paris Auto Show on 30 September 2006. The #17 Porsche had a failure of the gathering of energy to the front axle of the car. Unlike its predecessor, there was no manual transmission available and the entry-level V8 trim was also dropped. The finale of the season concluded with the #1 car taking a podium position in third and the #2 car settle back to fifth. While the battle between the #7 and #18 continued, the #8 gained time on the two upfront as it aimed to get back on the lead lap. The same result from the third practice session stood for the qualifying session for the LMP1-H field, except the position of the #1 and #2, who switched starting grid positions, with the #2 starting fifth and the #1 starting sixth. By the end of hour 1, the #2 car sat in second place behind the lone Toyota machine and the #1 car in fourth behind the Rebellion Racing entry, one lap down from the lead. The race would prove to be a worthy challenge for Audi by their rivals Toyota. The KERS for the 2016 R18 has also been changed from a flywheel system to a lithium-ion battery, and has been upgraded to the 6MJ class from the 4MJ class to improve boosting. In the first qualifying practice, the Porsches locked out the top three positions, with the best Porsche, #18 setting a 3-minute and 16.887 lap. In qualifying, the #1 car would settle for second and the #2 for fourth respectively. The Motorsport variants of the R8 were also subsequently introduced from 2008 onwards. [16], In the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Allan McNish (car #3) and Mike Rockenfeller's (#1) cars were involved in heavy high speed collisions with slower Ferraris. Audi's technology of Matrix LED headlights and LaserLight was carried over and revised for 2016, and rearward vision is displayed through an AMOLED monitor connected to a rearview camera. When the car returned to the track, it was eight laps down on the leader, which happened to be the #7 Audi, which was threatening for the drivers' title. [60] In the final practice, the Porsches took the first two positions, and Audi finished with the #7 in third and #8 in fourth. Having to be wary of the time it was losing to the #1 Toyota, the #17 Porsche team decided to send the car back out onto the track without it front axle energy storage system active, with only the exhaust energy recovery system functioning. This placed rival Porsche in the lead with the #2 trailing it on the same lap. The front end and overall vehicle length changed, with the nose of the car becoming slimmer than ever before. For all the rounds except Le Mans, in all car categories the times for the top two fastest drivers were averaged together, and the car grid was set by fastest time based on the fastest duos first. Audi upgraded the R18 to the 6 MJ class, and for the new car, an electrochemical battery storage system will accumulate energy in the hybrid system instead of a flywheel, which will be located in the monocoque. The final standings were the #17 and #18 Porsches finishing first and second while the #7 and #8 were third and fourth. The Toyota hybrids were able to continue after being rescued by safety marshals. Audi outlasted Porsche's temporary display of speed, but could not catch the faster rival Toyota, which resulted in a manufacturers' points finishing position of second place. The leading Porsche would soon fall off the pace and lose the lead from a lack of engine power, and the duo of #2 and #1 (who was about a minute back), swarmed the Porsche and took the lead and second position. After the #7 and #8 pitted, the #18 would pit, and would get out the pit quicker than the Audis, allowing it to leap both the #7 and the #8 by the end of the race. Paris has arguably the biggest biotech cluster in Europe, with a wide range of applications, from drug development and medical devices to synthetic biology and green energy. However the remaining Audi R18 (#2 of Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer) went on to win the race by 13.854 seconds. Testing took place two weeks prior to the race, and the #3 car driven by Marco Bonanomi was the fastest time set by Audi during the test session, setting a time of 3 minutes and 23.799 seconds. Porsche pitted for new racing slicks and Toyota chose to be brave and try and out last the drenched track. The Audi R18 is a Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racing car constructed by the German car manufacturer Audi AG.It is the successor to the Audi R15 TDI.Like its predecessor, the R18 uses a TDI turbocharged diesel engine but with a reduced capacity of 3.7 litres and in a V6 configuration. [7][8][9], The car received a facelift in 2012 and a new model called the V10 Plus was now added to the range. The biggest incident early on in the race occurred with the #3, who was rear-ended by a GTE car in a section of the track where heavy rain spontaneously fell, resulting in heavy rear damage and an early retirement for the lead Audi off the grid. The R8 road car was officially launched at the Paris Auto Show on 30 September 2006. By the end of the second hour, the #7 placed first and the #8 in fourth, both cars having taken a pit stop. More dramas would remain through as the #2 would be driven into the garage to replace a failed turbocharger in the sixteenth hour of the race. Through the fourth to the end of the fifth hour, the #7 would defend its lead against the Porsche, maintaining good pace, even with a safety car period that brought them nose-to-tail. The pole position belonged to Toyota. The second practice session would only see one of the Audis take part, that being the #7. [2], It is also the first production car with full-LED headlamps.[6]. [13][14] In 2016, the convertible (Spyder) variant was added to the line up which was initially available in the base V10 trim. When the race week started with the first practice, every Audi finished in the top six, with the #8 placing in second, setting a lap of 3 minutes and 21.950 seconds. The car is exclusively designed, developed, and manufactured by Audi AG's private subsidiary company manufacturing high performance automotive parts, Audi Sport GmbH (formerly quattro GmbH),[4] and is based on the Lamborghini Gallardo and presently the Huracán platform. The #9 was in seventh, one lap down. Unlike other coupé competitors in its class, the chassis on the R18 is not composed of two halves but rather is of single-piece construction for improved rigidity. The #8 car would be driven by Oliver Jarvis, Lucas Di Grassi, and Loïc Duval. The #8 finished fourth. Going into the last hour, the last pit stop for the Audi brought its advantage over Porsche to seven seconds. So far in the season for manufacturers' points, Audi held a seventeen-point advantage over Porsche, led by pace and strategy, which resulted in victories. The new engine has a single Garrett (Honeywell Turbo Technologies) TR30R VGT turbocharger, as opposed to the twin TR30R configuration of both the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP and the previous Audi R15 TDI. Audi would evolve the R18 e-tron quattro into an entirely new and different looking car from its revised 2013 predecessor to adapt to the changes that the new LMP1 regulations (for hybrids) presented. Following averaging a tenth behind was the #8, which snapped an 11-race streak starting from pole for Porsche. In qualifying, the #7 Audi, after being mostly at the bottom of the LMP1-H standings for both of the free practice sessions, the #7 was able to rebound to earn a pole for the race. They only trailed Toyota by one point heading into the next round. The win at Le Mans placed Audi in prime position to overtake Toyota in Austin, at the 6 hours of Circuit of the Americas. The #7 would place fifth overall. During the last practice, Porsche set the fastest laps of any of the practice sessions and took the top two spots. The #7 Audi would move up to seventh overall, seven laps down. The #9 car would be only eligible for manufacturer points at Le Mans, while the drivers would be able to receive points based on finishing position for each race they raced. All throughout the race Audi brought a significant challenge to get both of their cars on the podium, particularly the #1. Both Audis got away cleanly and the #7 gained a significant lead off the start. The clear message is that Audi plans on actually producing more derivatives of its stylish two-door, but the question is which one will come first? The R18 is also the first racing car from Audi to feature hybrid power. The R18 TDI, which was unveiled at a launch in Ingolstadt on 10 December 2010, has made its race debut at the 1000 km Spa round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in May, finishing 3rd. Qualifying placed the Audis toward the back of the LMP1-H grid, as out of the six cars, the #2 qualified fourth and the #1 qualified sixth. Despite the capacity reduction, the 3.7L V6 is claimed to develop more than 397 kilowatts (532 bhp) of power. The #8 and #7 placed in third and fourth, with the first Audi about eight tenths off the lead. Nearly twenty-one hours in the race, the #1 car reported to the pits with the same problem that the #2 suffered from in the sixteenth hour with its turbocharger. The #1 would finish second place and the #2 would retire due to mechanical issues. Voimansiirtona oli kuusivaihteinen manuaalivaihteisto ja … The addition of a third entry was prepared by Audi prior to the 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Audi, although setting faster laps than the rest of the LMP1 field for the first time during a race in the season would struggle to run consistent lap times. Although they could not best the Porsches in the final classifications through consistent pace, they showed decent speed, battling with the Porsches throughout the races and setting competitive lap times, particularly with setting a race lap record at Le Mans (at the time, which was broken in 2019). As the LMP1 hybrids concluded their second pit stop cycle, the #1 Porsche had a lead of about forty seconds after a lengthy pit stop that included a driver change for the #7. The #8 would gain the lead with the leading #5 Toyota losing a massive amount of laps, suffering engine problems. The race started under partly cloudy skies, with the air temperature at 12 degrees Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit). The third hour ended with the #7 still chasing down the #18 Porsche in second place followed by the #8 in third.
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