{"id":27458,"date":"2012-07-23T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27458"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:18:19","slug":"audi-r8r-lmp-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/audi-r8r-lmp-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi R8R LMP Prototype concept"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

If you’re the sort of person for whom the very words Le Mans makes you break out in a fantastic motorsport inspired sweat, then you’ll probably enjoy these images of a very special car.<\/p>\n

It’s basically the 1998 design study upon which Audi’s unbelievably successful aspirations of success in the 24hrs was based.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

Like all prototypes, it does, unfortunately, look even more beautiful and purely rendered than the cars that actually came to dominate in the first years of this century – but we think you’ll agree this ‘prototype of a prototype’ is worth savouring for its rakish lines alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

This beauty also teases out the very real relationship between endurance racing success and that of Audi’s road cars – not just in the R8 supercars that are becoming almost as ubiquitous as 911s in certain postcodes – but in the more accessible everyman vehicles that rakishly ply our British byways.<\/p>\n

Further justification, if it were needed, of the importance of a racing programme within an illustrious motor works…<\/p>\n\n\t\t