1999 Audi R8R

In May 2001 Audi brought an Auto Union C-Type and a D-Type to the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park. They also brought several other cars and motorcycles that day, including the one shown below.

It’s the Audi R8R of 1999, a prototype which competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year, the two cars finishing in third and fourth places, though the two R8C closed cockpit cars in the LMGTP class failed to finish the race. It’s pictured on the stretch between the Old Hairpin and McLean's Corner during one of the demonstration runs.

1999 Audi R8R

In May 2001 Audi brought an Auto Union C-Type and a D-Type to the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park. They also brought several other cars and motorcycles that day, including the one shown below.

It’s the Audi R8R of 1999, a prototype which competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year, the two cars finishing in third and fourth places, though the two R8C closed cockpit cars in the LMGTP class failed to finish the race. It’s pictured on the stretch between the Old Hairpin and McLean's Corner during one of the demonstration runs.

Audi R8 & R8R

On 24 May 2016 I showed photographs of the 1999 Audi R8R and 1980 Audi R8 at Donington Park at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting in May 2001. Here are photographs of the two cars during one of the demonstration runs that day on the stretch between the Old Hairpin and McLean's Corner.

This is the 1999 Audi R8R, two of which competed in the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hour race finishing in third and fourth places. It has a 3,596 cc twin-turbo V8 engine.

This is the 2000 Audi R8, developed from the previous year's R8R and powered by the same 3.6 litre V8 engine. The R8 competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race six times, from 2000 to 2005, winning on 5 occasions and being beaten only in 2003 - by the Bentley Speed 8.

Audi

On 2 December 2012 I showed some photographs of the Auto Union C-Type and D-Type which Audi brought to the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001. Audi brought several other cars and motorcycles that day, including the two shown below.

This is the Audi R8R of 1999, a prototype which competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year, the two cars finishing in third and fourth places, though the two R8C closed cockpit cars in the LMGTP class failed to finish the race.

This car is the Audi R8, a redevelopment of the previous year's car, and it finished in the first three places in the 2000 Le Mans race which it won again in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Here are the two cars during the demonstration run, photographed from the inside of Coppice Corner.