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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Ludas
^^ Porsche aren't exactely saints either. What did they say the GT2 RS could do around the Ring? 7 minutes 18 seconds.
Sportauto tested the car and guess what, lap time was 7:24. Still a damn good time, but 6 seconds slower than promised by Porsche...
actually, they did do 7:18- while testing the 'Beastie' with Walter Rohl. Andreas specifically mentioned this during the 2RS launch.

the car is capable of it.
 
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And you think the car wasn't tweaked specifically for the Ring?
 
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Originally Posted by Ludas
^^ Porsche aren't exactely saints either. What did they say the GT2 RS could do around the Ring? 7 minutes 18 seconds.
Sportauto tested the car and guess what, lap time was 7:24. Still a damn good time, but 6 seconds slower than promised by Porsche...
I don't know, but 6 seconds over a 14+mile track is not a lot of variance. In fact in my mind that's impressive. The porsche driver probably knows the car better and had more runs. The fact that a journalist managed to get within 6 seconds of that time in a day is good enough for me.

This is COMPLETELY different than what Chris is talking about. He mentions a 2 second difference just in a straightline 0-100 time which is massive. That alone would translate to 20+ seconds on the ring, let alone what handling tweaks they did.
 
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if i were ferrari, i wouldnt let anybody who havent pay for theirs drive it, otherwise u'll realize its just a car. it cant fly, or do other things u dreamed it can. atleast i did.


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I found this earlier thought it was pretty interesting and can some how see it being pretty true. I wonder what you guys think, ....
 
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This may be the best post ever. We need to make this into the official TS poster.
Haha thanks. I was going to take a picture of the CGT instrument cluster/steering wheel instead, but I cherish my life so I didn't get in it.




......maybe I will next time....
 
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Originally Posted by Ludas
^^ Porsche aren't exactely saints either. What did they say the GT2 RS could do around the Ring? 7 minutes 18 seconds.
Sportauto tested the car and guess what, lap time was 7:24. Still a damn good time, but 6 seconds slower than promised by Porsche...
you must be kidding. No wait, You're right, there is no way that a Porsche Factory/race car driver could get that time. It's not like he spends almost every day at work behind the wheel of a 911. So I'm sure he couldn't be six seconds around the track that he has probably gone around thousands of times faster than an automotive journo who has spent considerably less time than the factory driver...
 
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[QUOTE=belfiglio;869433]And only Ferrari that masks the reality?

Strangely some Nissan GT-R was tested by a particular journalist, what his real name, the yes, Chris Harris , who likes to be fair, in its opinion on the machine Nissan

YouTube - Drivers Republic: GT2 vs GTR comparison around the Nürburgring

Not to go off topic but... in this video at about 6:34-6:42, what is Chris Harris saying about the M3 or what is he saying about the GTR? I couldn't tell if he's saying how awesome the M3's performance really is or how awesome the GTR's performance is.
 



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