I've been over to Spain to drive the new Audi R8 V10, and as you can imagine, 500+bhp from a yowling V10 and over 300kph, all wrapped-up in that slick 'n' sliding, carbon-encrusted supercar shape is about as much fun as you can have without back seats! A truely stunning car from every angle and you can read the full road-test in the May edition of RubberDuck Magazine. While you're waiting you can check out these blog shots I snapped on RubberDuck's new Cannon video camera. It's a neat little box of tricks and shoots us some great vids with great sound. It also takes pictures, and thanks to its 'long' lens and video-biased recording, the shots come out a little different to the stuff I usually shoot on my Nikon D70 SLR. The sun always flares and everything has a really hard edge to it. I kinda like it.
Now that's what I call a mouth-watering sight - a big rack of fresh and juicy R8 V10s all lined-up at the Ascari racetrack, ready for a sound thrashing. Ascari is a beautiful little spot tucked away in the countryside outside Marbella, owned by a rich chap who just loves his motors. I could've stayed there all day, but security were having none of it.
Adding to my excitiment like a huge birthday cake with a girl inside was a liberal sprinkling of special Audi racers, including this R8 LMS. The extra aggression injected along with its racing pedigree makes this the ultimate bad-boy R8. Black O.Z rims, carbon fibre spiltters, mirrors and rear spoiler all shave the weight, and double the drool factor.
Audi's Le Mans racer, Tom Kristensen, was also knocking around with his own slightly boy-d-up R8, featuring some big stickers, bucket seats, a roll cage, air jacks, slick tyres over O.Z rims, and a cheeky nip of a rear spoiler - other than that it was factory stock. The plan was to dish out some hot passenger laps, but the car developed a sickly gearbox and skulked off for an early bath.
And, as luck would have it, it turned out that there was a girl in the huge birthday cake. Her name was Manila and she looked cool in pictures.
I've been over to Spain to drive the new Audi R8 V10, and as you can imagine, 500+bhp from a yowling V10 and over 300kph, all wrapped-up in that slick 'n' sliding, carbon-encrusted supercar shape is about as much fun as you can have without back seats! A truely stunning car from every angle and you can read the full road-test in the May edition of RubberDuck Magazine. While you're waiting you can check out these blog shots I snapped on RubberDuck's new Cannon video camera. It's a neat little box of tricks and shoots us some great vids with great sound. It also takes pictures, and thanks to its 'long' lens and video-biased recording, the shots come out a little different to the stuff I usually shoot on my Nikon D70 SLR. The sun always flares and everything has a really hard edge to it. I kinda like it.
Now that's what I call a mouth-watering sight - a big rack of fresh and juicy R8 V10s all lined-up at the Ascari racetrack, ready for a sound thrashing. Ascari is a beautiful little spot tucked away in the countryside outside Marbella, owned by a rich chap who just loves his motors. I could've stayed there all day, but security were having none of it.
Adding to my excitiment like a huge birthday cake with a girl inside was a liberal sprinkling of special Audi racers, including this R8 LMS. The extra aggression injected along with its racing pedigree makes this the ultimate bad-boy R8. Black O.Z rims, carbon fibre spiltters, mirrors and rear spoiler all shave the weight, and double the drool factor.
Audi's Le Mans racer, Tom Kristensen, was also knocking around with his own slightly boy-d-up R8, featuring some big stickers, bucket seats, a roll cage, air jacks, slick tyres over O.Z rims, and a cheeky nip of a rear spoiler - other than that it was factory stock. The plan was to dish out some hot passenger laps, but the car developed a sickly gearbox and skulked off for an early bath.
And, as luck would have it, it turned out that there was a girl in the huge birthday cake. Her name was Manila and she looked cool in pictures.
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