the Donkervoort looks like Donkeyass.

 

Sorry, I meant the Radical not the Donkerwhatever.

 

And Guy, I think we need a new thread on how you liked the compressor. I've been in the Ruf C2 Compressor on Hockenheim with HP Lieb behind the wheel, but never drove it myself. Crazy!

 

Although the CGT was clocked at 7.32xx it was supposedly clocked later under better conditions at 7.28xx.

About a year ago I heard that Pagani was looking to make an all new supercar to debut in 2007 or 2008. Anyone else hear anyhting about this?

 

Yes, but we are comparing sport auto times = same driver and the conditions are known.

 

Eric, you hearing anything about a new Pagani?

 

If they homologate this car it could have a very good chance at LeMans. The car looks and sounds stunning in person. Here is a cockpit pic I took awhile ago:




I some video of the car on track and up close if someone could host it. The car has incredible amounts of grunt (torque).

 

More on the radical. 2.6l V8

http://www.radicalmotorsport.com/new...0905/index.php

 

Radical SR8 SMASHES Nurburgring record 6 minutes 55 sec!

Who's next?

One the world’s most prestigious production car records was obliterated yesterday (28/9/05) by Michael Vergers in Radical’s extraordinary SR8. In road legal trim and riding on Dunlop Direnza tyres he lapped the infamous 13-mile Nordschleife circuit in just 6 minutes 55 seconds, knocking a massive 20 seconds off the previous best!

Radical have held the record before when Phil Bennett scorched around the loop in a Radical SR3 Turbo back in 2003, but such is the importance of the record, it soon came under attack from Europe’s biggest manufacturers and engine tuners. However none have got close the magic seven minute barrier. Until now, that is.

A suitably delighted Michael Vergers exclaimed that he still felt there was more to come. “We didn’t have a great deal of time to set the car up for the run and due to the weather closing, in I only really had one crack at it,” he said. “Even on that lap I had to drive around the outside of a Mercedes coming onto the main straight, so there’s plenty more to come. The car is awesome, carrying unbelievable speed through the high speed turns - if we had fitted slick tyres we could knocked more than 30 seconds off this time.”

The Radical SR8 is powered by a 2.6-litre high-revving V8 engine, built in-house by Powertec, developing 360bhp. It generates enough downforce to be able to theoretically drive upside down and holds the outright lap record at Cadwell Park (the UK’s mini-Nurburgring) and has been winning sportscar races around the world since the launch in January this year. For 2006, the SR8 will be the star of the all-new 'Great & British' Motorsport Festivals, visiting all the best UK circuits.





The Nordschleife is like no track on earth; 73 corners (many of them blind and all lined with unyielding Armco) mixed with massive elevation changes, bumps, jumps, compressions and flat out blasts as the 12.9 mile ribbon of tarmac winds its way up and down the forested Eifel valleys. It is the circuit described by Jackie Stewart as ‘the ultimate driver challenge’ and nicknamed ‘The Green Hell’

A video clip of the record-breaking lap will shortly be available to download from this page (for broadband users).

By way of comparison, Clay Regazoni posted the fastest ever Formula One race lap in the 1975 Grand Prix at 7 minutes 5 seconds, a £323,000 Porsche Carrera GT has lapped in 7 minutes 32 seconds and a Caterham R500 in 7 minutes 56 seconds.

 

Who's next?
probably an F1 car with DOT tires and some turn signals. It's getting kinda rediculous, and cars like this, IMO, take away from the spirit of this particular record.