Audi TT-R in Jacarepagua, Brazil

[rpantoja0]

Hi all.
I had the pleasure (and luck) to see an Audi TT-R in front of me this month. It was at Jacarepagua Circuit (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) during saturday practice session for a race of the Brazilian Endurance Championship.
This TT-R was the one used by C. Abt in DTM (2001 season I think) and was brought to Brazil by Xandy Negrão (btw, his son Xandyinho Negrão is now competing in GP2 Series) a couple of years ago. It´s really fast (273 km/h on the straight at race) and has a great noise. The car crashed heavily on friday and didn´t go to the track on saturday. It started in the back of the row and won the race.
Sorry for the bad quality, it´s a Sony P-93...

http://rapidshare.de/files/2692595/Endurance_jacarepagua_Audi_TT-R_revving_05.MPG.html

Sunday: pit stop at race

http://rapidshare.de/files/2692734/Endurance_jacarepagua_Audi_TT-R_pit_stop_05__1_.MPG.html

still crashed in boxes:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6005/dsc00493crashed2rp3kx.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00493crashed2rp3kx.jpg)

now wiht rear spoiler:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7081/dsc005122bv3df.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc005122bv3df.jpg)

xandy negrão, the owner and driver:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1936/dsc00509xandynegro4tx6zy.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00509xandynegro4tx6zy.jpg)

Now viewing at the end of "Reta Oposta" (Oposit Straight), were the cars reduce to enter "Curva Sul" (notice two gears reduction).
Again, sorry about the quality. The noise isn´t as loud as reality. My dad is mad and didn´t lend me the Handcam... : :x

http://rapidshare.de/files/2693202/Endurance_jacarepagua_Audi_TT-R_great_downshift_at_curva_sul_05__1_.MPG.html

[a007apl]

HI, and welcome to JW family :D

[TT]

:!: thumbnails only from imageshack :!:

And you could put everything in a single post dude.. :!:

[Exige_240R]

thats nice, you were very lucky to see that! what kind of cars enter the brazilian endurance race? other than ex-DTM Audi TT-R's, which is still very cool

[rpantoja0]

Sorry about the layout... Newbie thing...

[TransAm]

Welcome to JW - nice pics as well 8)

[rpantoja0]

There´s also Porsches 996 racecars, F355 & F360 Challenge (last year), F550 GTC (this year, but didn´t race at Rio, damn it!), prototypes, old cars, M3, Audi S3, Clio 2.0, etc...
I´ll post more pics and vids soon.
Thanxs for the compliments. It´s my pleasure to share.
Rpantoja0

[rpantoja0]

Porsche 996 racecar:
http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/575/dsc004991nz.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc004991nz.jpg)

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/3227/dsc005177xj.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc005177xj.jpg)

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/636/dsc005168he.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc005168he.jpg)

Video of the 996 turning on and exiting pits. Again, the noise is really much lowder than in the video, really impressive:

http://rapidshare.de/files/2712119/Endurance_jacarepagua_Porsche_996__racecar__starti ng_and_exiting_pits_05__1_.MPG.html

[rpantoja0]

Almost forgot this one (tune up the volume!):

Porsche 996 racecar:

http://rapidshare.de/files/2712706/Endurance_jacarepagua_Porsche_996__racecar__pass_b y_05.MPG.html

ps: I also hate rapidshare (or megaupload, etc), but I don´t have other option... Hope you enjoy.
Rpantoja0

[stmoritzer]

Welcome to JW and thanks for the pics so far; rapidshare files in download queue