FastLaneTurbo

The “official” fastest lap records for Laguna Seca are posted on
http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/laguna_seca.html
For lap times to be counted and listed, cars are restricted to using OEM Tires.

The present record of 1:33.16 was set in 2005 by an Ariel Atom 2, followed by Randy Pobst’s 1:33.62 driving a 649 HP SRT Viper TA in 2013.

The best Porsche Times listed are:
#12 620 HP 997 GT2RS in 2010 1:35.56
#13 560 HP 991 Turbo S in 2013 1:35.62
#21 450 HP 997 GT3RS in 2010 1:36.77
#22 500 HP 997 Turbo in 2009 1:37.80
#31 400 HP 991S Carrera in 2012 1:39.00
The best GT3 Time listed is
#38 415 HP 997 GT3 in 2006 1:39.52

wanna911

People like to hate on Randy, but he's in stock cars with stock alignments for a few laps on any sort of day. And still it takes the best guys on hoosiers to get close to him. While he leaves time on the table most time. The Viper guys whine all of the time knowing most of them can't drive worth a lick........

Randy is a beast.

Has the 4.0 been timed there by him yet?

Porsche-Suchtig

Qualifying is a little different. That's a one lap deal. Not repeatable over any length of time. Race times for that same weekend were closer to 1:31-1:32.

http://www.imsatiming.com/Results/20...nal%20Race.pdf

Carrera GT

Nice pic! The 964 is not known to be "flyin" too often. When was that taken? I think it looked a lot better yesterday than that pic depicts.

Carrera GT

For "unlimited" sound days, you either piggyback onto a race weekend and take in-between sessions (can be poor value and a logistics hassle) or pick a day when the event organizer pays the venue operator to pay the county for the "privilege" of going loud. It's a racket.

wanna911

These are one lap deals too. Street cars on street tires for 3-5 laps tops, about the same as what you would do in qualifying. Fastest time is the one recorded. Nobody can run their absolute fastest lap over any length of time. This isn't racing as we are comparing to street cars. You aren't even going to get remotely clean laps at those lap times anyways in a DE, you will probably rarely get a clean lap period.

We are comparing the fastest single lap times from what I can tell.

moto one

You can buy a unlimited sound day any time you want to pay the price, about 3 times the cost of a 90db day.

996FLT6

Next time I get punted "3 strikes your out" at ls I'm heading to said neighborhood who doing the complaining I'm doing donuts around there neighborhood uncorked!!! What a joke!!! Mike

mooty

ppl just talk talk talk
i would hold a private day at LS. 30 cars.
$1500/car
let's do it.

MayorAdamWest

Somehow the new M4 is as fast as the 991S.

Porsche-Suchtig

I thought you might say that, and I regretted not being more complete in my last post. Let me start off by saying, you are correct, in qualifying trim, with the right driver and under the right conditions, a 997.2 GT3 cup can do 28s.

My purpose for posting times was to try to give the original poster the most comparable information I could find. I intentionally excluded qualifying times. In race qualifying, you set the car up for one lap exactly. That includes softer tires, possibly a different alignment, minimum weight, etc etc. They often even use cheater parts as scrutiny is generally less and the benefits of qualifying up front in a spec series are immeasurable. (Note: While softer tires may not be allowed, each race slick has one really fast lap in it, after which the grip is less. In qualifying, you get that one lap in during the session. If you have to run that same set of tires in the race, it won't still have that same super hot lap in it.)

When Motortrend or others take a street car to the track and do hot laps, they don't do any of that. While they are trying for the best lap they can muster, they drive the street car as is, set up to drive 1000s and 1000s of miles relatively trouble free, with tires that are intended to last a long time (they don't have one super hot lap in them). Very different from a qualifying setup that is designed solely for one fast lap.

Nizer

It's a little beast

ToyGuyAZ

The M4 didn't even beat a standard 991 in this test and got spanked badly. Not sure how it would even come close to an S:

MayorAdamWest

I'm a little perplexed too, as it's 20s slower on the Nurburgring as well.

TRAKCAR

It's a special RSA :-) this was late May.
You were nowhere to be found, i asked around...