Welcome to the fastest Audi road car in history – and not just by our usual parameters. **evo** was there to witness the covers being pulled from the brand-new Nuvolari supercar just 405 days after an ‘outstanding idea’ was first raised with CEO Gernot Döllner. 

He quickly commissioned a joint design, engineering and aerodynamics team and the finished car – this is no mere concept – has just been shown to the public ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. You didn’t expect [Audi](https://www.evo.co.uk/audi) to produce an ultra-high-performance hybrid and *not* link it to its shiny new Formula 1 programme, did you?

Just don’t call it a reborn [R8](https://www.evo.co.uk/audi/r8/205283/audi-r8-v8-2007-2015-review-the-porsche-911s-equal-is-a-bargain-super-sports-car), even if it too shares fundamental components with a contemporary [Lamborghini](https://www.evo.co.uk/lamborghini), in this case the Temerario. Limited to 499 units and priced from £500,000, the Nuvolari treads uncharted ground for Ingolstadt and sits much further apart from its Italian cousin than either of the mid-engined sports cars that preceded it.

Its rapid development is an example of the ‘think faster, act bolder’ mentality that Audi wants to blanket across its entire operation as its famed ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ philosophy returns to help fend off swelling Chinese competition. Calling upon decades of performance car expertise and applying the name of a legendary Auto Union racing driver to the resulting product is certainly one way to assert your heritage.

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