I was pleased to hear Porsche GT line boss Andreas Preuninger say he didn’t know the new Porsche 911 S/T’s Nürburgring lap time (First drives, 27 September).
That doesn’t mean nobody knows; a Porsche engineer confided in a colleague that they did time the S/T during testing, but they still wouldn’t say what it was. Good.
Preuninger’s point remains. Times aren’t relevant to the S/T’s ethos. It’s a road car meant for drivers. It has a manual gearbox and is bound to be slower than, say, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, with which it shares its engine but not its aerodynamics.
The influence of the ’Ring potentially harms a sports car’s development. There are hot hatches designed primarily to set a time there, then sold to people who will probably never go to a track and wouldn’t time themselves even if they did.
Anyway, rather than all that, I would like to talk about another issue with the timing malarkey: consistency between track visits.
At a recent round of the Australian Supercars Championship, the whole field of 25 went out for a qualifying session. At the end, the top 10 were invited back for a one-lap ‘shootout’. Between qualifying and the shootout, though, drift cars went out to entertain the crowds.
They shredded their own kind of rubber and thus changed the surface. So the first out during the shootout quite suddenly found they had less grip than a few minutes earlier. Drivers variously called it “pretty dumb” and “like driving through oil”.
Over what would normally be a 1min 12sec lap, the differences added almost two seconds. It also made for notable inconsistency, because the drivers cleaned the track as they went, meaning those who ran later were able to go faster.
Those changes happened in just a fraction of a day on a very short circuit. Then consider the Nürburgring, with days, weeks or months between competing lap times.
Volkswagen test driver Benjamin Leuchter once found he was eight seconds slower in a Golf GTI Clubsport there than he had expected to be because of the conditions.
It can be dusty or sappy if nobody has raced on it recently and the ultraviolet radiation of harsh sunlight can bring greasy oils to the surface – and if it has rained, the surface gets washed of things both good and bad.
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Ego, male and female, massage the ego a bit and most buyers will buy, yes, it's mostly about posing for most, the ones who know what they're buying are driving them at weekends at wherever they can get a Trackday or down a runway, the driver who knows how to handle his car, that's why famous tracks,roads, mountain roads, the Green hell as it's called has cars that aren't new, are driveway specials fitted with every engine mod, trick suspension and some are faster than the Porsche and BMW's , the motor cycles zoom past too,so ,yes, lap time are just ego trips .