Lapping my Turbo S at Sebring
02-17-2014, 11:46 AM
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Lapping my Turbo S at Sebring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthRo...ature=youtu.be
This is my new 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S lapping at Sebring on 2/16/14, at the end of a Skip Barber race weekend there. There is a Skip Barber instructor in the right seat, weighing about 160 pounds. The car is bone stock, with about 2500 miles on the clock and the stock Pirelli tires, street tire pressures, street alignment, etc. I was going half-throttle between turns 13 and 15, and was treading carefully in turn 17 and into turn 1, all because I had to drive it home. Even with this 7/10's approach, the car turned a 2:22.00, documented by an AIM Solo.
Comments: The acceleration is great. The car rotates easily in slow turns, even with the all-wheel-drive. The carbon ceramic brakes were impossible to fade in the time we were on the track, even with many hard applications. The day was about 70 degrees, and the oil and water temperatures never budged from nominal. It's a great track car, even in street stock condition.
This is my new 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S lapping at Sebring on 2/16/14, at the end of a Skip Barber race weekend there. There is a Skip Barber instructor in the right seat, weighing about 160 pounds. The car is bone stock, with about 2500 miles on the clock and the stock Pirelli tires, street tire pressures, street alignment, etc. I was going half-throttle between turns 13 and 15, and was treading carefully in turn 17 and into turn 1, all because I had to drive it home. Even with this 7/10's approach, the car turned a 2:22.00, documented by an AIM Solo.
Comments: The acceleration is great. The car rotates easily in slow turns, even with the all-wheel-drive. The carbon ceramic brakes were impossible to fade in the time we were on the track, even with many hard applications. The day was about 70 degrees, and the oil and water temperatures never budged from nominal. It's a great track car, even in street stock condition.
02-17-2014, 12:37 PM
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The top speed at the braking point at the end of the back straight before Turn 17 was around 150. If I had been braking later, it would be higher of course, but I was giving up a lot through Turn 17 for reasons of prudence in my shiny new car.
02-18-2014, 02:55 AM
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Neuromancer, Very Smooth, Very Nice Driving and obviously Very Fast! I assume the car was in Sport Plus. Were all the Nannies on? If so they certainly appeared to be VERY non-intrusive. Do you know what your Cold and Hot Tire Pressures were? Thank you so much for posting. The TTS is indeed a VERY fast Track Car - even Bone Stock. Hard to predict which car would be faster around Sebring, the GT3 or TTS.
They are both formidable Track Weapons with the TTS being undoubtedly a more comfortable Daily Driver
and better able to handle adverse driving conditions such as snow or rain.
They are both formidable Track Weapons with the TTS being undoubtedly a more comfortable Daily Driver
and better able to handle adverse driving conditions such as snow or rain.
02-18-2014, 04:59 AM
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Can't wait to get mine and put it on the track...looking into a set of spare centre lock rims and track day tyres...hoping to take delivery of mine mid march
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02-18-2014, 01:10 PM
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FastLaneTurbo, thanks for the comments. It was in Sport Plus, with no further effort to shut off the nannies. They are very unobtrusive, as you saw. I was able to rotate the car nicely for the hairpin at Turn 7, and at Turn 13, for example, with no apparent intrusion. I felt intervention only one time during about 7 laps, when I got some late rotation at Turn 15, and as I corrected it with my hands, the handling control also added corner braking to aid me. It was actually a help, not a hindrance; I was pleasantly surprised. I'd turn the nannies all off for further sessions, but it was not a bother having them on, much less so than for example in my previous Corvette ZR1 if the nannies were on.
The tire pressures were around 32 front, 36 rear cold by TPMS. I forgot to look at them hot, I'm sorry to say.
I completely agree with your assessment of the GT3 vs TTS on track and street. Since I have race cars for track driving (C6 Corvette in SCCA T-1, Mustang 5.0 liter in SCCA T-2, and a Mustang Boss 302R in IMSA Continental GS), I won't regularly track the TTS, but I was interested to see what it would do. It's going to be a street car primarily.
Best,
The tire pressures were around 32 front, 36 rear cold by TPMS. I forgot to look at them hot, I'm sorry to say.
I completely agree with your assessment of the GT3 vs TTS on track and street. Since I have race cars for track driving (C6 Corvette in SCCA T-1, Mustang 5.0 liter in SCCA T-2, and a Mustang Boss 302R in IMSA Continental GS), I won't regularly track the TTS, but I was interested to see what it would do. It's going to be a street car primarily.
Best,
02-22-2014, 07:48 AM
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Here is the recommendation from the Owners Manual, which I would carefully follow:
" Do not participate in motor racing events, sports driving schools, etc. during the first 2,000 miles (3,000 kilometers)."
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