[s-cars] Video of an Audi 200 MTM at Nurburgring

[Mihnea Cotet]

I think it says on the Nuerburgring website that the car has the 6-spd and
engine from an RS2...

Mihnea

At 01:05 3/06/2003 -0700, Todd Phenneger wrote:
>HEY! IT's a 6-spd
>   Did anyone notice that right after 14:00 through the video on
>that long straight that he shifted into 6TH Gear!?!?  Where did
>that 6th Gear come from.  Man that thing is fast, the hood
>looked like it was ready to fly off. :-)
>   l8r
>       Todd
>
>--- Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:
> > >  > In case you have not seen it yet, there is a video of a
> > special Audi 200
> > >>  (MTMed) at the 24 hours of Nurburgring 2003:
> > >>
> > >>
> > <http://foto.nurburgring.de/web/2003/030601_r/MTM_Audi.wmv>
> >
> > At 9:08 PM -0400 6/2/03, motogo1 wrote:
> > >That is a GREAT ride!...thanks
> >
> > That is pretty sweet; I love the sound pulling out of the
> > pits!
> >
> >    Of interesting note is the TT zipping by the 200 like
> > nobody's
> > business on lap 2, turn 1- and a few turns later, that Porsche
> > cup
> > car just can't seem to out-accelerate the 200.  He's got the
> > 200 in
> > braking with 10+ years of braking technology on his side- he
> > brakes
> > MUCH later into the turn.
> >
> > The 200's certainly competitive against many of the newest
> > cars...those Mercs, for example, were hardly a challenge.
> >
> > He was slower than that red NSX- faster than the Jetta, some
> > sort of
> > 3-series sedan, the Merc(plus, 200's don't think they're
> > planes,
> > right? :-).  Then. some orange something-or-other blows by.
> > What was
> > that?  Couldn't make heads or tales of it.  What looks like a
> > Nissan
> > Skyline passes and disappears rather quickly.  I counted two
> > M3's,
> > one new gen, one older one, both passed handily.  Best has to
> > be near
> > the end though- he had that purple 911, but the guy wouldn't
> > let him
> > pass. The 200 driver even has a few words for him :-)
> >
> > Sigh...you know you're a flagging geek when you're spending
> > most of
> > the time looking for the flagging stations and if they've got
> > any
> > flags out.  I lost count of how many stations there were, and
> > they
> > were going by pretty quick :-)
> >
> > You also know you're an Audi nut when you're looking at the
> > shift
> > lever when he lifts to see if the tranny mounts are worn :-)
> > Wonder
> > what that annoying whine was...was very pronounced during
> > warmup and
> > slow speeds, not so much at speed.
> >
> > So the real question is, are there any pictures of this car?
> > I've
> > never seen a purple 200 race car.  Oh, and was it a 20v?
> > Sounded a
> > little like it might be, but the audio quality was pretty
> > so-so and
> > the exhaust was not exactly, uh, stock :-)
> >
> > B
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