At the week end at the Nurburgring 24-hour race a Privateer Race prepared Audi R8 is set to make its debut.

It isn’t, an Audi works car, but is instead being entered in the SP7 class by a German team called 24h-Project 2008: Blue-Tec. We have no idea what that name means and the team does not appear to have a website.

Its had its stock engine changed to race-spec four-litre engine putting out 530bhp and 353lb ft of torque… all in a car weighing just over a ton. Oh yes (as Jeremy Clarkson would say).

The race prepped R8 has lightened chassis, and features improved aero packages , high-mounted exhaust pipes and a diffuser.