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Audi has elected to send two R18 e-tron quattro cars to this year's 61st 12 Hours of Sebring.
Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer and Oliver Jarvis will drive one, and Lucas di Grassi, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish will driver the other, as they bid to give their team a last LMP1 victory.
Last because the LMP1 class will be deleted in 2014, as the American Le Mans Series, which hosts the 12 Hours of Sebring, and Grand-Am merge.
"We're in for a very emotional race weekend," admitted Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, head of Audi Motorsport. "Sebring is where Audi's sports car era that has been so successful began.
"We expect that with two current hybrid models we'll be battling for overall victory[.]"
A victory which would bring Audi's total to 11.
Furthermore, driver Kristensen, who holds the record for the most wins at Sebring, will be trying to lay hands on his seventh.
Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer and Oliver Jarvis will drive one, and Lucas di Grassi, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish will driver the other, as they bid to give their team a last LMP1 victory.
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| Photo: Audi Motorsport |
Last because the LMP1 class will be deleted in 2014, as the American Le Mans Series, which hosts the 12 Hours of Sebring, and Grand-Am merge.
"We're in for a very emotional race weekend," admitted Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, head of Audi Motorsport. "Sebring is where Audi's sports car era that has been so successful began.
"We expect that with two current hybrid models we'll be battling for overall victory[.]"
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| The Sebring 12h enjoy a great reputation in the huge American sportscar fraternity. (Photo: Audi Motorsport) |
A victory which would bring Audi's total to 11.
Furthermore, driver Kristensen, who holds the record for the most wins at Sebring, will be trying to lay hands on his seventh.
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| In the 2000 season, Audi celebrated its first sportscar victory with the R8 at Sebring. (Photo: Audi Motorsport) |