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The record is 10 minutes with purpose-built cars with titanic power (in the range of ~1000HP) and huge turbos to compensate for lack of oxygen at altitude. An Audi TTS with its measly 270HP can't beat that:

> According to Audi, race officials said an expert driver in car like the TTS would complete the course in around 17 minutes.



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