RE: Porsche 911 GT2 RS: 6:47.3
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The race is still on!
I have an increased pulse just while watching this. Utterly bonkers.
This must be a terrifying quick car, as even the racing driver is not going flat through the foxhole. First time in a while, that the driver is not going flat there for a record attempt.
The development speed of tires and chassis is still mind blowing. Would like to see for instance the 997 GT3 on modern rubber lapping the Nordschleife again.
Looking forward for the Sport Auto Supertest, if they can go first time under 7 minutes in this car.
I guess this car could hit for the first time 1,8G in corners.
Utterly pointless on the road though!
I have an increased pulse just while watching this. Utterly bonkers.
This must be a terrifying quick car, as even the racing driver is not going flat through the foxhole. First time in a while, that the driver is not going flat there for a record attempt.
The development speed of tires and chassis is still mind blowing. Would like to see for instance the 997 GT3 on modern rubber lapping the Nordschleife again.
Looking forward for the Sport Auto Supertest, if they can go first time under 7 minutes in this car.
I guess this car could hit for the first time 1,8G in corners.
Utterly pointless on the road though!
Andy S15 said:
Still hoping that one day McLaren will drop the P1's secret laptime and it'll be some crazy quick number - a while back I read rumours of a 6:30 range time but for some reason they didn't want to publicise it. I can't imagine that reason to be because it was surprisingly slow...
it'll be asbolutely nowhere near that, the LM was 13 seconds slower than that and had significant improvements over the standard P1
Incredible achievement from the GT2 RS - The P1 LM time was 6.43.2 so like WCZ mentioned, the standard P1 would be no where near that. The LM has significant custom aero, a 4.0 engine instead of 3.8, it's much lighter and Kenny Brack at the wheel.
Worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UD2N0EAdo and they drove it home..
Worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UD2N0EAdo and they drove it home..
From the annual "can a car be quicker round the Manx than the bikes threads", I always maintained something like a 997 GT2, stripped out and on slicks would get the job done, and fare much better than a Subaru hill climb special. This would be the ideal choice for such an attempt IMO.
browngt3 said:
Fantastic driving, fantastic car, wow indeed! The way these lap times are tumbling I wonder if Stefan Bellof's outright record will be broken afterall. If so, hope it's Porsche that do it
I think we're a little way of Bellof yet, 36 seconds in a long, long time. He was only halfway round Galgenkopf at 6:11!Be interesting to see what it would have done on slicks though, if this wasn't on almost slicks anyway.
Apples and oranges though, Road Car vs Group C Racer in Qualifying trim.
Deeply impressive though. I'm fairly sure if they wanted to break the record then chucking this years LM car round would probably get pretty close, but everyone seems to want the Road Car record for some reason.
TIGA84 said:
I think we're a little way of Bellof yet, 36 seconds in a long, long time. He was only halfway round Galgenkopf at 6:11!
Be interesting to see what it would have done on slicks though, if this wasn't on almost slicks anyway.
Apples and oranges though, Road Car vs Group C Racer in Qualifying trim.
Deeply impressive though. I'm fairly sure if they wanted to break the record then chucking this years LM car round would probably get pretty close, but everyone seems to want the Road Car record for some reason.
Putting a current GT3 car minus restrictors around the Nordschleife would probably beat Bellof's record, never mind an LMP1 or DTM car which would be faster still.Be interesting to see what it would have done on slicks though, if this wasn't on almost slicks anyway.
Apples and oranges though, Road Car vs Group C Racer in Qualifying trim.
Deeply impressive though. I'm fairly sure if they wanted to break the record then chucking this years LM car round would probably get pretty close, but everyone seems to want the Road Car record for some reason.
If (and it's increasingly a very big 'if') McLaren ever got the standard P1 under 7 mins, then it doesn't matter now, as they've missed the boat completely. Personally, I don't think that they did. If they wanted to be the first production / road legal (whatever that even means) car under 7 mins and had achieved this, why on earth would they have kept quiet about it? In an era where only Bugatti, Hennessy and Koenigsegg seem to care about absolute top speeds, surely McLaren would've made a big song and dance about a lap time?
Was there ever a 'Ring time for the LaFerrari, unofficial or otherwise?
Veered a bit off-topic, but that GT2 RS lap is absolutely phenomenal!
Was there ever a 'Ring time for the LaFerrari, unofficial or otherwise?
Veered a bit off-topic, but that GT2 RS lap is absolutely phenomenal!
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