Fastest BTG time at the Nurburgring for a PH Ultima owner

[s62]

As the topic says - how fast have you guys lapped the Ring?
Video / gps trace evidence required.....

[ezakimak]

Whats BTG?

im know BTD = Best Time of Day

....
bridge to ...?
No Idea.

[Steve_D]

It means 'Bridge to Gantry'.
You can't do a full lap of the circuit on a public session so it is the first landmark as you enter the track and get up to speed then the last point before you have to come in.

Steve

[ezakimak]

Thanks Steve,
Maybe one day i will get there. Its a long way from hear.

[Thevet]

Well, I can start the ball rolling, with the stunning time of 9minutes 50sec after 3 laps.....absolute crap time but I'm no Ringmeister. Surely there are some better times hiding out there

[tommyRS4]

done a 8:55 in my old M3 with a friend timing that was after about 15 laps over a easter weekend cant wait to have a crack in my GTR once its finished!!

[robm3]

Heading there w/e 8th May with my Brother.

We've hired a Megane R26 race car for the public day but may head down in the Ultima.
I also have a full in-car camera/lap system BUT.....my GTR needs some bits doing to it first before it's ready (new tyres, gearbox mount & various electrical gremlins sorted) so may end up going in the M5 instead --Sorry.

I did 9.45 in a CSL and that felt brisk rather than balls out fast. I think the GTR can easily do a sub 9 time but I just don't know the track well enough.

[s62]

robm3 said:

I think the GTR can easily do a sub 9 time but I just don't know the track well enough.

An Ultima should do low 7:XX BTG.

[200Plus Club]

might be of interest andy at GD cars has some new footage of a customer t70 from the ring just done very recently. i'd have thought an ultima would do very similar times, 7mins odd upto 8s depending on driver.
http://www.gdcars.com/recent-trip-to-the-ring-with...
think this lap was 7.45ish with 177mph gps top speed during lap. ls 7 engined car. :-)

[s62]

200Plus Club said:

might be of interest andy at GD cars has some new footage of a customer t70 from the ring just done very recently. i'd have thought an ultima would do very similar times, 7mins odd upto 8s depending on driver.
http://www.gdcars.com/recent-trip-to-the-ring-with...
think this lap was 7.45ish with 177mph gps top speed during lap. ls 7 engined car. :-)

I think it was 7:28 BTG but it is cheating a bit because he is not
starting from the TF entrance but coming full speed along DH.

[robm3]

I don't have the skill to be sliding at those speeds at 1.00mins in, 4.00mins in (compression lock) and 6.28mins.

[s62]

robm3 said:

I don't have the skill to be sliding at those speeds at 1.00mins in, 4.00mins in (compression lock) and 6.28mins.

Looked familiar....

http://www.rngtoy.com/thordur/almennt/BMW_Fahrerle...

[200Plus Club]

hes certainly a good driver with decent size balls of steel!
one of the "catch it " moments is quite scary and not far from losing it, big respect at those speeds especially at the ring. i've been in that car when it was in the uk and its devastatingly fast. my GD t70 is about 450-500bhp and its enough for me at this time!

[200Plus Club]

to add the t70 in the vid clip is an ls7 on kinslers and was circa 690 bhp and 600ft/lb !

[s62]

Ok so it seems that either not many Ultima owners drive the Ring or
if they do, they drive slowly. I can surely understand that people
go slow when they have spent months/years building the cars.

I would however be very interested in knowing what laptimes are
possible for a properly driven Ultima.....

[srreck]

Well, emmmm.....9:32 from BILSTEIN bridge to AUDI bridge. My first lap 3 years ago with some extra traffic, a small underneath damage at the Carrussel and a frightened passenger. Despite the dramatic sensations from the wide angle lens it was a slow lap. After +30 laps I think I'm going over one minute faster (depending on traffic).
Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahdMvD7vE_s

[robm3]

srreck said:

Well, emmmm.....9:32 from BILSTEIN bridge to AUDI bridge. My first lap 3 years ago with some extra traffic, a small underneath damage at the Carrussel and a frightened passenger. Despite the dramatic sensations from the wide angle lens it was a slow lap. After +30 laps I think I'm going over one minute faster (depending on traffic).
Cheers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahdMvD7vE_s

What's impressive is you're holding a handycam at the same time!!!!







oh wait a minute, it's left hand drive right

[srreck]

Ha,ha,ha.....good !