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Old 01-16-2007 | 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by ltc
Thanks for the info.

Does anyone know if the Audi R10 has already been converted to a closed cockpit configuration as well?
It will have to be converted for 2010.

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Originally Posted by Nordschleife
Peugeot is a French manufacturer, rules will be bent, those are the Le Mans house rules.

Yes, aircon is compulsory, A little bird tells me that it will get hot in that car without it.

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The diesel rules were bent for the Audi R10.

Team Manager Serge Saulnier says the 908 won't have an A/C unit.

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Old 01-17-2007 | 08:42 PM
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June 2005: announce return in endurance.
October 2005: Beginning of work on the 908 with the arrival of Bruno Famin and the people already in place.
January 1, 2006: arrival of Paolo Catone, person in charge for the project.
March 2006: choice of the closed car and passage of the first one-cylinder engine to the bench.
April 2006: the first model passes out of blower.
July 2006: freezing of the definition of the hull of the car.
September 4, 2006: arrival of Serge Saulnier.
September 29, 2006: first passage of V12 to the bench.
December 22, 2006: the engine is installed and turns in the car.
December 31, 2006 with 8H46 of the morning after one night of work completed at 4 o'clock in the morning, Eric Hélary launched the 908 on the track of the air base of Villacoublay for his very first turns of wheel!

20,000 km of testing before Le Mans

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