{"id":4887,"date":"2010-12-13T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T20:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2010-12-13T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T20:12:29","slug":"new-audi-r18-racer-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/new-audi-r18-racer-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Audi R18 Racer Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tick your company car box with ‘Audi’ and ‘diesel’, and you’d expect an A4 with 2.0-litre four-pot, right? Not so Allan McNish. The two-time Le Mans 24hr winner and Audi Motorsport driver has just taken delivery of his new company car, the Audi R18.<\/p>\n

The R18 is the first ‘closed roof’ Le Mans racer run by the Audi factory team and features a 3.7-litre V6 TDI (down from last season’s 5.5-litre V10 diesel) coupled to a six-speed box. The one-piece body allows for greater weight savings, while the chassis and aerodynamics were developed using previous ‘R’ models.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this R18 has also been designed for ‘progressive electrification’ as long as “it provides a true advantage”. Don’t forget, Audi has won the Le Mans 24hrs a staggering nine times from 12 attempts.<\/p>\n

The R18 will make its debut next year for an official test on 24 April ready for the race in June. For now, take a moment to ogle its rather delectable shape.<\/p>\n

Good share Nick Andrews – [Straight from TopGear<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tick your company car box with ‘Audi’ and ‘diesel’, and you’d expect an A4 with 2.0-litre four-pot, right? Not so Allan McNish. The two-time Le Mans 24hr winner and Audi Motorsport driver has just taken delivery of his new company … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,618,3,37],"tags":[233,1192,1191,1190],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-1gP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}