New thread on P1 Ring times. Please try to keep it on topic.
Will they get under 7 minutes?
Will they get under 7 minutes?
You believe the P1 is going to be 2800lbs? Where'd you get that number, and you believe it?CarMeister, you are entitled to your opinion. People that constantly complain that others believe only one side, usually believe only the other As in your case...
All great stats you posted. By your logic, considering you think a 918 is faster than a Turbo S because it has more HP and more torque.. awesome... that would also mean that a 2800lb P1 with even more HP than the 918 is going to be even faster.
But you know yourself that this does not hold up, because it depends on much more things than just weight and HP. All numbers, all stats, all figures, all talk in magazines, all talk posted here, is in the end just hearsay and <acronym title="Google Page Ranking">PR</acronym>.
Who knows what the P1 can do at the Ring, the only thing we know for a fact is that the 918 can do 6:57... The rest is all to come...
FYIThere is only one way to know which car is faster at the Ring and that is exactly what has been proposed - get three customer cars selected at random, and have them run by a (or several) highly qualified race driver(s) on identical tires.
The Porsche fan boys on here that claim the superiority of their 918 surely do understand the particular 918 that did the sub 7 time was highly optimized for the ring - or he is smoking something very ludicrous fogging up his minor mental faculties! I am sure the same will be the case for the P1 and the LaF, but the point is this intellectual masturbation about what Porsche did is disingenuous.
Since everybody is entitled to his opinion - here is mine: These cars are so close and capable, the winner at the Ring will be the car with the most extreme tire that can be claimed a street legal tire: The best tire will win!
Somebody pls also help me with what 0-60 times have to do with racing at the Ring - is traffic there now so bad that they do stop and go at every turn?
Gee? Is it just me, or is Porsche (as WT Doom recently mentioned) one of the few car makers, where Auto Motor Und Sport Magazine consistently duplicates Porsche ring time with customer cars? I dunno, maybe I just imagined that reality over the past several years.kverges;57134 [B said:If you don't think Porsche optimized the car for a publicized 'Ring run I think you are dreaming. Just like Mclaren will do with the P1 and Dodge did with the ACR. The time is brilliant but I am confident it was done with the car set up for that purpose. ]Hopefully there was not a special tune on the car or anything like that, as I would view that as deceptive.