Porsche starts much sooner than planned with the test work on the LMP1 prototype for the 24h Le Mans 2014 . Today was the rollout in Weissach. Actually, the Volkswagen Group has no reason to act, because the 24-hour race of Le Mans play the Wolfsburg and their daughters for years a very important role: Since 2000, there have been with Peugeot only one overall winner who is not in a Audi and Bentley sat - twelve victories are the impressive result of this millennium.
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Besides Toyota , Audi will get in the coming year as well as in-house competition, because for Le Mans in 2014 is currently a Porsche LMP1 prototype built. Nor is the development in its early stages, a first test vehicle has completed but today at the Porsche test track in Weissach its rollout.
Works drivers Timo Bernhard was allowed under the watchful eyes of several Porsche executives make a first function check with his new company car and was then satisfied: "The car feels great now on!" With today's rollout of the Swabians have undercut their own schedule, actually the first test meters should be completed in a few weeks. For the development and testing of this time bonus can only be good.
Whether there is sufficient time to provide the blessed with a great advantage in experience Audi team, the end, we will find out in a few months - but surely now is, that the endurance classic from 2014 is even more exciting.