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Old 20 Oct 2006, 15:35 (Ref:1743245)   #55
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JAG should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridJAG should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridJAG should be qualifying in the top 3 on the grid
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Originally Posted by Mal
I am with the camp that says we need to see a real manuafacurer developed petrol competitor to judge. My guess is that if Audi had put the same money into developing a new regs petrol car it would be faster than the R10 - I dont think the R10 is any faster than an unrestricted R8 would be
The performance gap at Le Mans between the R10 and PRIVATEER petrol cars was 3.2 seconds.

Does anyone seriously doubt the gap would be any less than 2.2 seconds with a turbo petrol R10?

The R10 seemed to be held back in qualifying, not so in the race.
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