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Race car of the CENTURY

1924-2024

IN ASSOCIATION WITH RICHARD MILLE

9 2000s AUDI R8

Wolfgang Appel, chief designer on the Audi R8 Le Mans Prototype, used to joke that work started on the car the morning after its predecessors failed to challenge the frontrunners at the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours. The reality was it was already on the drawing board by the time the respective performances of the R8R and R8C — one a roadster, the other a coupé as

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