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- Aug 3, 2003
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- 2003 Jetta TDI wagon, silver; 2003 Jetta TDI wagon, indigo blue; 2003 Golf GL 5-spd, red (PARTED); 2003 Golf GLS 5-spd, indigo blue (SOLD); 2003 Jetta TDI wagon, Candy White (SOLD)
from Autoweek:
The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) has revealed teams' driver nominations for the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, scheduled for the weekend of June 16-17.
The list confirms that one of the two new factory-backed Audi R18 E-tron quattro turbodiesel-electric race cars, entered by Audi Sport Team Joest, will be driven by last year's Le Mans winners, André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer. The other car will be driven by seven-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello.
These hybrid four-wheel-drive LMP1 cars will be backed up by conventionally powered Audi R18 ultras for Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval and, in the Audi Sport North America entry, Mike Rockenfeller, Oliver Jarvis and Marco Bonanomi.
Audi's new main opposition (after Peugeot's withdrawal), Toyota Racing, will operate two Toyota TS030 Hybrids driven by Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima, and by Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and a third driver yet to be identified.
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http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120523/alms/120529909#ixzz1vqeoeWU8
The cars are changing, the main opposition is different, but the drivers are mostly the same as last year, and the year before, and the year before that....
The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) has revealed teams' driver nominations for the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, scheduled for the weekend of June 16-17.
The list confirms that one of the two new factory-backed Audi R18 E-tron quattro turbodiesel-electric race cars, entered by Audi Sport Team Joest, will be driven by last year's Le Mans winners, André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer. The other car will be driven by seven-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello.
These hybrid four-wheel-drive LMP1 cars will be backed up by conventionally powered Audi R18 ultras for Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval and, in the Audi Sport North America entry, Mike Rockenfeller, Oliver Jarvis and Marco Bonanomi.
Audi's new main opposition (after Peugeot's withdrawal), Toyota Racing, will operate two Toyota TS030 Hybrids driven by Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima, and by Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and a third driver yet to be identified.
(end of excerpt)
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120523/alms/120529909#ixzz1vqeoeWU8
The cars are changing, the main opposition is different, but the drivers are mostly the same as last year, and the year before, and the year before that....