Audi R18 Revealed for 2016 Endurance Races – It’s More Powerful and Efficient

For the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Le Mans 24 Hours, Audi is emphasising focal areas in the 2016 season: The Audi R18 that has been redesigned from scratch has almost nothing in common anymore with its predecessor.

It features a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell, its hybrid drive system is battery-operated for the first time, the V6 TDI engine has been revised, and new system solutions have been added.

As a result, Audi’s LMP1 sports car is a vehicle that is more powerful and – once more – clearly more efficient than its predecessor.

While the new R18 is Audi’s strongest race car to date, it consumes less fuel than any of the generations before it.