Audi Sport’s new GT4 race car was star of its NY International Auto Show
Enlarge / The new Audi R8 LMS GT4 car. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
Video shot and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
NEW YORK-Audi Sport is to Audi what M is to BMW or AMG to Mercedes-the tuning arm, the skunk works where cars go to lose weight, gain power, and find extra speed for the track. The US is a big market for Audi Sport, and the brand had several models on display at this year's New York International Auto Show. There was the TT-RS and the brand new RS5 Coupe, but for us the real star of its stand was a new racing car, the R8 LMS GT4.
Audi Sport customer racing is separate from the factory backed efforts in DTM and the now-shuttered World Endurance Championship program, and you can actually buy these cars to run yourself. The new GT4 car fits into a gap between the RS3 LMS-a front-wheel drive touring car-and the R8 LMS GT3.
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