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My .02, it sure sounds like a 991.2 GT3 to me, especially that signature 7-9K RPM mechanical sound that I remember when I have driven GT3's. Comparison below. If you play both videos at the same time and close your eyes, they sound very similar to me with perhaps the GT4RS being louder with the engine closer to the microphone in the cabin vs the GT3.
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looks like Alcantara dash, radio delete, 10k tach (don't know how high it goes because the one good view blocked out past 8k but would guess 8.5k (tricky porsche), obvcious aero and tires, sounds different so maybe a titanium exhaust (which they started putting on the cayenne GT) this car doesn't have the GT3 engine
revs to 9K rpms can be seen on the Vbox telemetry on the longer video showing the full lap.
Driver is a big factor in lap times. Driver condition, ability, decisions made, timing, repeatability etc.
Driver makes a big difference but the best driver at the track and the 3rd best, or 10th best, are likely very close in times it doesn’t really factor in. track temp conditions will make a bigger difference than who is driving IMO.
CSB: There is a track I have more laps than anyone on and one of my friends who is almost identical a driver to me (8/10 times I’ll beat his best lap by 1-3 tenths, 1/10 times I’ll beat him by a second, 1/10 times he’ll beat me) is probably in the top 20 laps for that track. At the last track event of the year the organizer brought one of their cheap race cars to have as a challenge to see who could go the fastest in the pitch black. I drove it close to 10 laps in the day time to get a feel for it since I had never driven it before and my buddy had driven it prior for a day and did about 10 practice laps in the day time the day of as well as a refresher. We waited until it was pitch black and went out. It was dark enough on the out lap I ended up fully on the grass in the first braking zone because I couldn’t see the track even going straight with the sealed beam headlights (every apex was blind, every track out was blind). I did 3 hot laps, all within .4 seconds of each other. My buddy did 3 laps and beat me by .2 seconds (which I attribute to him going second and being motivated), all of his laps within .3 seconds of each other. We were only a second and a half slower than the owner of the car’s all time lap record in that thing. So at a certain point even with a massive handicap like having to drive almost entirely on memory and driving in an unfamiliar car it doesn’t make a huge difference.
Cup2 vs cups = at least half a sec off per lap per km on an average track, but the nurnburgring is heavy on the corners per km so it’s pretty much guaranteed 10-15 seconds of that time drop is tires.
Wait, if you look at the pax glove box area, it appears you can see (covered in black tape) the Weissach logo. Perhaps the test car (lightest weight version) has the Weissach package (racetex dash, etc).
The pax seat logo is also taped up. You need to zoom in - looks like it may just say GT4RS...Was hoping to see if it had the logo there.
The engine is clearly revving to 9K. If you mean redline is your 500 rpm warning, ok. If you mean redline do not exceed, then that's not correct from the video.
The way the graph is drawn (starting above the centre of the zero), it looks like a 9K (or 9200) redline to me. The pitch at redline sounds the same as the GT3 to me too.
The engine is clearly revving to 9K. If you mean redline is your 500 rpm warning, ok. If you mean redline do not exceed, then that's not correct from the video.
Yeah...just checked again the video..it goes into the red zone, so 9K it is.
10-20-2021, 02:01 PM
