base gt-r 7:27 @ 'ring (on spec-v wheels)
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Two of the fastest cars around the Nurburgring are closer in price to the GTR than to any Porsches and Ferrari's. The GTR does compete with the GT3, M3 and R8 but not with the Enzo, Zonda and ACR.
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I wonder where MC is at. Researching perhaps.
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Then after 8 months in which they had plenty of time for ideal conditions while testing with 3 drivers at a time, they get 7:38 in non ideal conditions with Toshio magically right before release? And then the other drivers disappear? The fact is that even Nissan's other drivers couldn't get better than mid 7:40's with closer to stock vehicles. If I'm not mistaken Toshio's name was never mentioned for their testing until that 7:38. Seems Nissan needed an Alibi when even the other guys are pro racers. And these are on Dunlops as mentioned in Nissan's official press release when responding to Porsches claim. Nissan goes back and takes 9 seconds off with the same tires, and less only two slightly damp sections of track and minor suspension changes. There is so much foul play by Nissan it's crazy, and they try to front like they are being open and honest. It's rather
actually.Let's see Suzuki go and drive Tsukuba 3 seconds faster than everyone else in a GT-R, then we'll buy that he drove the ring 20 seconds faster than everyone else too.
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I agree the GT-R is extremely easy to drive at 70 percent pace
you seem really confused and clueless about this car, yet you have so much to say.
i thought this was explained numerous times...
for those of you who still haven't driven the gt-r and don't understand it (but yet, still feel qualified to discredit the car):
i believe it is easier for an average person to extract 60% - 80% of the gt-r's performance than any other car, but it is far more difficult to get that last tenth out of the gt-r than any other.
i thought this was explained numerous times...
for those of you who still haven't driven the gt-r and don't understand it (but yet, still feel qualified to discredit the car):
i believe it is easier for an average person to extract 60% - 80% of the gt-r's performance than any other car, but it is far more difficult to get that last tenth out of the gt-r than any other.
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On Planet LeMans they give the results of round one of the 2009 FIA GT championship at Silverstone. A Nissan GTR (V8, I believe) placed next to last. Must admit it is a rather new car. However, the Cayman was new when it posted pretty good results in the 2007 running of the 24 hours of Nurburgring.
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For the first race ever, using 1-off parts, I think they did well when they were placing ahead of the Ford GT. What on earth does this have to do with a so-called production GT-R's alleged performance?
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Nissan engineers are supposed to be miracle workers, they were meant to be so much better and more advanced than anyone else. They should have used a stock GTR, that would have won them the race.
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Who knows? Perhaps if they allowed the AWD TTV6 version, it might have done better. But that isn't in the cards.