The Data Is Feeding Directly Into New Road Cars
CAR UK|December 2017

Audi has moved to a full works effort to help it prepare its first electric road cars, as team boss Allan McNish explains.

Colin Overland
The Data Is Feeding Directly Into New Road Cars

ALLAN MCNISH is in limbo. We spoke to the endurance race legend in the gap between the final pre-season tests at Valencia and the start of the 2017-18 campaign in Hong Kong. So, Allan, are you ready?

‘You’re never ready. If you’re a driver or an engineer, we always want more time. But racing is the best deadline date. Either you’re good enough or you’re not.

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