I continue to hear from some on this board that the prototypes are in no way related to road-going cars but I repeatedly hear the factory teams make statements like this...
Wolfgang Ullrich, Audi’s sporting director, is in no doubt about the purpose behind the effort that has given his team 13 wins in the past 15 editions of the race. “For our company, the point of our participation in motor racing is the development of technology that can be passed on to our road cars,” he told L’Equipe this week.