FLORIDA—Audi has started preparations for the 2012 World Endurance Championship season with a weekend test at Sebring International Raceway.
Audi brought two diesel-powered R18Hs and half-a-dozen of its best drivers: 2011 Le Mans winners Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer, and 2008 24-Hour winners Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish.
According to SPEED.com’s John Dagys, the new versions feature revised cockpits for increased outward vision, and possibly hybrid power systems — something for which the R18 was originally designed, but not necessarily tested at Sebring.
