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["Thompson Smith" <thompers@together.net>]

Listers...

Just the news we ALL wanted to hear!!!

Audi Sport has entered two factory R8's and BMW has two V12's LMR's entered
for the 1999 12hours of Sebring! (Confirmed from www.sportscarworld.com and
from Keith Anderson - talked with Mike Hoppen yesterday...) HUGE factory
race effort is going to happen at the 12hrs of Sebring this year. Not
confirmed yet is whether Audi will run the closed top GT1-P or open top
spyder LMP cars. Entering is one thing, but actually showing up from Germany
is another. We will see.
 
LeMans will see four Audi R8's - some with closed top and open top
configurations.

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http://www.sportscarworld.com/worldalm.htm

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from www.autosport.com

Audi puts the lid on

Audi has given the clearest indication yet that its British Le Mans team
could run a closed GT car in this year's race. Audi Sport UK boss John
Wickham has finally confirmed speculation that the German marque is working
on a GT1-P car to race alongside its open-top R8 sports racer. 
'There may be a car ready to run in 1999. It's part of Audi's plan to look
at that,' he said. Asked if Audi Sport UK would run two of the cars at Le
Mans in June, Wickham said, 'I'm not able to say. There are investigations
going on all over the place. We should know what car we will run in two
weeks.' 
Audi is facing a race against time to complete its GT1-P car at its new
manufacturing base in Norfolk. Audi Sport UK cannot swap between the GT1-P
and LMP sports racing classes after March 3 except in cases of 'force
majeure'. 
25/02/99

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Regards,

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