Evo's 8 minute crack at the Ring

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Gossip on another board suggests that evo's attempt at getting their E36 M3 GT round the Ring in eight minutes hasn't been altogether successful. I think 8:24 was mentioned with Dirk Schoysmann at the wheel.

I still maintain they'll need another 80-100bhp.

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And they're not talking BTG either! It makes one question the veracity of Schoysman's time in the Skyline R33 when they're having this amount of difficulty in a car that's "equally powerful" and a whole lot lighter.

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Nice to have an informed view on that one. Cheers.

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flemke said:

The NS laptime game has become rather farcical. That's a shame because, if it were done more scrupulously, we would have valuable benchmarks for assessing road cars.

I think you're right. Nobody can verify these claims and if what GuyR claims is true, some manufacturers will resort to openly abusing the spirit of the exercise.

All I know is that any car that can lap the full NS in anything less than 8:30 is a better and faster car than I ever need it to be!

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I think it'd count as a bit weaselly if they did move the goalposts like that to a 8min BTG target.

8:24 for a full lap is a second quicker than a stock Evo VII and two seconds faster than a Nissan 350Z, so that sounds quite slow. Dirk is an astonishing driver so there should be more to come from that car.

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True what you say about following other cars. Gav and Jo were doing their thing during the Astra VXR press launch so they could be sure the cars were as identical in specification as possible. Try using the same braking points and turn-in speeds as the clapped out old Golf in front of you and you could come a cropper. Properly set up suspension and R-tyres aren't always obvious in the heat of the moment!