A 2015 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro from the automaker’s penultimate 12 months within the prime class on the 24 Hours of Le Mans is up on the market at London dealership Joe Macari. No value is listed, so if you need to ask, properly, the remaining.
Audi used the R18 title for a sequence of race vehicles from the 2011 to 2016 seasons, after which the automaker ended its Le Mans marketing campaign. The R18 TDI Extremely got here first, showing in 2011 because the successor to the Audi R15 TDI. The hybrid R18 E-Tron Quattro raced alongside the TDI Extremely in 2012, after which changed it as Le Mans rules shifted from LMP1 to LMP1-H (for hybrid) as the highest class.
The automotive presently up on the market is the much-evolved 2015 model of the R18 E-Tron Quattro. It options important aerodynamic modifications, together with larger dive planes and enormous air inlets on the entrance wheel arches that required the crash construction to be re-tested, in line with the itemizing. Different modifications included new aspect pods with reworked radiator openings to enhance cooling, and totally different rear-end bodywork designed to scale back drag.
2015 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro (photograph by way of Joe Macari)
A turbodiesel 4.0-liter V-6 sends 550 hp to the rear wheels, and an electrical motor sends 268 hp to the entrance wheels. That gave the R18 E-Tron Quattro all-wheel drive, however solely intermittently, as the electrical energy wasn’t at all times out there.
The automotive up on the market is chassis 416, which was pushed by Lucas di Grassi, Loïc Duval, and Oliver Jarvis. We all know the trio completed fourth general on the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, which noticed Porsche take victory for the primary time since 1998. However the itemizing solely mentions chassis 416 being entered in that 12 months’s 6 Hours of Fuji, 6 Hours of Shanghai, and 6 Hours of Bahrain, which had been additionally a part of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) that 12 months. The automotive completed fourth at Fuji and Shanghai, and sixth on the Bahrain race.
Audi gained each 24 Hours of Le Mans between 2011 and 2014, and most going again to the flip of the century, however hasn’t gained since. The automaker will return to Le Mans with an entry for the brand new LMDh class in 2023.
