918 sets ring record

[LaurasOtherHalf]

a record for a road going porsche that is.....

7:14

on road tyres.

from a standing start.

with no practice lap.

[noneedtolift]

That's what Walter Röhrl said at the prospective buyers presentation in Weissach last week. On his first ever Ring lap in a production spec car, too.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

the car had the optional weissach pack on apparently though i can't quite remember what that includes from the brochure the other week?

the article hinted that it enabled a more performance orientated driving option, perhaps like a kers boost?

[J-P]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

the car had the optional weissach pack on apparently though i can't quite remember what that includes from the brochure the other week?

the article hinted that it enabled a more performance orientated driving option, perhaps like a kers boost?

I understood it just meant no NAV, no aircon and buckets with a cage and harnesses - could be wrong though!

[RatBoy M3CSL]

J-P said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

the car had the optional weissach pack on apparently though i can't quite remember what that includes from the brochure the other week?

the article hinted that it enabled a more performance orientated driving option, perhaps like a kers boost?

I understood it just meant no NAV, no aircon and buckets with a cage and harnesses - could be wrong though!

Yup, a 35kg package of deletes, hardly significant on a 1700 kg car tho'.. I would have left them on it.. but thats a decision I'm unlikely to need to make.. !

Edited by RatBoy M3CSL on Tuesday 2nd October 20:16

[SonnyM]

The greatest heavy Porsche of all time.

[DiscoColin]

Given what it weighs that time is bonkers.

[majordad]

6.11 is the time to aim for ! Stephen Bellof

[red_slr]

Hmm, GT2 RS can do it in 7 min 18 secs.. so 7 min 14 secs for a car thats going to cost a lot, lot more... hmm.. I would want it to be at least 10 seconds faster.

[BnB]

For that price I think I would want it to fly me to the Ring airfield from my private helipad.

[keep it lit]

7.14 lap...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXO1hUQtbk

[LaurasOtherHalf]

keep it lit said:

7.14 lap...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvXO1hUQtbk

Ade you swine I clicked that expecting to see the lap!

[keep it lit]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Ade you swine I clicked that expecting to see the lap!

boom!

you coming over to DN6 this weekend mate?..

hope so!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

keep it lit said:

boom!

you coming over to DN6 this weekend mate?..

hope so!

Nah, Laura is running a half marathon so I'm "giving support".

I know, 10 months to the wedding & I'm pussy-whipped already gutted all the lads are going & I would have been driving the gtr