The 2003 Le Mans winning car did have some R8C characteristics, as said by its own designer, a man called Peter something else.Originally Posted by Wouter Melissen
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The 2003 Le Mans winning car did have some R8C characteristics, as said by its own designer, a man called Peter something else.
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Yes a roof. Peter Elleray. The Radical SR9 also has Bentley Speed 8 characteristics. Does that make it a Bentley?
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Nope because unlike the Bentley the Radical didn't have help from Audi technicians, Audi drivers, Audi money, Audi engine. Even in 2003 Audi themselves didn't enter a works team, and instead told Joest to help Bentley.
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out of all these things, beginning with Audi, only the engine forms part of the car.....
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Is an Alfa Romeo P3 a Ferrari?
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And I have never seen an Audi R8 with a four litre V8.
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Yes but, and I'm guessing here, I think that development wouldn't have been so fast and so successful if Audi hadn't played a hand in it. I know it's cynical, but I can help thinking this Bentley operation is nothing more than a marketing exercise. I wish I was wrong.
Ok so it was enlarged, but it still was the "same" engine.
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All motorsport is a marketing exercise, but Bentley (VAG) did not go the easy way by repainting the R8...
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Yes but, in this case even more so. At least Audi was comitted in the long term. Bentley won and then was retired. In a way it reminds me of the Maserati MC12 operation.
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Hahahaha. Race on Sunday, buy on Monday really wasn't invented by Audi.
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Why? Was the Speed 8 illegal from the get go?
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Yes very...
No, in the rebadge, win and retire the factory team.
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that was what the marketing budget allowed.....they wanted a win and they got it. Aston won the GT1 class this year at LeMans. It was the factory team's only race and they will now send the winning car around the world to show it to the public. It is unlikely to race again this, as it had not done before LeMans...Yes very...
No, in the rebadge, win and retire the factory team.
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Didn't it race in the ALMS?
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What car did the Bentley share its chassis and engine with then? Three years is a very normal period for a racing program. The current Peugeot program is three years. The Maserati is still racing and in the only series it was accepted, full factory teams are not allowed. Does it really hurt that much to admit you are wrong for once?Yes very...
No, in the rebadge, win and retire the factory team.
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