Audi R10 Wins Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta

What haven't they won?

That is a good queston.

Audi is a winning machine.

No surprises here!

That's right.

Illogical- Anyone can compete, the rules are identical to the overseas series where there is plenty of competition.

When you win you win the last 7 series in a row, it does tend to stifle the competition. BTW Dyson is a formidible competitor. Audi actually shook it up with the diesel, and Dyson was ready to take "the series" for 2006, that was until the first race against the diesel and then they realized the ante was raised yet again.

Expect serious limitations on the diesel's clearly dominate technology for 2007. If that doesn ont happen the competition has no choice but to move to diesels to compete. You already see that with Peugeot diesel effort in the 24 hours of LeMans car for 2007.

Pretty simple. It is called return of investment. F1 currently is so far removed from reality, that there is little translation to the street.

The R10 and ALMS is a more direct flow. Look at the R10 V12 going into the Q7 as a prime example. Try that with a F1 car. Far more removed from production series.

However F1 is an excellent venue and Audi probably would pursue is diesels were allowed.

Logical- Again, get your facts straight. BMW finshed 35th in the 24 hours of Lemans in 2000. After that they packed up the bags and moved out in the dead of night. Never to be heard from again.

BMW ran in DTM until getting spanked in the original series and left after Audi shows up.

Also BMW pulled out of World Challenge Racing after never making the top 10. Individuals still race the M3 series and but rarely finish in the top 10. Actually the private grassroots Audi 1.8t teams have won 3 times this year,more than the big buck M3 teams.

so go figure on why, but one thing is for sure it would be nice to see then run side by side more often.

that is a good question... i think it would be nice for audi to enter F1 with a diesel and shut up the people who are so jealus of it they look for every opportunity to make it look bad

And BTW: le Mans is far more chalenging than F1

And how is F1 working out for BMW, MB, and Toyota? Not sure but if I recall correctly they typically fare about middle of the pack. That is fine but where are the streetable lessons learned from F1. None of them are touting any that I am aware of.

BTW:
MB/McLaren is a distant 3rd in the standings 78 points back
BMW is an astounding 144 points back
Toyota is even worse 149 back in the pack

The only teams that fared worse didn't even qualify to run in all races.

So please don't tout these as winning efforts, they really aren't even close. In BMW and Toyota's case they are simply a cash drain. Only MB/Mclaren can be considered a contender in that arena.

Personally, I love F1, but I find the Endurance racing to be a little more exciting. Audi uses the Endurance racing to test technologies that will end up in the future in their street cars.
Porsche has not abandonned the Endurance races; they race in LMP2 with the RS Spyder.
Right now Endurance racing has more viewers than F1!!

Logical, funny how BMW/Toyota/Mercedes/Honda are all being whipped by Renault in F1. Toyota has been extremely embarrasing with almost no results but the biggest budget. This year Porsche already competes in the same races as Audi (in a lower class thougy, so does Mazda. Acura will join next year (in a lower class, but looking to move up to Audi's class a year later) Peugeot will compete directly with Audi next year with their own diesel. While I love F1, its technology is a bit far away form the real world. Audi was the first to put FSI (direct injection) on a turbocharged engine, that is technology directly from the all powerful Le Mans winning R8. BMW came late to the party with the same technology TWO years later. You still think that Audi isn't being smart and racing with the R8/10. Now Audi has used what they have learned in less than a year of competing with the R10 to make the best passanger diesel for sale. The Audi V12 TDI uses some R10 technology to make 500 hp and 738 pound feet of torque out of only 6 liters of displacement, that makes for amazing fuel economy (about 20 mpg combined compared to 14 in the Mercedes Benz M63 (also 500 hp but a gasser)