Top Gear power laps

[christiaan]

I apologise if this is a question that has been asked before....

A very good friend of mine takes delivery of a Lotus Exige S this weekend and after it's appearnace on Top Gear last night I wanted to get a little info on how much faster the Tuscan was around the Top Gear track.... Just a bit of honest "my" car is faster than "your" car one-up-manship was in order I thought.
So off I went to the www.bbc.co.uk/topgear followed the link to the power laps.
Found a long list of cars, including the very latest time (Exige S)... but where are the Tuscan and Sagaris times?
I know that Clarkson et al are not big fans but come on guys... where are the times?

Anyone have any comments or ideas as to why they dont feature?

[Touching Cloth]

Yes this has come up before, not sure why they don't run the full list on the bbc site but a better list can be found on the topgear.com site:

www.topgear.com/content/tgonbbc2/laptimes/thestig/

Hasn't been updated with the Exige S itself but Tuscan shows as 1.24.8, Exige S shows as 1.25.1 on the bbc site.

>> Edited by Touching Cloth on Monday 22 May 23:00

[christiaan]

Thanks TC.

[s7usk]

im not 100% but the tuscan time lap is done with a 3.6 ltr not a 4.0 or an s

[Platinum]

When TG was on did I read the board correctly?

The Tuscan (mk1?) did the lap quicker than a mk2 Tuscan S? (There was no mention of a wet lap on the mk2's 'entry'.)

[Gruffy]

Let's also remember that the Stig is not necessarily the same driver from week to week.

[russian rocket]

the power lap time was in a "standard T2" not an S but there has been a lot of bedate about "standard"

[christiaan]

I have just been watching last nights Top Gear on Sky+. When Hamster posted the time for the Z4M I couldn't help but notice that there is now a time on the board for the TUSCAN 2S of 1:26.4!!!!!
Now correct me if I am wrong but they haven't tested an "S" (whether it was disguised as a standard of not) and now the car is 2 seconds slower around the track.....what is going on?

[Mainlysideways]

christiaan said:

I have just been watching last nights Top Gear on Sky+. When Hamster posted the time for the Z4M I couldn't help but notice that there is now a time on the board for the TUSCAN 2S of 1:26.4!!!!! Now correct me if I am wrong but they haven't tested an "S" (whether it was disguised as a standard of not) and now the car is 2 seconds slower around the track.....what is going on?

Funny you should say this, I spotted that as well, and checked the VT I have of when TG put the Tuscan up against the Weisman, the car, PJ54 WNG did posted 1.24.8 (above a Noble 3.0 at 1.25 ) in the test there’s no mention if it’s a standard Tuscan or an “S”, unless I missed something… but JC mentions 350bhp… so…?

What’s embarrassing is I was loaned the very car for a couple of days earlier this year and I didn’t check, I was more worried about the sh*gged clutch and the up the creak pod… but it didn't feel that fast, as in "worked over"… but something in the back of my head says it was a 3.6

I hope the Tuscan really did do 1.24.8 as two places up at 1.23.8 was a Zonda…