Only The Stig Could Make The Audi R8 Dance Like This
We spent a surprising amount of time in Audi R8s last year. After trying the V10 Plus, the standard V10 coupe and finally the Spyder, we reckon we have a fairly good idea of how these things handle.
The R8 is a grippy, tied down sort of car, and prone to understeering on the limit, oversteering only when you take some brave pills and nudge the rear out with an heavy application of V10 power.
But here’s the thing: we’re ordinary human beings. Racing drivers are a rather different breed, and with a certain chap called Stig installed behind the wheel of this R8 V10 Plus, Audi’s mid-engined supercar is made to dance around Top Gear’s endangered Dunsfold test track in a rather beautiful way.
Granted, it’s not the most oversteer-infused Stig lap we’ve ever seen, but it’s an excellent display of commitment and driving skill.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I could do that as well.
A ladies man
Am I the only one that commented his cornering with Jeremys Clarksons accent ? Specially And he cross the line !!! at the end :D
Some say the Audi R8 likes to dance for Stig
The parts where he’s got the wheel turned 90 degrees AND is giving it WOT just makes my cringe at the thought of what would be a totally understeery catastrophe in my own car.
Its not the Stig. Thats Michael Schumacher!!!! XD
… Bruh ._.
This is what sliding a R8 V10 means, not that video
Am I being blind here: where’s the gear indicator?