audisport sighting

[Jens]

Hi there!

I always thought MA would be Massachusetts! Only joking.
Well, I do know that Maastricht is not in Germany and I know that it is
in the Netherlands.
(Hi Tom!). I further know that if it was a German truck, than it comes
from Mannheim.
Don't be ashamed, at least you got the right continent. ;)
Oh, by the way: I thought the '00 Audis are now called simply R8, not
R8C and R8R like '99. And besides that, they only use roadsters (R) now,
no Coupés (C) anymore. Or did I miss anything? The races are not very
well promoted here in Germany, that is really a pitty.

CU
Jens

> From: hah at srv.net
> Subject: audisport sighting
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:01 +0100
> 
> Haudi,
> 
> Yesterday I saw two Audi Sport Team Joest tractor-trailers (presumably
> with R8Cs #77 and #78 on board) and a small shuttle van (do they pick up
> the drivers from the airport with it?) on I-80 just east of Evanston,
> Wyoming. Presumably they were enroute from Texas to Portland, after the 1-2
> finish in Texas - caught the last 40 minutes or so of NBC's coverage in my
> hotel while at a bike race in Casper.
> 
> One transporter (the first one passed) was a Mercedes-Benz with German tags
> - what's the MA region, Maastricht is the only thing that pops to mind...
> Prompted me to wonder what sort of hoops (ala S2-import-musings) were
> required to drive this on our fine USofA public roads... The second was a
> more US-normal Volvo/WhiteGMC rig. Shuttle van looked kind of odd as well,
> but I was by it too fast to really notice. Oops.