Article regarding he death of manual
06-06-2013, 01:14 PM
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The comment from the article referenced earlier in this thread by Matthias Muller is quite intriguing.
The Porsche Boss said ""The reason for the wheelbase increase is to improve comfort and dynamics. Walter Rohrl has driven the car 13sec faster than a 997 around the Nurburgring."
Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/features/c...#ixzz2VOxvni4D
Porsche has not yet published a Nurburgring Laptime. The question is which 997 model was the 991 GT3 13 seconds faster than? If it was the previous 997 GT3 (7:40) it means 7:27 If it was the 997
GT3RS (7:33) it was 7:20 and if it was the 997 GT3RS 4.0 (7:27) it implies 7:14 (although I would seriously doubt that one) In any event, In the worst case, it looks like the 991 GT3 has lapped at 7:27
which is substantially lower than their estimate of "Sub 7:30" lap time, 2 seconds faster than the 991 Turbo and only one second slower than the 991 Turbo S. Of course the GT3 is usually shipped with "R" compound tires and the Turbo with normal street rubber, but the Dunlop Sport Maxx tires Porsche is using on the Turbos are most likely far closer to R compounds than the previous "normal" street tires. Dunlop Sport Maxx Tires were also on the Nissan GT-R a few months ago when they ran a lap at 7:19.
The Porsche Boss said ""The reason for the wheelbase increase is to improve comfort and dynamics. Walter Rohrl has driven the car 13sec faster than a 997 around the Nurburgring."
Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/features/c...#ixzz2VOxvni4D
Porsche has not yet published a Nurburgring Laptime. The question is which 997 model was the 991 GT3 13 seconds faster than? If it was the previous 997 GT3 (7:40) it means 7:27 If it was the 997
GT3RS (7:33) it was 7:20 and if it was the 997 GT3RS 4.0 (7:27) it implies 7:14 (although I would seriously doubt that one) In any event, In the worst case, it looks like the 991 GT3 has lapped at 7:27
which is substantially lower than their estimate of "Sub 7:30" lap time, 2 seconds faster than the 991 Turbo and only one second slower than the 991 Turbo S. Of course the GT3 is usually shipped with "R" compound tires and the Turbo with normal street rubber, but the Dunlop Sport Maxx tires Porsche is using on the Turbos are most likely far closer to R compounds than the previous "normal" street tires. Dunlop Sport Maxx Tires were also on the Nissan GT-R a few months ago when they ran a lap at 7:19.
The Dunlop's on the GTR are run flat Sport Maxx's. The ones on the GT3 will be non-run flat Sportt Maxx RACE tires. Big difference FYI.
