Nurburgring in under 5 minutes possible?

[Vyse]

After watching old Nick tip toe around the ring a few years ago, it was estimated by the BMW engineers a full time attack would be in the region of 5:20. If you could find the most suicidal of drivers, along with the best F1 car, setup so that it was perfect for the track, would a sub 5 minute be possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA2yYohW1Vs

[Vyse]

If you fit a F2004 with some modern day slicks that should help a considerable amount.

Vitorio said:

Someone like schumacher, raikkonen or montoya in their 2004 state and cars would be a good shot, pretty much every lap record on a non-new F1 track is a 2004 car

But the gap between a 2004 and a 2007 F1 car on melbourne is only a second or so, extrapolate that to the Ring, and you are looking at 5-6 secs faster then BMWs presumed 5:20

[Vyse]

st, just done some quick maths. To lap the ring in 5 minutes you would need to average 273mph. Surely this cant be right.

[Vyse]

The same calculation would equal 440km/h.

V8FGO said:

Correct, I think that would be kph, not mph, which would be around 148 mph average.

[Vyse]

Your right. For some dopey reason I had the track length at 20.8 miles instead.

Gad-Westy said:

My understanding is that the record times reference the 12.9 miles Nordschleife configuration.

12.9 miles in 5 minutes is 2.58 miles per minute which equals 154.8 mph or 250 kmh

[Vyse]

In terms of absolute speed and acceleration the current F1 cars are still miles behind the 2004/5 cars. A high speed circuit like Monza is best for showing the difference.

As the ring is also a high speed circuit I think the gap between a 2016 and 2004/5 on it would surprise some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUtNwm4qIpc