OK. You need a conspricacy theory?

Audi was ordered by Peich to send a detuned Gallardo to AMS
to not upstage the 997TT.

What he did not count on was AMS's new "fat and lazy" category to sweep the competition.

In the next AMS uber coupe comparo the "450hp" Audi R8 will destroy all competitors for speed and butt room.