Mr. VM may be talking about an R10, but is he talking to Audi about an R10? I would imagine that they would be even less inclined to ahve the R10 in private hands than they were with the R8, and they were already extremely choosy there. Given that the R8 ran in customer hands either against factory R8s or as semi-factory entries, there was never any chance of an older model beating a newer one (except in chassis age) and the privateers kept up Audi's honour during their 'break' from works campaigning, you know, the one where Juttner et al. kept on showing up everywhere anyway... In this case, if they do replace the R10 with a new P1, having the R10 beat it might well be against Audi's interests.
But hey, if VM can get one, good on him! They've done well (which is a credit to Equipe Verschurr as much as anyone).
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