Hoovey689

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Porsche 911 Carrera S nails down 7:37.9 'Ring time

Porsche released a video of its 911 Carrera S lapping the Nürburgring last month, and with a time of 7:37.9, the quintessential sports coupe continues to impress. With Timo Kluck behind the wheel, this Carrera S posted better times around the 'Ring than the 997 911 Turbo and, according to PorscheBoost, it even knocked a full two seconds off the time the Carrera S recorded last year.

The run took place on August 28, but Porsche only published the video this week. After checking recorded lap times posted on Wikipedia, the 911's run was faster than independent tests of the Lexus LFA, Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Nissan GT-R and Ferrari 458 Italia (which all posted times of 7:38). That's good company if you ask us.


http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/07/p...-time-w-video/

edgeucated

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very impressive. Anticipation for the 911 turbo is building, I can see myself in a turbo one day

F1Driver

I would like to see the times for all the other cars mentioned driven by Timo Glock. That would be interesting.

DrRick

anyone else notice he wasnt using the PDK to upshift, but was for downshifting? seems kinda weird to me...

natnut

Didn't the LFA get 7:18 ?

TF109B

LFA did a 7:14. On street tires.

UberNoob

what did the porsche 911 carrera S use for tires?

and who is Timo Kluck?
is he a mirror universe reflection of Timo Glock?

Ap1_Alan

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The LFA Nürburgring package did 7:14. The standard LFA did 7:38

I8ABMR

The 2013 GTR did an unofficial 7:21. These guys need to get their numbers right. Still impressive but not as impressive as they make it out to be

7:21
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-new...-ar118852.html

OLD 7:29 video


The Porsche is fast but no where near the GTR. They must be using numbers from 2008/2009 MY. Even the old official GTR lap time are WAY faster than the Porsche. I am seeing some smoke being blown here

rocks

Note Carerra S not Turbo which is the real challenger to the GTR, great time indeed for a Carrera S.

DrRick

and now the 918 Spyder has done a 7:14....

LexFather

^^ Which ties LFA

That time is super impressive for a 400hp car with RWD. Wow.

I8ABMR

Is odd to anyone that these guys are posting incorrect times

ZR1is 7:19. They have posted incorrect times.

Blackraven

Very impressive for a rear-engined six cylinder car. =)

UDel

Very impressive for a 400hp 6cylinder especially that it beat the insanely fast 997 turbo but some of the claims of it beating certain cars don't seem to hold up or are debatable depending on what year/times you use. The 911 S is still over a 100K when you add just a few options where the GTR is well under 100K.