I can hear the purist crinching when you hear about a S-Cab with tiptronic of all things on the racetrack, but ...


Went on Friday with the local Ford GT40 club (6) (and a bunch of Gallardos (2), GT3s (3), Nissan GTR (3) and R8s (2) plus the wild bunch of Audi S4, BMW M3 and of all things, a Ford Flex) to the track in Pahrump - 2.3miles course - brilliant fun indeed.

Got a stock S-Cab with a tiptronic, I am on the track maybe 3 times per year thus not too good at it, but sure had a blast.

I thought I would hate the tiptronic (I do in daily driving, for some reason it is permanent in 5th gear at 35mph in the city); but was surprise how well it acted. After driving manual for a number of laps, I tried the automatic setting and liked it almost better than fumbling with the little ***** on the steering wheel and not knowing what gear one is actually in (while the Cayenne Tiptronic lets you shift at the gear handle in the center, the 911 only has the steering wheel controls).


The car performed well, was without a doubt missing 100hp to run with the GT40s and all, but gave some of the R8s a good challenge and as always, it depended more on the driver skills than anything (I could not compete in the advanced group with the guys that knew how to handle a GT3, but with the mixed group even my street-tire-tiptronic-shaky-Cabriolet outdid a bunch of the more powerful cars ...


Great experience (with a fuel economy of 7.3mpg!)

 

sounds like fun. it's not what you got, it's how you use it. it's good to see cab owners putting them through their paces