RE: Ringside Seat: Ring testing shifts up a gear
Discussion
How wonderfully ironic, manufacturers developing faster more technologically advanced cars whose performance cant be used on modern roads (unless you are prepared to spend a great deal of money on fines and have many licences) booking all the available time at the principle venue where their unfortunate customers could actually have used the performance envelope of their machinery.
Hey ho, here we go on the road to nowhere.
Hey ho, here we go on the road to nowhere.
Ipelm said:
How wonderfully ironic, manufacturers developing faster more technologically advanced cars whose performance cant be used on modern roads (unless you are prepared to spend a great deal of money on fines and have many licences) booking all the available time at the principle venue where their unfortunate customers could actually have used the performance envelope of their machinery.
Hey ho, here we go on the road to nowhere.
As Turbo Sam said, despite what Top Gear would have you believe, it's not really chassis setup which is tuned at the 'Ring. There is some done I believe, but the majority of work is durability and fault finding. I read an article a good few years back questioning one of BMWs engineers about their presance there, and I seem to remember him saying that the 'Ring is the only place in the world where they can reach maximum transmission temperatures.Hey ho, here we go on the road to nowhere.
So despite all the media frenzy about the place, just because your next hot hatch or sports saloon has a 'Ring laptime quoted against it, it doesn't actually mean it's going to have had all it's chassis setup done there.
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