Audi R10 TDI

The Audi R10 TDI is a sports prototype designed and built by Audi in partnership with Dallara to the Le Mans Prototype 1 rules. It was unveiled in Paris on 13 December 2005 and went on to win the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans only 200 days later, the first win there by a diesel powered car, and it took three Le Mans victories in all. It replaced the open cockpit R8 LMP, keeping the R8 carbon fibre monocoque with aluminium honeycomb but using a carbon fibre composite body to cope with the extra weight of its twin turbocharged V12 diesel engine. Fed by a Bosch common rail system, that engine produced over 478 kW (650 PS) and 1,100 N m of torque. The R10 gave way to the R15 TDI at the end of the 2008 American Le Mans Series, and the Kolles team ran the car for two more years at Le Mans and for 2009 in the Le Mans Series.