New FWD lap record of the 'Ring

[CarlT]

The Megane RS 265 Trophy has just set a new FWD lap record of the 'Ring - 8m 07.97s.

[Pete182cup]

10 seconds quicker than the r26r without using r888's, tres bien!

[CarlT]

[wackojacko]

If so that is quite an achievement..... Still think the new gen of Megane look Fugly.

[DannyVTS]

Love the new megane, would be my pick of the bunch of the current hot hatches.

What's the retail on a Focus RS? I think the meganes are around £26k? Of which you'll lose 10k in a year

[y2blade]

CarlT said:

The Megane RS 265 Trophy has just set a new FWD lap record of the 'Ring - 8m 07.97s.

getting a Renault to run for more than 5mins at any one time is one hell of an achievement


good work

[mazdajason]

I went round knockhill in one of these at teh scottish motor show - to say I was impressed would be an understatement.

[EVLXGE]

Anyone know what tyres they were running?

[CarlT]

EVLXGE said:

Anyone know what tyres they were running?

Bridgestone RE050A on the 19" wheels

[Pete182cup]

Bridgestone potenza re050a on 19's

Sorry for the echo!!

[harryowl]

Has an RS500 set a time?

[papercup]

harryowl said:

Has an RS500 set a time?

It'll be slower, like the last one was.

[CarlT]

harryowl said:

Has an RS500 set a time?

If it did, it obviously was not very qucik - otherwise I am sure the Ford PR dept would have been shouting it from the rooftops...

[roachcoach]

CarlT said:

harryowl said:

Has an RS500 set a time?

If it did, it obviously was not very qucik - otherwise I am sure the Ford PR dept would have been shouting it from the rooftops...

Possibly not, it was a limited run car as I recall, not as if they actually had to push sales.

[DannyVTS]

Anyone got a time for the Astra VXR "Nurburgring" edition?#

eta: just found it on Evo, 8:36 so nearly 30 seconds slower ...

Edited by DannyVTS on Friday 17th June 11:18

[danneth]

EXCELLENT time

[teabagger]

is this a BTG time or a full lap?

[mattbvw]

teabagger said:

is this a BTG time or a full lap?

Full lap. Previous full lap FWD record was the Megane R26.R at 8:16.9

[danneth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shfvI3e7q90&fea...

[mattbvw]

roachcoach said:

Possibly not, it was a limited run car as I recall, not as if they actually had to push sales.

The Megane 265 Trophy is 500 cars in total - 50 for the UK.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/...