<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the Audi Press Release:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe R8 is the first production Audi bearing the name and genes of a successful racing sportscar and is therefore an excellent base from which to build up our first big customer sport programme,\u201d explains Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich. \u201cEver since the R8 was unveiled we\u2019ve been inundated with enquiries about a race version. With the Audi R8 we will offer customers a racing sportscar equipped with high-calibre technology and the typical Audi qualities, but which is nevertheless easy to handle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m waiting to see if this breeds a new street version with a bump in power and some other goodies.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cR8 GT3\u201d – That\u2019s how. Audi Motorsports pulled the cover off their new entry into the 2009 Season, and unveiled perhaps the sexiest car in competition. According to the Audi Press Release: \u201cThe R8 is the first production Audi bearing the name and genes of a successful racing sportscar and is therefore an excellent base […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RvpU-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rpmsuperstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}