iambon

Wow this is mighty impressive!

Published on Oct 2, 2012 by Porsche
The Nürburgring remains the ultimate test of man and machine. The new 911 Carrera S and racing driver Timo Kluck mastered this test with a very distinctive result: a lap time of 7:37,9 minutes. Enjoy one lap in the green hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=OnSpVN0-wio

iambon

Updated info on ranking http://www.fastestlaps.com/tracks/nordschleife.html

Porsche 911S (991) 400hp/1415kg
no. 32/268 7:37.90

Beating all the supercars

No.34 Lexus LF-A 560hp/1609kg 7:38
No.35 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera 570hp/1430kg 7:38
No.36 Ferrari 430 Scuderia 510hp/1402kg 7:39.70
No.38 Mclaren Mercedes SLR 626hp/1693kg 7:40
No.39 Porsche 991 GT3 (997.2) 435hp/1376kg 7:40

hepmonk

Amazing! Anyone know what the best lap time recorded for a base carrera is?

964RS_NGT

Is it known what spec the car used has? Obviously it's got bucket seats. Wonder about the chassi config and if it had power kit and/or PCCB. 1415 kg seems low.

sidicks

Unladen weight of 1415Kg is what Porsche quote on the website for the 991 Carrera S.

Rainier_991

Nice.
So the 991 is around 12 seconds faster than the 997.2 without going too much into detail.
Would it be wise to use this as a base to extrapolate what the 991 Turbo and Turbo S would do ?

Turbo S possibly in the very low 20's ? We know P is highly motivated to squash the GTR at 7:24...

My wife is looking forward to use our new 991 (when it arrives) for her daily grocery shopping run. I should be worried...

Rainier

iambon

I just watched C&D comparison test between 991 and 981, very interesting comment from a driver;

"Its got all 911's qualities but it just turn-in like a mid engined car"

iambon

For sure this 991S is equipped with PDDC

scott40

Wow- what a drive!

chuck911

Wonder how this compares with the times of us mere mortals? And by "mere" I mean "merely" those few able to drive a few laps after taking factory delivery?

shizzle

From what I was told, the car had PDK, Sports Chrono, Sport Exhaust, SPASM, PDCC, but no Powerkit.

chuck911

So the 991S is now within one minute of the lap time Derek Bell turned in during this video of him driving the 956.
Quite a few may be young enough to be puzzeled by his comment about being passed because he was driving with a camera. Hard as this may be to believe, but there once was a time when walnut-size video cameras were unavailable! The camcorder in his car, mounted on a tripod beside him, was about the size of a microwave oven! Nowadays he could do nearly the same performance, but with multiple car mounted cameras, a/c, to the tune of Burmester audio and with real-time GPS mapping telling him where to pit!

street rod

Great video I enjoyed the ride, thanks for posting this. Is the circuit similar now or did they make many changes over the years?

fester

I wonder what 4S time would be..? Better or worse? Opionions (without biase please)...?

spourreza

I posted it somewhere. Search for it. It was very strong