How to Crash an Audi R8
April 10, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
First it was this Ferrari, than the Ferrari Enzo than a Bugatti Veyron, and now, Winding Road reports an Audi R8 (RS8 prototype to be precise) has crashed at Nürburgring. Its not a good year for supercars:
“With just hours to go on the last test day, the worst thing happened to the Audi test team. Just coming into the part Brünnchen at the Nürburgring, this million euro expensive Audi RS8 prototype caught fire and burned up totally. There is not much left of this super fast super car with a V10 engine.
The only thing revealing that it was the RS8 are the wheels and the mid-engine layout…
…The fire really took it all; nothing is left from the beautiful aluminium body. Just the roll bar survived the fire making the remainders of the car look like a skeleton. The fire was probably started by an oil or gasoline leak. But most important, the driver didn’t get hurt, according to our information.”
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Just interested in the above photos and i noticed on the back window it stated “Copyright Hans G Lehmann” and on the bonnet “Winding Road” so am i to assume the (Hans) is the driver and (Winding road) is the sponsor? Bit of a bummer about the fire i thought this car being as expensive as it is would be able to put itself out…Bugger!
Oh the humanity!!
So can this car still be considered a Low Emmision Vehicle, I can see a lot of carbon in those photos.
Hah yes
what a true and utter waste!
Are you for real 280?? Try the copyright on the photo’s instead. Bummer to lose such a weapon though.
theres nothing left holy shit what a bummer for audi i do really like the audi r8 it looks fantastic. the proto type is all gone. Do you think audi kept the car??
that’s a shame :( one brilliant car burnt out