Audi to Challenge Peugeot, Acura, at Petit Le Mans

The Audi R15 TDI will return to America to take on Acura and Peugeot at the Petit Le Mans 1000-mile endurance race.

Dindo Capello pilots the race-winning Audi into the dusk at the Twelve Hours of Sebring. ALMS

Audi Sport Team Joest has announced that the Audi R15 TDI will return to America to take on Acura and Peugeot at Petit Le Mans, Road Atlanta’s thousand-mile endurance classis, on September 26.

Audi will bring two diesel-powered R15 sports racing cars, all driven by Le Mans veterans. Dindo Capello and Allan McNish, who won Sebring in 2006 and Petit Le Mans in 2007 and 2008, will drive one car; Lucas Luhr, and Marco Werner, the other. Petit Le Mans