Production car class-record lap at The Nurburgring

Check this out when you guys get a chance: On-board video (with data) of the Manthey Racing Porsche GT2RS setting a production road car class-record lap at the famed Nordscheife circuit at The Nurburgring.

This video will give you an excellent feel for the circuit and the speeds these guys hit. Cray-cray, but a lot of fun!

 

Not unlike high-end audio, the degree of "diminishing returns" is getting pretty extreme w/ Nurburgring times these days.

Upgrading from this modded GT2RS to a Lotus Evija X prototype with ~2000hp will only cut another 14 seconds per lap, assuming you have the ears to hear (er, the skills to exploit) the differences.

 

AKCHUALLY -14 seconds is a ginourmous difference in racing tho.

 

True, which is why you have to pay Manthey Racing over $100,000 (conservative estimate, since I don't know which exact mods were used in the Nurburgring car) to change your $300,000 Porsche GT2 RS from a 6:48 car into a 6:43.30 car.

So I suppose the diminishing returns aren't really all that similar -- I don't know any audiophiles who would be willing to pay 30% more to get a 1.3% improvement in sound (not that we would know how to measure that -- though I suppose we could call ASR ).

 

Uff... Oh, uhm, yeah - bout these 1.3% tho... xD

 

Regardless, it's still a fun video to watch!