Congratulations to the people of Porsche, its global release came accompanied by an extraordinary achievement.

 

Crazy fast! I'm looking forward to see La Ferrari's and P1's lap time!

 

Congratulations Porsche!!!

 

So anyone has informations if McLaren & Ferrari will hit the Ring this year?

I mean the time is running, the winter is near. No need to wait anymore.

I know Mclaren was on the ring, but that was obviously not an official try. Some Mclaren insiders got any infos?


Ferrari wasn't on the Ring with the LF until now or?

 

I could see Ferrari not ever realizing a time if it doesnt come close to that of the Porsche and McLaren.

 

That's mighty fast. But the acceleration on the final straight was pretty low. I wish the 200-300 times weren't disappointing.

 

Not only is it the most beautiful of the three new hypers, but it also is far faster than I expected. Game over, thanks Porsche!

 

I watched his video of the run. IMHO he left 10 seconds on the track. Maybe by intent. They knew what it would run, and so there was no need to blow it up. That car has more.

 

Maybe because they have used normal road types, built to be economy on fuel and not on lap time performance? There are the talks that with non economy tires car makes 6-48

 

It's a brilliant time from the 918, no doubt. Also, seeing the video, you can see it meant a lot to them.

However, the P1 is going to blitz that time. They have been doing a LOT of development laps in the car at the Ring and have, apparently, already set a 6.33:22 in May this year. They have not released that time though, as they believe there was more to come. Since that date, they've been back several more times, but still no 'official' time yet. Maybe they are waiting to see if Ferrari show their hand?

That shouldn't take anything away from the 918 time though - the difference in price is rather considerable, and even more so compared to the LaFerrari (such a stupid name).

Well done Porsche.

Did anyone see that Jim Glickenhaus said that he thought the Porsche was the most impressive package (of the three Hybrid supercars). And that he has been told by Weissach that they are already developing a non-Hybrid version if the 918 and that's the one he's waiting for...