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I don't think that Audi will be at any severe disadvantage at all, since TMG has to run the same size restrictor that Rebellion's Toyota engines do (if Rebellion ran one restrictor like TMG's engine does), and the R18 will still have a sizable torque advantage, being a diesel, and the fact that the diesel engine has so much more torque probably governed the choice to run the power to the front wheels.
That, and Audi at Sebring in '09 when they won was using about 10% less power in the R15 than the R10 a year earlier, and had a draggier car, but were still much faster than the R10 was at Sebring, and Audi was faster with a 6% power drop with the same car in testing in late '09/early '10 with the same basic R15 than they were that March.
Audi and Peugeot showed time and time again that no matter how much the ACO tried to ratchet the diesels or help out the gasoline/privateer contingent, they still went even faster than previously if anything, and I wouldn't expect anything different this time around.
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