Thursday 8th November 2012

Chris Harris video: GT2 RS vs Panigale part 2

In the second installment of Chris's car versus bike showdown Chris gives the 911 room for a fighting chance

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The rolling convoy of Porsche GT2 RS and Ducati Panigale runs the risk of not feeling part of the normal, human world. Both are so effortlessly fast that large quantities of self-control are needed to stop both rider and driver becoming the protagonists in some non-virtual racing game whose consequences are rather more serious than anything Codemasters has invented.

Round two - fight! And away they go...

Hold the Porsche’s throttle down to its stop for more than four seconds, at any speed, and you’re potentially in trouble. It’s even worse on the Panigale. So we ferried them sedately* from our meeting place to Bruntingthorpe, whereupon we set about shooting part two of this little tussle.

Part one ended with a resounding victory for the bike at Santa Pod, but I felt certain that above 140mph the car stood a good chance of redeeming itself.

We had to use a Panigale S this time, because the Tricolore’s exotic exhaust was louder than a Lightning.

It’s a short vid, but I hope you like it.

*Is this possible?

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[Dan gate master]

Now try it against a hayabusa.

[Dan gate master]

@ stu b, yeah the bike is all good,got another one too now.

Any ways a bmw s1000rr has done 202mph on that same runway from a standing start of recent, official speed trap recognised too.

[Dan gate master]

If you want to go silly b taxi, try bigcc turbo busa or the flying Dutchman with 267mph on that runway with a road legal bike.

A veyron won't do that and costs about 14 times that of the bikes mentioned,

My point is if you want to match the Porsche at least put it up against something abit more every day than the panigale.

[Dan gate master]

Velogee a Porsche gt2 is not exactly a veyron is it!

Put the Porsche up against a s1000rr or any delimited jap 4 cylinder hyper bike and it will get beaten on that runway, why are you surprised at bike being so quick? They weigh nothing (circa180kg) and make between 170 and 210hp these days .