This Audi R8 Driver Probably Needed Fresh Underwear After This Nurburgring Slide

While the R8's Quattro all-wheel system does give amazing grip in the wet, there is still a limit to what it can do in soaking conditions like these...
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We’ve been lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time with Audi’s new R8 this year, and while we’ve been impressed with the ridiculous amounts of grip on offer whatever the conditions, there is a limit to what you can get away with in the wet. Particularly if you’re driving on a sopping wet Nordschleife like this guy.

Fortunately, after a slide and a violent snap he’s still just about on the tarmac, avoiding what would have been one of the most expensive touristenfahrten crashes we’ve seen this year. As for the state of his underpants, we can only speculate…

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Sanjuro Makabe

Saved by electronic aids.

10/04/2016 - 16:51 |
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Audi Sport R8 LMS RWS quattro Sport Plus Ultra Evolution

Mainz!!

10/04/2016 - 17:28 |
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Tyler Holderman

One of the most expensive? You seem to forget someone crashed a Koenigsegg One:1 earlier this year lol.

10/04/2016 - 17:48 |
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One of…

10/04/2016 - 22:35 |
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StuttgartMadness

TC kicked in yo

10/04/2016 - 18:46 |
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Anonymous

Eurobeat intensifies

10/04/2016 - 18:59 |
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Anonymous

Try that in an “analog” car …

10/04/2016 - 19:33 |
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TheMindGarage

If that was a Challenger Hellcat, it’d have done that even in the dry. And this is what the fanboys probably say:

10/04/2016 - 19:52 |
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Anonymous

This is the answer why he did not crash

10/05/2016 - 03:40 |
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The Stig 4

Initial D stage 6 be like:

10/05/2016 - 04:06 |
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specialmustangs

Pffftttt. Traction control saved him. Turn it off, see how far you get! 😂🐄🐄

10/05/2016 - 06:05 |
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