Audi R10: To race LeMans with 1100Nm V12 diesel

Another article from the world premiere of the Audi R10 in Paris.

There'll be a new, pretty quiet, exhaust note among the howling of high-revving engines and whistling of turbo waste gates at the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hours – a V12 diesel with so much torque the driver will hardly have to change gears.

Racing diesel engines – even diesel racing vans – have been around for a while but none in the league of this superhighperformance block of aluminium from Audi: ultra-high fuel-injection pressures have helped take its output to around 500kW and, way more importantly, its torque to more than 1100 nm.

Now Audi is hungry for the first diesel-powered win at Le Mans – even though wins there are its forté. Audi first raced at Le Mans in 1999 and has won the annual sports car classic five times in the last six years with its Audi R8.

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Audi R10: To race LeMans with 1100Nm V12 diesel

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