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In Racer Magazine(from June or July 2004) reported that the "R9" as it was refered to by many at the time, was built in early 2004, but was scrapped when the design of the R10's engine was finalized. It now seems to me that it was probably more a testbed(and possibly a halfway house between the R8 and R10) than anything else. If only photos and detailed info exhisted about this stillborn/test bed prototype, but Audi AG isn't forecoming with this(at least until they retire the R10). Some have(due to the R10 using areo/styling cues from the Audi R8 and Bentley Speed 8, as well as an adaption of the latter cars's torsion bar suspension) even called the Bentley Speed 8 the "Audi R9".
So it seems that Audi called off the program(also sited in that article) due to the fact that the R8 was still competitive, and it made little sense to build a car that they'd only run(as a factory effort) for only a couple of years.
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