Silverstone Experience: 997 GTS + Turbo S

Had a fantastic day yesterday at Silverstone Experience Centre.

We had Turbo vs Turbo S back to back comparisons on the Stowe circuit and GTS vs GTS4 comparisons on the Experience Centre circuits. I also had the honour of having Richard Attwood (won Le Mans) as my instructor for the day.

Here are a few pictures I snapped before we started:

Brown interior but black steering wheel?


£6k wheels - no thanks!


Exclusive cars driven over from Germany








Turbos over on the Stowe circuit


Car park filled with Turbos and a couple other exotics

 

The difference between a normal Turbo and an S was certainly plain to see for the launches (Richard always turned PSM completely off too for me which made it even faster!) and in the cone slaloms.

The S just felt like a lighter car through the corners and changed direction much quicker due to the PTV. Even the Turbo S cabriolet felt really solid on the Stowe circuit despite the lack of a roof. VERY impressive.

Chatting to Richard a little he said he also does some work for Audi these days. He drove the R8 GT the other day and was very impressed. He said it was still nowhere near as good as a Porsche 911 though

 

What an awesome post Alex! Thank you for sharing this!

 

Looks like it was quite a fun experience for you, Alex! Any videos?

 

I've never seen a cab specd that way

 

Most welcome - thanks for the tidy up again

 

Sadly not this time. Last time I did a Turbo day there I did take this:

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

 

What, the red one? I thought it was awesome!!

 

Fixed for ya Alex, youtube changed it's sharing features, you need to choose the long link embed feature now and just drop that in here.

 

So that's why every time I drop a video link it doesn't get embedded! Thanks for the tip, DJ!