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Audi Rue Smaller Fuel Tanks

Posted 24th July, 2007 in Audi | Leave a comment

Audi believe that if it wasn’t for the smaller fuel tanks they were running, they would have beaten the LMP2 Porsches at the Mid-Ohio race last weekend.

The cars with bigger tanks were able to take on less fuel later in the race, however, due to the smaller fuel tanks that diesel cars have to run, the Audis had to put more fuel in each time,

Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner led 67 of the 134 laps, after the race Werner said: “We lost the race in the pits. At the second stop we simply lost too much time during refuelling. That’s how the regulations are.”

Audi Sport North American team boss Dave Maraj commented: “This was quite an exciting race, but I’m a little bit disappointed that we weren’t able to get the overall victory. It’s quite obvious that the smaller fuel capacity is hurting us. Porsche were able to short fill and beat us twice out of the pits.”

[Source: Autosport]