R8, anyone?

[Motor Sport Visions Photography]

Ti Kan wrote:
>
> Motor Sport Visions Photography writes:
> > I can see the ebay description now: "Lightly driven for just a few hours
> > on weekends"
>
> If you read the text, it says that this car has been raced many times,
> and had sustained a few crashes too.

Actually, I did read the text. I meant what the description would
typically read on ebay. Sorry for the confusion, meant to be a joke.

I'm pretty sure it is the car Audi leased for the 2002 Sears Point ALMS
race (notice in the race history that Champion only ran the car in
2001). The really amazing part is after that very frightening shunt (the
shot I posted is one of a sequence on my site--it happened right in
front of me and was quite a scary moment) Pirro managed to make it
around almost a whole lap of Sears Point with the car looking like that
to the pits where Audi Sport NA/Joest Racing put the car back together
and finished the race!

Javad is right, it would be nice to see it not sit the rest of it's
years in a museum. Actually, for someone with a monster budget could be
towards the front of an ALMS field in 2003 with it perhaps--but it is
pretty worked I'm sure.

Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com