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UNBEATABLE? All-conquering Audi is bringing its new diesel to Le Mans for the first time.(News)
Byline: GARY WATKINS
Can anyone beat the new Audi R10? That's the question on everyone's mind leading up to the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hour. The revolutionary new turbodiesel racer proved it had the speed and reliability to win big sports car races when it dusted the competition at Sebring in March. And that was when the car was more or less unproven over anything more than 25 laps. An extensive test and development program later, it should be unbeatable.
Or not.
The R10 had little in the way of race-long opposition at the American Le Mans Series opener and was barely under any kind of pressure at any point. Le Mans will be a different story altogether. The reason? The Pescarolo Sport team.
Last year Henri Pescarolo should have added a Le Mans win as a team owner to the four wins he claimed as a driver. Only a minor mechanical glitch on one car and the kamikaze tendencies of one of his drivers in the other prevented the French team from vanquishing the Champion Audi squad.
Pescarolo knows 2005 was his big chance, but he reckons the window of opportunity has yet to be slammed shut.
"If their reliability is good [then] we have no chance,'' says the 63-year-old Pescarolo. "I am quite confident our car will be reliable, so we have to be close to them if they have any reliability concerns.''
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