An Audi R18 E-Tron TDI that campaigned in the 2015 World Endurance Championship is for sale at a dealer in London.
. The hybrid R18 E-Tron Quattro raced alongside the TDI Ultra in 2012, and then replaced it as Le Mans regulations shifted from LMP1 to LMP1-H as the top class.
The car currently up for sale is the much-evolved 2015 version of the R18 E-Tron Quattro. It features significant aerodynamic changes, including bigger dive planes and large air inlets on the front wheel arches that required the crash structure to be re-tested, according to the listing. Other changes included new side pods with reworked radiator openings to improve cooling, and different rear-end bodywork designed to reduce drag.A turbodiesel 4.
The car up for sale is chassis 416, which was driven by Lucas di Grassi, Loïc Duval, and Oliver Jarvis. We know the trio finished fourth overall at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans,for the first time since 1998. But the listing only mentions chassis 416 being entered in that year's 6 Hours of Fuji, 6 Hours of Shanghai, and 6 Hours of Bahrain, which were also part of the FIA World Endurance Championship that year. The car finished fourth at Fuji and Shanghai, and sixth at the Bahrain race.
Audi won every 24 Hours of Le Mans between 2011 and 2014, and most going back to the turn of the century, but hasn't won since. The automaker
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