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Despite the fact a diesel-powered racer has never won the historic 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, Audi's pair of 650-hp oil burners will be sitting pretty on the front row this weekend after both posted the fastest qualifying times Thursday. Dindo Capello drove one of the R10 racers to the fastest time of 3 minutes, 30.466 seconds. Meanwhile, Marco Werner drove the other R10 to a time just 0.118 seconds behind his teammate. The next fastest qualifier was a full two seconds behind the Audis.

It seems as if Audi has a lock on Le Mans before the race has even started, so assuming the durability of the diesels is not a problem during the race, we think it'd be fun if Audi fills their tanks with french fry oil on the final pit just to gloat.

[Source: Audi Motorsport]

Le Mans front row full of Audi R10s originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After pasting up a new track record during qualifying, Audi's diesel-powered Audi R10 TDi racers went on to torque their way to first place in the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on Saturday.

The No. 2 Audi of Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello won the first race in on the 2006 American Le Mans Series schedule by three laps, besting the No. 37 Lola of Intersport Racing. This, despite starting the race from pit lane in 34th position after a heat exchanger failed.

The No. 2 car took the lead over their Audi teammates in the No. 1 machine around a third of the way through the race, after the latter was forced to retire with overheating issues.

This is reportedly the first time an oil-burner has claimed victory in a major American auto race.

[Sources: Backstretch Motorsports, RaceExpress]

Audi R10 TDi delivers glowing plug for diesel power with Twelve Hours of Sebring victory originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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