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Alan McNish Races a Harrier Jump Jet with his Le Mans Audi R10
Monday, 04 September 2006
Alan McNish Races a Harrier Jump Jet with his Le Mans Audi R10
3 min 55 sec - 4-Sep-2006
Watch Alan McNish in his works built Audi R10 Le Mans car go head to head with an RAF pilot in a Harrier Jump Jet.
Jul 6, 2006
Audi's history-making 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 yesterday (6 July).
The actual Le Mans race winning Audi R10 TDI 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 annual Family & Friends Day 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.
The Audi, the first diesel-engined sportscar to win the famous Le Mans race, was quicker off the line - despite the R10 TDI being designed to start races from a “rolling” as opposed a “standing” start and faster to 150mph than the aircraft.
But the Harrier, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Pete Keenlyside, the 2006 Harrier display pilot, ultimately just beat the Audi to the 1km by literally a “nose” before the jet took off in a spectacular vertical climb. Read Original Story
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