New Record at Nüurburg ring
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Not Good. Now I'm a whole minute behind 
www.germancarfans.com/print.cfm/ID/2040920.004/lang/eng
Text below from the Site above:
Carrera GT fastest car on Nürburgring
Text & photos courtesy Porsche AG
edited 09-20-2004
Successful record set up on the North Circuit
The Carrera GT is the fastest car to lap the Nürburgring North Circuit. With the clock showing 7'32.44 minutes, Horst von Saurma, Chief Editor of the German specialist magazine "sport auto," achieved a new record for road-approved vehicles, at the wheel of the 612 HP strong Porsche. He completed the 22.6 km long round in the Eifel at an average speed of 164 km/h.
"It was really touch and go. The circuit was dirty in some sectors, which didn't make it any easier," beamed Horst von Saurma with glee, after his record round.
For ten years the magazine has been awarding an (unofficial) challenge cup to the driver who drives the fastest round on the Nürburgring using a road-approved car. Thus the race for the best time round the circuit has become a prestigious affair, as Nürburgring is still the best and most honest test of the quality of a vehicle chassis, motor performance, aerodynamics and naturally of tires. Since 1995, times have gradually improved from 7'52 minutes to the current 7'32.44 minutes. Wolfgang Dürheimer, Member of Porsche's Management Board responsible for Research and Development: "The time achieved by Horst von Saurma is excellent and demonstrates the potential of our car. Until recently such times could exclusively be clocked up with pure racing prototypes."
The journalist von Saurma clocked up the fastest round in the context of a so-called "super test," which the magazine executes regularly. Top times on the Nürburgring, always driven by the same tester, are among the criteria. Wolfgang Dürheimer: "It is precisely for this reason that the 7'32.44 minutes are so easy for us to put in to context and are thus valuable."
www.germancarfans.com/print.cfm/ID/2040920.004/lang/eng
Text below from the Site above:
Carrera GT fastest car on Nürburgring
Text & photos courtesy Porsche AG
edited 09-20-2004
Successful record set up on the North Circuit
The Carrera GT is the fastest car to lap the Nürburgring North Circuit. With the clock showing 7'32.44 minutes, Horst von Saurma, Chief Editor of the German specialist magazine "sport auto," achieved a new record for road-approved vehicles, at the wheel of the 612 HP strong Porsche. He completed the 22.6 km long round in the Eifel at an average speed of 164 km/h.
"It was really touch and go. The circuit was dirty in some sectors, which didn't make it any easier," beamed Horst von Saurma with glee, after his record round.
For ten years the magazine has been awarding an (unofficial) challenge cup to the driver who drives the fastest round on the Nürburgring using a road-approved car. Thus the race for the best time round the circuit has become a prestigious affair, as Nürburgring is still the best and most honest test of the quality of a vehicle chassis, motor performance, aerodynamics and naturally of tires. Since 1995, times have gradually improved from 7'52 minutes to the current 7'32.44 minutes. Wolfgang Dürheimer, Member of Porsche's Management Board responsible for Research and Development: "The time achieved by Horst von Saurma is excellent and demonstrates the potential of our car. Until recently such times could exclusively be clocked up with pure racing prototypes."
The journalist von Saurma clocked up the fastest round in the context of a so-called "super test," which the magazine executes regularly. Top times on the Nürburgring, always driven by the same tester, are among the criteria. Wolfgang Dürheimer: "It is precisely for this reason that the 7'32.44 minutes are so easy for us to put in to context and are thus valuable."
Same time... but I guess the Radical is not a "Street car" according the guys at Sport Auto
www.radicalmotorsport.com/news_folder/nordchliefe/index.php
Date: 15th July 2003.
Radical's new SR3 Turbo, driven by touring car ace, Phil Bennett, shattered the Nordschleife lap record of 7:32, by a massive 13 seconds. The new record was made all the more impressive by the fact that the all-new 1500 turbo-engined car had only covered a small number of development miles at Lotus' Hethel test circuit, and the record was achieved during it's first and only flying lap of the awesome 14-mile German circuit. more on the link above...
www.radicalmotorsport.com/news_folder/nordchliefe/index.php
Date: 15th July 2003.
Radical's new SR3 Turbo, driven by touring car ace, Phil Bennett, shattered the Nordschleife lap record of 7:32, by a massive 13 seconds. The new record was made all the more impressive by the fact that the all-new 1500 turbo-engined car had only covered a small number of development miles at Lotus' Hethel test circuit, and the record was achieved during it's first and only flying lap of the awesome 14-mile German circuit. more on the link above...
Yes.
The Daur 962 Le Mans
www.flat-6.net/forum/showcar.php?do=overview&car_model_id=70
It even won the Le Mans in a road car class. Read all about it...
www.flat-6.net/forum/showcar.php?do=view_page&car_model_id=70&article_id=226
The Daur 962 Le Mans
www.flat-6.net/forum/showcar.php?do=overview&car_model_id=70
It even won the Le Mans in a road car class. Read all about it...
www.flat-6.net/forum/showcar.php?do=view_page&car_model_id=70&article_id=226
There's even one road legal 962 for sale...
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Please use www.tinyurl.com for long links, like ones from mobile.de. It's free and doesn't shag the formatting. Cheers, Domster
>> Edited by domster on Friday 15th October 11:05
http://tinyurl.com/5ad24
Please use www.tinyurl.com for long links, like ones from mobile.de. It's free and doesn't shag the formatting. Cheers, Domster
>> Edited by domster on Friday 15th October 11:05
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