In the magazine: Audi's hybrids on a Le Mans high
This week's AUTOSPORT magazine goes behind the intra-Audi battle at Le Mans to find out how the pair of R18 e-tron quattros gave the manufacturer an historic 24 Hours one-two for hybrid technology
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Not content to have won 10 of the past 12 Le Mans 24 Hour enduros with petrol and diesel power - and in both open-top and coupe chassis - Audi came to the 80th edition of the race with revolutionary technology in its arsenal. The hybrid e-tron quattro R18s were equipped with power-boosting energy-recovery systems that had only competed once in the run-up to the toughest race of them all.
But that didn't stop the German giant taking an historic one-two, with Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer heading home Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish.
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