RE: 911 GT3 RS goes sub 7 minutes

[anniesdad]

I wonder when McLaren will release the P1's 'ring time.

[wc98]

Jdjd1 said:

Anybody mention how it's just another Porsche the average Joe cannot even buy.

All pre sold with the afew others for sale with about an extra £150k attached to the price

i don't care. i am just glad someone has one to rag around the ring and then upload the video to the net for me to watch.

[MC Bodge]

That looks like committed driving.

The car appears to turn in very quickly, but the back end doesn't come around and require opposite lock. A civilised 911?

He appears to 4 wheel drift around a few of the bends, looking at what he's doing with the wheel.

That engine is revving hard throughout.

I couldn't imagine racing on there.

[anniesdad]

MC Bodge said:

I couldn't imagine racing on there.

I'm not sure race participants at the 'ring would take such risks! This lap is like at 11 tenths or something!

[wc98]

Jdjd1 said:

How is it not relevant, It may aswell be an actual GT3 car it's about as available to the public as one

And WC98, The laps offered by the ring taxi's are pretty intense, The Radical will literally have you screaming

last time i was there on my bike i passed a ring taxi. to be fair it may have had timid customers on that lap. more interested in having the sort of experience you have to sign a disclaimer for and check insurance beforehand.

[Berkshire bred]

That's mental fast, still not quite as quick as me trying to get fish and chips home while its still hot

[e30m3Mark]

Imagine that same driver and the time he'd manage in a mapped 335d though!

[Drive Blind]

i love the note of the engine over the last 500rpm before the change up

[JulierPass]

Ares said:

JulierPass said:

Apparently the car is on new michelin cup "N2" tyres. I'd like to know ow much of the performance is down to the tyres? It doesn't have an active aero over the old model and 24 seconds is a staggering difference

c5%. Tyres make up a lot, and easily 5% comparing optimum road legal track tyres with average road tyres.....but the previous gen GT3 won't have been on average road tyres

That's my point. The gen 1 was on N1 cup 2 tyres. I'm wondering how much better the N2's are? The question I am asking is what has contributed so significantly to the lap time? - 24 seconds is a life time.

[anthonysjb]

JulierPass said:

That's my point. The gen 1 was on N1 cup 2 tyres. I'm wondering how much better the N2's are? The question I am asking is what has contributed so significantly to the lap time? - 24 seconds is a life time.

a) N2 tyres
b) Faster track. Lots of recent resurfacing to improve safety and therefore speed.
c) More power, more aero
d) Unsure as to how much preparation was put into the old time, but this effort had a full team lorry with tyre warmers, the works.
e) A fking ballsy driver!

All adds up!

[RamboLambo]

J2daG1990 said:

GT2RS went quicker than the performante

Yeah but sounds and looks like a wet fart

[red997]

unless I'm mistaken, from the video he's not using the paddles, and just using the PDK box in 'auto' mode ?!
Great driving though

[isaldiri]

JulierPass said:

That's my point. The gen 1 was on N1 cup 2 tyres. I'm wondering how much better the N2's are? The question I am asking is what has contributed so significantly to the lap time? - 24 seconds is a life time.

It was on a special Cup2 R tyre per the press release, not the 'regular' N2 tyre (same as the gt2rs) that will be fitted as standard.

[ishay]

Jdjd1 said:

How is it not relevant, It may aswell be an actual GT3 car it's about as available to the public as one

And WC98, The laps offered by the ring taxi's are pretty intense, The Radical will literally have you screaming

Take a little look at the 911 pages, you’ll see there’s more than a few PHers running about in recent GT cars.

[anonymous-user]

Drive Blind said:

i love the note of the engine over the last 500rpm before the change up

i think it sounds better as it goes through the intake tuning point at around 7.5k! Lovely 6 cyl noise!

[Klippie]

Good old Porsche produces another GT3 RS stunner that hits the mark no wonder people lust after these cars so much...what a machine and driver.

And the GT2 RS is even quicker...sensational..!!!

[RacerMike]

red997 said:

unless I'm mistaken, from the video he's not using the paddles, and just using the PDK box in 'auto' mode ?!
Great driving though

Quite possible. I have to admit to doing the same in cars with auto upshift when at the ‘Ring. Ultimately it shifts up at exactly the right point. Imagine how annoyed you’d be if you lost half a second clattering into the limiter....

[ecsrobin]

J4CKO said:

suffolk009 said:

Stunning car, great driving.

It does make me worry about the future of the 918, P1 and LaFerrari - I mean if these cars already go faster than they do, then what's their long term interest in them? They're not the fastest anymore, they are hardly the cutting edge of technology now, and all that electrical complexity and weight will just go toward making them undesirable in the medium/long term.

I think in 20 years time they'll be obsolete and mostly unwanted. GT3, F40, Enzo, F1 (and maybe Senna) will be what people really want to collect..

Because the only reason anyone wants a car is how fast it is, and specifically how fast it gets round a German racetrack ?

I can just see Gumtree full of owners trying to offload their unwanted hypercars in between the knackered Previas, bazzed up MK4 Golfs and moody looking 320D's.

Andy Bruce is selling his P1 GTR because he doesn’t rate it against his F1 GTR and he believes a lot of that is to do with its racing heritage, I understand where he’s coming from.


Is that a water bottle rolling around the passenger footwell? Would drive me nuts!

[northandy]

That's some driving skill on show there, great watch

[dfen5]

What amazed me is how long he’s got the throttle wide open, that green bar was like a switch, he’s on the brakes or gunning it. Wow.