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Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan
Aston Martin DBR9's are said to be as fast or faster than the Audi R10  |
That one's definitely not true. The Audi R10 tops around 340 km/h on the Mulsanne Straight (and at around 330 km/h before the 2007 Tetre Rouge change), while the Aston numbers actually are around 310 km/h (and 300 km/h before 2007). And that's mostly because the prototypes indeed have much more powerful acceleration and get to higher speeds much quicker. Nobody really has much of a clue about Le Mans sporscars' theoretical top speeds, and they're really not relevant at all, but for sure, in terms of relevant top speeds (that is, the ones achieved on the circuit), the LMPs are exactly what they're called: another category.
Actually, the rumor you're talking about is, I guess, the one in 2005, when the privateer Audi R8s (not the R10s) were slowed down by regulations to such a degree that they were having some problems getting by the Astons on the straights at Le Mans, which was dramatized by some into the Astons being quicker than the Audis on the straights that year (the actual facts are that the 2005 R8 only did 318 km/h on the Mulsanne, which is anyway roughly 15 km/h faster than the Astons of the time, but also over 10 km/h slower than what the R8 did the previous years). And, again, the R10 is doing 340 km/h these days.