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July 7, 2009 by George Skentzos
Video of the Nissan GT-R’s latest record breaking lap of the Nurburgring has finally found its way onto the web, giving us a full turn-by-turn account of its 7:26.7 minute lap.
Behind the wheel of the 2009 model GT-R is Nissan’s Chief Test Driver, Toshio Suzuki. Now we just have to wait for the SpecV to make its ‘Ring debut.
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Bit of a nowhere car, but cannot take away the lap time its done.
Is that quicker than the Vette did?
Cheers
F-0
Nope the Vette is still the fastest production car around the ‘Ring. Youd have thought that the Enzo with its all carbon body and V12 would have ruled the roost, but go figure, pushrod V8 Americans rule. GO HSV.
The car looks to understeer alot and abit of a challenge to drive on the limit.
But still 7.26 is still a great time
Cool clip. I didn’t look away for a second.
Well you’d be a bit worried if your chief test driver ; someone who has done more kms; more laps in the car than anyone else couldn’t get the best time out of such a high tech sports car [which he has been "intimately" involved with] wouldn’t you?
I mean he should have the best understanding of what the car can do and what its potential is etc – and by him posting the fastest lap time shows that his feedback on how to improve the car has been spot on
If you look closely you have to add about 5 seconds (a rough count) to that time as the clock starts around half way down the old pit straight, yet stops at the start….
Delicious!
Oh men! That’s impressive, 7.26 is really something.Nissan GTR sounds interesting…
The time is impressive. The car is a great piece of machinery, but find myself fallen asleep watching it.
It lacks passion!
I agree with Devil’s Advocate, the clock starts running halfway down the pit straight, but stops at the start – about 4 seconds…
You don’t add 5 secs as most timed laps at the ‘ring are bridge-to-gantry runs… like the gtr did.
give mea gt-r and let me go round the nurburgring twice. the second time i treckon i could do it under 8 minutes
Yanzo, you would be lucky to crack 10 minutes.
thank’s a lot
Understeer much?!
As to the comments on the start and stop points, I’m not sure what the reasoning is, but timed laps such as this are always done like that at the T13 complex.
The start and stop points roughly line up with where the Nordschleife joins the GP track, so maybe it has something to do with that.
@Yanzo – The clip above is not a bridge to gantry run. BtG runs are done, generally, on public drive days when it is not possible to do a full flying lap. So, the “bridge” is the Bilsten bridge just after the TF gates and the “gantry” is after the exit of Galgenkopf as you start the run up the Döttinger Höhe straight.
General consensus is you need to add 30-40 seconds to BtG runs to get a rough estimate at a time for a full flying lap (depending on the car, of course).
zr1 manual gear stick versus gt-r paddle shift auto, nearly identical times, and with all those effort driving the zr1 manual? hmmm
Shak
your “brain power” is so limited,probably explains why you make so “limited” comments.
I think a few people need to check out the list of poduction vehicle lap times on Wikipedia. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.....n_vehicles
Shak “Liam”& “Wikipedia” confirmed my first comments
The second laugh today was I had to use “Pontiac” as the
“anti-spam word”.LOL.!
I wish that Wikipedia table included “estimated street price for vehicle at time of lap”
This would add some interesting perspective I thinks!
Schah7 im using a table from Wheels magazine, that came out last month. Wikipedia can easily be changed by people who want to. You should get the facts for yourself and not beleive what some Star Wars character tells you.
Shak, while I totally agree with you WRT Wikipedia, I would hardly call Wheels magazine an authoritative document either. I know I have seen many ‘holes’ in some of their stories/facts/figures etc etc… ;-)
Shak I didn’t realise that “Liam” was a “Star Wars” character.!?LOL.!
P.S Shak not wasn’t very nice “Wheels” misleading you like that.LOL.!
I agree that Wikipedia can be dodgy – but when you consider there is video evidence for the cars in 1st, 2nd and 6th place on the Wikipedia list, and the cars in 3rd, 4th and 5th were all part of an evo magazine group test – I think its safe to say that is a bona fide list of genuine times.
Yeah the stop-watch starts and stops in two different places on pit straight; which makes the lap approx 4 seconds better than what it should have been
Therefore; if you take 4 seconds off of the time set by the ZR-1 Corvette it makes it an even harder benchmark to reach.
and still the fastest production car around “the ring”
@Shak
I had to laugh when you mentioned “pushrod V8 Americans rule. GO HSV.”What utter nonsense!
You would think that the Vette with it’s 6.2L V8 SUPERCHARGED!!!engine would’ve been faster than the NA Enzo.
The V12 in the Enzo would have TEN times the technology than the WHOLE ZR1 car!
GM produced a superfluous car to show off to the world and went broke in the process.
That would be scary ride im glad i was not sitting in there.I cant imagine the vspec beeing much faster as it has same power just bit lighter and better suspension.But you got to hand it to them its right up there near the top of the list with all those very exspensive sports cars good on them i recone for giving the big boys a hard time
I meant Yoda is a Star Wars character. I take your point that Wheels may not be 100%, but then again id take their word when it comes to motoring advice over Wikipedia.
In my previous comment I said that as there is a difference of 4 seconds with the GT-Rs 7.26 lap time [with Nissan factory test driver Suzuki at the wheel] as the stop-watch starts and stops in two different places.. not at the start/finsh line
If you took 4 seconds off of the ZR-1s lap time of 7.26 which was set with GM factory test driver Jim Mero at the wheel] it would have a time of 7.22
According to TMR; late last year Chevrolet took the ZR-1 back to the ring to have a second attempt – This time with European Touring Car Champ Jan Magnussen at the wheel and he reportedly set a time of 7.22 – but this is yet to be confirmed.
Either way – not bad for a supposed dinosaur which costs less than half of the other cars in the top 10
Wheelnut: “Either way – not bad for a supposed dinosaur which costs less than half of the other cars in the top 10″
Excluding the GT-R, obviously. ;)
Wheelnut: The ZR1’s 7:26.4 lap time is measured exactly the same way as this lap. I invite you to have a look at the ZR1’s ring video to find out for yourself. All manufacturer lap times are recorded this way. They all exclude the 300m stretch between the entrance to and the exit from the new Nurburgring GP circuit.
Also the ZR1’s 7:22.4 lap time has been confirmed as bogus. Road&track USA first reported the lap time after a number of blogs started talking about it. But after they had a conversation with Tadge Jeuchter, the corvette program director they discovered that neither the ZR1 or Magnussen have been to the ‘ring since Jim Mero’s attempt in June last year.