Audi's diesel-powered R10 TDI sports-prototype, which won the Le Mans 24 Hours last month, came close to beating a Harrier GR7 "Jump Jet" multi-role combat aircraft in a race at RAF Wittering in England.
The actual Le Mans race winning car with Scotsman Allan McNish at the wheel sped down a taxi-way racing a Harrier aircraft on an adjacent runway from a standing start in a one-kilometre race.
The contest, staged at the RAF base near Peterborough in front of a 5,000 crowd, ended in a close victory for the Harrier - by one-tenth of a second.
Brian Byrne.
