Tuesday 25th October 2011

Video: McLaren 12C At The Nurburgring

Nice footage, but no full lap in latest official release

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It's not the full unexpurgated on-board camera lap the world (well some of it) has been waiting for, but McLaren has released this official video record of the 12C at the Nurburgring.

You get talky bits from McLaren test driver Chris Goodwin, and some driving (and talking) from the editor in chief of German magazine Sport Auto who claims to have cracked off a 7min 28sec lap.

Is this the preamble to the main release? Hopefully - we reckon it's time the 12C put its money where its mouth is...

[tallandy]

Probably not a full lap as i'm sure it got smashed to pieces: http://tinyurl.com/3k97txb

Still nice video

[Liquid Knight]

Sounds great. Sub-7.30 with less than 600bhp? The "Sport" or "GT" version will be epic.

[justin220]

Awesome! Love these..

Lottery win for me would be straight to the MCL dealer, and then a Zonda

[the-photographer]

7min 28sec compares to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgr...

[Quentin1]

sport Auto says that was the second fastest time (07:28) ever recorded (road legal according to TÜV), 4 seconds behind the GT2 RS.

Dörr Motorsport will bring two GT3 cars to the 24H race and VLN series in 2012! Should be fun.

http://www.doerr-motorsport.de/McLaren

Björn.

[simonej]

Nice! Saw one of these the other day, soooo much better looking in the flesh!

[IsItACatInAHat]

Oh man. With road tyres too. That's pretty epic.

[J4CKO]

Great, but from what I hear the few production ones on the road are having a few "teething troubles"....

[jcg]

7:24 for a nissan (gtr) rather puts the "success" in context

[thewheelman]

Stunning car, yet subtle.

[pie_boy69]

JCG, I think you mean 7:34 for the Nissan, yes a very good result but some 6 seconds of the McLaren pace, I would like to see what tyres the nissan used, it is quoted as semi slick, which if these are yoko48/toyo888 type tyres then they will offer much more time over Pirelli Corsa's that it says the McLaren ran on.

[E38Ross]

I was honestly expecting a little quicker than that.... Who knows! Will wait for the official release of a full lap.

[Farmboy UK]

Saw an orange MP4-12C at the ring when I was there in September. It does look great in the flesh.

I must say I was proud to be lapping the nordscleife in my matching "Mclaren Orange" transit campervan.

I can't wait to see the full lap video as i'm sure it will be very impressive. Contrary to popular James May/Top Gear belief, I do think a Nordscleife lap time is still very important and reveals a lot about a performance car.

[s1nful]

They had one of these at the Chelsea Auto Legends(deep purple)-nice piece of kit-worried looking owner hovering around..

[m444ttb]

pie_boy69 said:

JCG, I think you mean 7:34 for the Nissan, yes a very good result but some 6 seconds of the McLaren pace, I would like to see what tyres the nissan used, it is quoted as semi slick, which if these are yoko48/toyo888 type tyres then they will offer much more time over Pirelli Corsa's that it says the McLaren ran on.

Are P-Zero Corsa's not Pirelli's entry into the track day tyre market? Rosso and Nero being the normal road tyres.

[Farmboy UK]

m444ttb said:

Are P-Zero Corsa's not Pirelli's entry into the track day tyre market? Rosso and Nero being the normal road tyres.

I think they are an 'extreme performance summer tyre' and designed for the road and track

[legalknievel]

I know I'm not the first to make this comment, but try and keep it on the track this time, chaps...

[y2blade]

tallandy said:

Probably not a full lap as i'm sure it got smashed to pieces: http://tinyurl.com/3k97txb

[Galsia]

Looks a lot better on the move to be honest. If I could do a lap of the Nurburgring in any car though it would be a Porsche Carrera GT.

[959]

The white car looks to have a problem with damping. I'd be requesting the suspension upgrade on the Orange car if I were placing an order for one.