On Thursday night, forward of the Monaco Formulation 1 Grand Prix, Audi made a shock unveiling of the Nuvolari supercar on the luxurious Cap Eden Roc resort in Antibes, within the south of France.
Named after Grand Prix legend Tazio Nuvolari, who loved nice success for Auto Union within the Thirties, it will likely be the quickest Audi of all time.
With 1,001 horsepower, a prime pace of over 350 km/h, energetic aerodynamics and an especially aggressive design, the model with the 4 rings has developed a automobile within the wake of its F1 entry that’s prone to be priced a number of tiers above the R8, its most up-to-date combustion-engine sports activities automobile.
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That is additionally steered by the restricted version of simply 499 models of the supercar, which is ready to be delivered as early as the primary half of 2027. However may the brand new mannequin additionally function the idea for a brand new GT3 automobile from Audi?
Identical engine because the Lamborghini Temerario
That might be fully conceivable, as a result of following the manufacturing halt for the Audi R8 in March 2024 and its GT3 by-product in November 2024, the Volkswagen subsidiary now as soon as once more has a supercar that might function a template.
And the engine can be completely suited to it as properly. The Nuvolari, which visually combines components of the electrical sports activities automobile Idea C, the R8 and the Lamborghini Temerario, includes a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine with 800hp, supported by two electrical motors on the entrance axle and one on the rear axle.
Given these efficiency figures, it is secure to imagine the automobile shares the identical platform because the Lamborghini Temerario, whose 4.0-litre V8 biturbo engine additionally delivers precisely 800hp at a torque of as much as 10,000 rpm.
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Audi’s subsidiary in Sant’Agata Bolognese used the in-house developed manufacturing engine for its GT3 automobile, albeit with smaller turbochargers and a redline of solely 8,000 rpm, as a result of the Steadiness of Efficiency (BoP) limits energy output anyway.
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Additional, the Temerario and its GT3 offshoot had been developed beneath the management of Lamborghini’s longtime Chief Technical Officer Rouven Mohr, who has held this place at Audi since March 1, 2026, and is taken into account a serious advocate of motorsports.
The speedy improvement of the brand new Audi supercar is probably going additionally linked to the truth that the model, following its entry into F1, was beneath stress to ship an absolute high-performance automobile for the highway as properly.
This might now profit the shopper racing division, which was scaled again to primary assist by the top of 2023 and had really fallen sufferer to the transfer into the premier class of motorsport. If Audi had been to really construct a brand new GT3 automobile, finalisation earlier than 2028 can be unrealistic, even with a shared platform with Lamborghini.
Ricardo Feller, Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3
Ricardo Feller, Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3
“R-Subsequent”: Audi had already deliberate a possible GT3 automobile
As Motorsport.com’s sister title Motorsport-Whole.com beforehand reported, Audi had a completed idea within the works a number of years in the past with the R-Subsequent, based mostly on the Temerario platform, which additionally included a GT3 mannequin.
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Nevertheless, the undertaking failed on the time resulting from inner disputes over whether or not a purely electrical sportscar or a hybrid supercar with an inner combustion engine was the appropriate path, leading to Audi Sport GmbH not receiving approval from Audi AG.
Simply how far alongside the plan already was, nevertheless, was demonstrated by a 1:1 scale design mannequin of the R-Subsequent, which is alleged to have appeared considerably extra progressive than the Audi R8.
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Additionally it is attention-grabbing on this context that the British automobile journal Autocar reported a yr in the past that Audi CEO Gernot Dollner was pushing ahead with the undertaking for an R8 successor and that there was an inner effort to develop FIA-homologated variations of a brand new R8 so as to reclaim a number one function in endurance racing.
With the entry into F1, the response to which is known to have considerably exceeded even Audi’s inner expectations, motorsports now has considerably extra momentum. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the German model can use this momentum to return to its former glory within the GT3 and sports activities automobile sectors as properly.
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