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Rolex- any Audi's running? I tuned in briefly but didn't see any. Why is that?

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Old 02-06-2005, 04:22 AM
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Default Rolex- any Audi's running? I tuned in briefly but didn't see any. Why is that?

I thought they owned endurance events?
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Default I went to the rolex and there was an A4 running in

the grand am cup. b5 a4. They run stock everything, yep including little k03s and stock intercooler. The team owenr and I spoke for a while. Nice guy. He said that they don't like, rolex, awd and turbo.

The Audi, believe it or not was neck and neck with this rsx and in the turns the audi would own it but on the straights the acura would take it. I was in the pitts and the driver came out and was talking to team owner and said "we need about 10 more hp to keep up with the acuras on starights."
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Default Rolex prototypes aren't at all like the R8. ALMS and LMES allow the R8...

...so it's much easier to run those two series and skip Rolex. That being said, I've always been surprised that they don't enter an S4 or something else in the GT class. There are some M3s in that class...
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Did you meet their chief mechanic, Neil Deye? His shop is in Eastern Pa.
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Why don't we nominate someone from the forum to represent us next year?
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You are kidding right? Our cars are too unreliable/heavy to compete with those cars for 24 hours!
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Default If it were a factory team, I'd expect them to run the current model...

And in case you missed it, Audi did pretty well in Speed GT with the B5 S4 a few years ago...
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I agree, but the gt races were no 24 hours!
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