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BMW M4 Car and Driver Lightning Lap times are out
Featured on BIMMERPOST.com To put in context this is ~5 seconds faster than the e92 M3. However the base corvette stingray got 2:53 so significantly faster. The Z/28 got 2:50 I believe which is about what the GTR Nismo got. Porsche 918 set the all time record at 2:43. |
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Gotta love the Z28 and props to GM for building a real track car!! Putting up GTR numbers in a big, heavy package is impressive!
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M4 is right where it should be.
That 918 time is serious business now. Wow. |
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really happy with the M4 results and so cool to see that it was faster than the Cayman S and F-type R. I would of loved for them to trow a C63, RS5 and the new lexus RC-F in there to see how they stack up.
On another note the Stingray is no joke. It got a faster time than a R8 V10 plus! Congrats to GM and I can't wait to see how awesome the new Z06 will be. I actually have a deposit on it.
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The work done at VIR was repaving and widening to make it a faster track, so times this year may not be comparable to prior years.
According to this thread on a Corvette forum, the faster cars at a NASA event were running about 2 seconds quicker per lap than in prior years.
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Tires are important but I think saying "tire compound makes all the difference" might be a slight overstatement.
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Re: Z28, the Carbon brakes and the suspension. This is more of a race car than a street machine.
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Grain of salt folks. GM: It's trying and delivering fast performance cars, but it also like to recall them...often.
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Tires on the Z are $600 a pop! Believe I read the fronts are the widest currently being used on a production car, excluding SUVs and trucks.
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You can say that about almost everything Regardless, there is no doubt the F8X is meaningfully faster.
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Of course it's faster, but let's be realistic: A five second difference on a 4.1 mile road course is nice, but wouldn't "that difference" translate into something close to 20 seconds quicker lapping the Ring?
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Not really. I think the M4 did amazing considering its 300 utg street tire. The camaro for example comes from factory with a 60 utg r compound tire.
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WHP East Track: 1:04.880, Arizona Motorsports Park: 1:54.352 Road course laptimes for Porsche 911 991.1 GTS 7MT WHP East Track: 1:02.770, Arizona Motorsports Park: 1:48.889 |
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The MB E63's time is the one that impresses me the most
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Times are not comparable to past times. |
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C&D didn't really make that a point in their article and in fact often compared these cars to times of the past. I get what you're saying but I'm just the messenger not the interpreter
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