RE: Ferrari 599XX Posts 6Min 58.16Sec 'Ring Time

[ewenm]

Official Radical said:

Been there, done that: Radical Smashes Nordschleife Record
Afraid there's another 10 seconds to find...

Exactly. Did Ferrari drive the car to the track, lap it sub-7, and drive it home again? Much as I think 'Ring times are irrelevant, shouting about something that is only second best seem somewhat silly.

[Mermaid]

Fire99 said:

TheRoadWarrior said:

In the words of Harry Hogge (Sort of).. "That's a race car"

Is it road legal? I took a stab at it being road legal-ish!

Massa will be wanting one of these soon.

[RobbieB]

Christ, am I right in thinking that's about 117mph average speed?!

[cragswinter]

ringweekends said:

It looked and sounded great on track on our Destination-Nürburgring track day on Monday.

I was driving a friends 996 RS as it caught me at Hohe Acht - thought I'd be able to tag onto it through Wipperman at least, but no, it pretty much mooched away from me! (I'm no Sabine but I don't hang about either)

Lovely thing, very privileged to have it there.

Had you have been in th Mi16 I'm sure you could have kept up for longer darren mate

[cragswinter]

It is of course complete & utter ferrari pr bks.
As mentioned radical anyone?
Production derrived car?
Err so what does a gt3 cup or rsr get round in?
Lambo murci n24 car?

Hell even Bellof's 956 was a homologated production sportscar!
Ferrari,you talk utter ste! Haha

[Mr Whippy]

It'll either drive there and back (a road legal car), or it won't (a track car)

Surely that is enough of a classification as you need if you are trying to use it to market your road cars?

Dave

[Porkie]

It was there all day on Monday as well... I did a trackday there and was lucky enough to be on track with it.

I have some AIM smartycam footage as well that I will download and post.

but I also grabbed this crap pic from in car

[patmahe]

Production derived is about as vague as you can get. I mean if you bought any car and modified it until it beat this time, you could claim it was production derived too, couldn't you or is there a rule book somewhere about this?

[CK_N4S]

ewenm said:

Official Radical said:

Been there, done that: Radical Smashes Nordschleife Record
Afraid there's another 10 seconds to find...

Exactly. Did Ferrari drive the car to the track, lap it sub-7, and drive it home again? Much as I think 'Ring times are irrelevant, shouting about something that is only second best seem somewhat silly.

No they did not drive it there.

It is transported on a truck, as the 599XX can not be road registered (not even in Italy) - therefore the time this car has posted is utterly irrelevant to anyone outside of Ferraris marketing department!

Any word on who the driver was. The chap who drove the one there at Easter looked particularly disgruntled about the snow when he truntled from the back seat of a BMW to the drivers seat of the 599XX

CK

[Chris-R]

CK_N4S said:

ewenm said:

Official Radical said:

Been there, done that: Radical Smashes Nordschleife Record
Afraid there's another 10 seconds to find...

Exactly. Did Ferrari drive the car to the track, lap it sub-7, and drive it home again? Much as I think 'Ring times are irrelevant, shouting about something that is only second best seem somewhat silly.

No they did not drive it there.

It is transported on a truck, as the 599XX can not be road registered (not even in Italy) - therefore the time this car has posted is utterly irrelevant to anyone outside of Ferraris marketing department!

Any word on who the driver was. The chap who drove the one there at Easter looked particularly disgruntled about the snow when he truntled from the back seat of a BMW to the drivers seat of the 599XX

CK

Yep, it was Rafaele de Simone - there's also an in-car vid that we're just uploading. Should be on the homepage soon...

[5678]

30 replies and no one comments on the MASSIVE cock drawn on the circuit in the background of this picture...

[Greg_D]

'tis indeed a magnificent phallus

Greg

[RB Will]

looks a bit stumpy to me, in proportion to girth

[ringweekends]

cragswinter said:

Had you have been in th Mi16 I'm sure you could have kept up for longer darren mate

I used the Mighty Mi to show him the line in the morning Craig .........

You know how it is like ....

[DrTre]

RB Will said:

looks a bit stumpy to me, in proportion to girth

That's perspective foreshortening, as I tell the OH.

[Mr Whippy]

5678 said:

30 replies and no one comments on the MASSIVE cock drawn on the circuit in the background of this picture...

That had better be on the Gran Turismo 5 N'ring

Dave

[5678]

DrTre said:

RB Will said:

looks a bit stumpy to me, in proportion to girth

That's perspective foreshortening, as I tell the OH.

[sootyrumble]

Pretty silly really now every GT1 touring car will post a time the Astom Martin DB9's are probably closer to the road going version in fact than that is to a 599 such a stupid bit of advertisement for Ferrari. It doesn't even have headlights :-)

[Arun_D]

What do people expect? It's all publicity for the company (granted they probably need it far less than others) but you can't exactly blame them, can you?

[havoc]

PR bks:-
1) it's not road-legal; and
2) there are at least 2 road legal cars that are (or are waiting to be proved) faster than it anyway. So Ferrari are liars.


Porsche - please let Walter take a GT3 RSR around there and show that pansy Fiat the way home!