2016 Audi R18 & driver line up

Audi Sport‘s new R18 was unveiled a couple of days ago, and like Porsche, have announced they will only field two cars in next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Both manufacturers have cited cost reduction as their primary motives. Of course, both cars were pretty reliable during the 2015 race.

Audi will have the following drivers: Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluter and Marcel Fassler in the no 7 car and Loic Duval, Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Jarvis in the no 8.

2016 Audi R18 rear

For Porsche, Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley, and Timo Bernhard will co-drive one of the 919’s while the sister car will be driven by Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb.

Photo credit: RTL GP Magazine