Audi R8 GT3 (2008): first official pictures

By Ben Pulman

First Official Pictures

27 August 2008 14:34

Just when you thought the R8 supercar couldn’t get any better, Audi unleashes a 500bhp-plus, rear-wheel drive GT3 version. But before you fling your hefty deposit at your local Audi dealer, beware this is an Audi Sport car destined to go racing. Porsche race car owners should be scared.

We’re afraid not. Instead the R8 GT3 is destined for various national and international race series around the world, where it will be matching up against cars from Porsche and Aston Martin. The first customer cars will be delivered in the next few months and the R8 GT3 is expected to make its competitive debut early in 2009.

‘Ever since the R8 was unveiled we’ve been inundated with enquiries about a race version,’ says Dr Wolfgang Ullrich, head of Audi Motorsport. ‘The R8 is the first production Audi bearing the name and genes of a successful racing sports car and is therefore an excellent base from which to build up our first big customer sport programme’.

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By Ben Pulman