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Kévin Estre was the driver. 6:56. Blazing fast and driven with balls of steel.
Kévin Estre was the driver. 6:56. Blazing fast and driven with balls of steel.
991.2 GT3 RS
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AJB
GT
Cobrar
GT Owner
Marvel. Imagine access to Nürburgring on a day where there is no traffic and the entire width of the 14+ miles of track is actually dry, not just the ‘line’! Must be one of those rare five days there!
Interesting to see the weakness in the chassis, e.g. car could use a Magnaride type shock system. Watching him at the apex/curbing very tender inputs. Gearing is also interesting, 6th is an overdrive in a performance car, really should have been brought down a cog or two in final drive. Other than that pretty cool run.
Interesting to see the weakness in the chassis, e.g. car could use a Magnaride type shock system. Watching him at the apex/curbing very tender inputs. Gearing is also interesting, 6th is an overdrive in a performance car, really should have been brought down a cog or two in final drive. Other than that pretty cool run.
Apollo
GT Owner
That is amazing. Tires have sure come a long way.
It is interesting the GM folks are out there now at the same time as Porsche with the ZR1 and so far independent timers are showing they are over 15 seconds slower. Many were predicting they would be faster than the Porsche. If they do post a faster time, I would be highly suspicious at this point.
https://www.bridgetogantry.com/pors...corvette-zr1-disappoints-with-way-over-7mins/
It is interesting the GM folks are out there now at the same time as Porsche with the ZR1 and so far independent timers are showing they are over 15 seconds slower. Many were predicting they would be faster than the Porsche. If they do post a faster time, I would be highly suspicious at this point.
https://www.bridgetogantry.com/pors...corvette-zr1-disappoints-with-way-over-7mins/
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Sinovac
GT Owner
There are so many variables with that course that it’s nearly impossible to make any meaningful comparisons between times that are within 15 seconds of each other. Nevertheless, a blazing fast run is a blazing fast run.
FENZO
GT Owner
Apollo
GT Owner
He is almost certainly using paddles. There are multiple downshifts mid turn anticipating his exit. The PDK works really well in auto mode, but can't anticipate that far in advance. Looking at it further, he is holding it on the rev limiter, where in auto mode it would shift, and then he is short shifting at some points. I am certain this is manual mode.
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Brombear
GT Owner
Porsche‘s PDK is really amazing in auto mode. You‘ll need to experience yourself to believe it. For 99.5% of all manual lovers it will simply outsmart them. The remaining .5% are highend racing drivers driving the whole day long.
texas mongrel
GT Owner
I’ll never forget doing one lap in the GT back in 2016, heavy rain, insane drivers in Fiats and vans, and BAT wiggling around ahead of me. After one lap we convened for a coffee, DBK said, “ who wants to go back out?” And all of us said, “no frigging way”!
Apollo
GT Owner
FGT899
GT Owner
Probably 6:5X. Hard to say with resurfacing. Porsche supposedly expected 7:05 and went way faster than that, so not sure if the surface is just vastly improved this year or if they went in with moderate expectations. GT would be a lot faster through a couple of the real long sections but the Cup 2 R tire is better. RS also makes a lot more downforce with the mammoth fixed wing.
I once asked if they'd used their sophisticated sim equipment to do the Ring, and was told it was a sub-7. They are pretty accurate with that stuff. Should let Müller do it in real life. Has plenty of experience racing there.
I once asked if they'd used their sophisticated sim equipment to do the Ring, and was told it was a sub-7. They are pretty accurate with that stuff. Should let Müller do it in real life. Has plenty of experience racing there.
Copenhagen GT
GT Owner
I must admit the PDK sport plus system is growing on me .... it makes the average track guy like me much faster in a much "less effort/drama" kind of way ..... the way it keeps the rews up is just plain awesome
I recently drove a 2014 911 Turbo S on track and I don´t think I´ve ever driven a much faster car around that track ....
Test driving the Cayman GT4 for the first time next week .... to make up my mind if the right Cayman for me is the GTS with PDK (awesome) or the 6 speed GT4 (expected to be even more awesome) :wink
:cheers
Anders
Brombear
GT Owner
Kingman
GT Owner
That was certainly a day to remember. It’s still hard to believe we made that trip. Insane.
Chip
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Yup. Periodically I run across those pics and think "I can't believe we did that."
Congratulations. You will love it. Hard to get any better in my opinion, and I'd still rather have a 3RS than a 2RS.
ByeEnzo
GT
I love my GT4. I've had it for 2 years. If you are going to track it hard, you'll need a track alignment to increase front camber. That will require toe links +/- camber plates. Otherwise the car understeers. Great car on the street with decent trunk space front and back.