Audi R8 V10 Battles RS4 on a Ski Slope in Norway, Quattro Winter Sports Ensue

While earlier today we've shown you what a teenager can do with an F1 car wearing snow chains (that teen happens to be Red Bull's Max Verstappen, the youngest driver in Formula One), we are now moving into the grassroots motorsports area.

We're talking about a pair of Quattro Gmbh Audis battling it out on a ski slope in Norway. We're talking about an R8 V10, as well as an RS4 that seems to have been given a bit of a Group N rally car treatment.

"The R8 was deep frozen when I entered it that morning. The instruments showed that it was minus 32 degrees C and the starter turned a bit slower than usual. After just a second, all ten cylinders fired perfectly without any sputtering and a deep metallic sound exited the Akropovic tailpipes with a thick white steam giving clear evidence of the low temperature," the owner of the supercar explains.

Interestingly enough, the R8 had received its fair share of custom touches, lowering suspension included. As a result, we are talking about a machine whose ground clearance sits below 100 mm (3.94 inches) hitting the slope.

"We decided to drive a steeper slope than what we had seen in other video clips as we had studded tires. We tested with moderate speed the first part of the hill, including the descent which proved to be a bit challenging. After the first test run, we realized that we needed to build speed and momentum to climb the steeper part of the hill. I did not want to jump the R8, so I eased off the throttle over the first plateau, and had full power up the steep part and there were no problems for the quattros to negotiate the steep parts of the slope," the R8 driver says.

In case you're wondering about the temperature experienced by the pair of go-fast Audis during the filming, you should know the thermometer showed -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit).