The listing even says Audi would be happy to supply an engineer if you want to race it. This is the only working model in private hands, complete with its ECU and in fully functional condition.

Over at Arts & Revs, they're auctioning an actual 2011 Audi factory LMP1, their final pre-hybrid Le Mans-winning car. The Le Mans Prototype Challenge (shortened to LMP Challenge or LMPC) is a spec sports prototype formula created by the Automobile Club de lOuest (ACO), organisers of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and sports car constructor Oreca.The formula is intended as part of a ladder system for young and upcoming drivers into the world of endurance racing while also serving as a value engineered entry for. Still, if that's where 2021 finds you and you have pretty much infinite amounts of money you're struggling to spend, firstly we'd like to talk and secondly, allow us to recommend a purchase. You also need a garage full of experts, the kind of tires that cost a few thousand dollars each, and a race track to run any kind of prototype race car, let alone a factory LMP1, so even if it's technically classed as a sports car you'd have to be having a hell of a midlife crisis. The then-bleeding-edge prototype tech is still relevant to cars today, too, so they're typically squirreled away for the rare showing. There aren't many Audi Le Mans cars out in the wild, for a bunch of reasons: competing from 1999 until 2016, they won 12 times, and the car company is pretty proud of them.

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