With his best time of 1m 47.308s, "Dindo Capello beat the track record which was set in 2002, and was less than a second slower than the fastest lap time of the car's successful predecessor, the R8 set during tyre testing last winter."
If the R10 is successful this could open the doors to even more diesel powered cars. These cars already have several advantages over their gas counterparts; namely variable geometry turbo chargers, faster refueling due to increased restrictor plate sizes, fuel economy and above all the higher energy content in the fuel.