Porsche shatters the Nürburgring record we thought was unbreakable
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#3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFjHjm0O5M
He spent a fair amount of time bouncing off the rev limiter on the straightaway. Car could have used an eighth gear.
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#5That V4 they have. Quite a remarkable engine. No comparison to the piece of "space age" crap that was Zaporozetz's magnesium alloy V4.
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#6I have been able to look under the bonnet of this car, this has nothing to do at all with how you imagine a car - pure high tech. And during the race, the complications caused due to the massive Battery force the people around the Race Track for emergency purposes to look like in a weird fetish movie: Rubber Boots, Rubber GLoves, Face masks, huge mats made out of rubber to stand on during rescue... And then seeing this car on the track... mental. I have seen many a great race on the Nordschleife, but that... Holy shit you get a spinal injury just trying to follow that thing flying past.
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#7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFjHjm0O5M
He spent a fair amount of time bouncing off the rev limiter on the straightaway. Car could have used an eighth gear.
Eighth? Slow down there. The car comes with 4, 5 being an add-on package. It could also use more than 52HP. I suspect you might be commenting on the video in the article, rather than this comment with a video of a 1993 Citroën AX 14D.
Regarding the Porsche, I doubt it would have been useful. The car maxed out at 369km/h, and was unable to maintain the speed for long. I doubt it has the torque to pull further ahead in an eighth gear. Furthermore, the heavier gearbox would weigh the car down for the entire race, and the shift to eighth would by itself cost the car a little bit of time.
It seemed like everything was actually quite well balanced. It was only maxed out for a tiny moment, so it seemed to be the perfect balance between lightweight and brute force.
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#8It wasn't unbreakable, nobody was trying to break it. Nobody wants to risk multi-million dollar, one-of-a-kind race cars on that track just for bragging rights.
An unrestricted F1 car could've smashed the record at any point in the last 20 years.
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#9I have been able to look under the bonnet of this car, this has nothing to do at all with how you imagine a car - pure high tech. And during the race, the complications caused due to the massive Battery force the people around the Race Track for emergency purposes to look like in a weird fetish movie: Rubber Boots, Rubber GLoves, Face masks, huge mats made out of rubber to stand on during rescue... And then seeing th…
It would be terrifying to be in the car.
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#10The amount of bouncing around at 300+ kph is terrifying to watch