JAXRS6
March 21st, 2005, 06:32
I was just reading an American Le Mans Series brochure that came with my Sebring tickets. In explaining the classes it says the following:
"LMP1: Premier high-tech Le Mans prototypes feature exotic purpose-built race cars...."
My Webster's first definition of prototype is "an original model on which something is patterned." So what has the six-year-old R8 been a prototype for? If Audi was going to pattern a production car after the R8, what car would that be?
Nordschleife made it clear in a post elsewhere that there is scant if any resemblance between the R8 and the possibly forthcoming Le Mans production car. So if it's not the Le Mans, what is it? Or is the "prototype" reference just hype -- a way to build one-off race cars with no intention of following thru on the production side?
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"LMP1: Premier high-tech Le Mans prototypes feature exotic purpose-built race cars...."
My Webster's first definition of prototype is "an original model on which something is patterned." So what has the six-year-old R8 been a prototype for? If Audi was going to pattern a production car after the R8, what car would that be?
Nordschleife made it clear in a post elsewhere that there is scant if any resemblance between the R8 and the possibly forthcoming Le Mans production car. So if it's not the Le Mans, what is it? Or is the "prototype" reference just hype -- a way to build one-off race cars with no intention of following thru on the production side?
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