Bloody Hell

Don't know if this has been posted before, but this vid clip is some of the most full on driving I have ever seen. Its a new Radical SR8 doing the Ring in 6 mins 55 secs, and that is a full lap, none of this gate to gantry crap!!

The thing is, the gearing seems far from ideal. The gears seem to far spaced, I reckon it could be done quicker with a smaller final drive ratio.

PROPERLY GOING MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.fastdrive.org/download.php?view.677

Sean..

 

how quick!!!

 

YOWZA
Like you said the gear ratios seem far from ideal but does that mutha motor

 

Can't download without logging in aparently?

 

 

Then log in Rich. Worth it mate.

 

I did - holy shit, that's fast!

Absolutely insane

 

That is

Fast as fuck

 

And guess who helped Radical with all the development on the engine... ?









The latest incarnation should end up being 425bhp and this is a NORMALLY aspirated 2.6 litre .

 

thats fookin FLYING

 

Nice

 

Just watched it and the gears seem perfectly matched to me . If the final drive was any shorter, he would be bouncing off the limiter down the main straight / Flugplatz . Absolutely amazing car, shame about the price tag .

 

IMA?

SCS

 

I thought that at first Mike, but the uphill section, I think he has still got another gear. And on the straight at the end of the lap, he holds onto 5th forever and then when he finally pulls 6th, the car doesn't seem to pull the gear very well??

Just my observation.

The thing that got me the most, was how committed he is into the bloody corners. The guy is obviously very talented AND a complete loon!!!

Sean..

 

Agreed - properly twitchy coming into a couple of the corners under braking

 

Sean,
That section you first mention is a very steep hill and combined with the down-force of the car, is why it takes ages to pull 5th. If you watch the shiftlights, he gets to the end of 5th, thinks about changing to 6th, but then realises that it would bog due to the gradient, as well as the fact that in a few hundred metres he will have to change back down, so he decides to hold 5th (good call, as it doesn't accelerate any further). On the main straight, again it is uphill towards the end of the straight before going into a steep down hill section, so he holds 5th until just before he crests the rise . If you had actually driven the 'Ring, you would know this . The gradients are incredible and you get no appreciation of them without a rear view camera.

 

Mike I have driven the ring, you hofmeister bear soft shoe wearing muppet!!! I believe I overtook you several times!!

 

Have you seen some of the other vids on that site?

Carrera GT v GT700

 

gosh thats nippy

 

Obviously your memory of the circuit is as addled as your imagination .

 

If he drives like that I reckon he must walk at Charlie Chaplin speed!!

That is an impressive lap.

 

Mike,

the cars over geared. Agreed with Sean entirely. He doesn't top out his top gear at any point. When he shifts into top is basically goes no where. The real hero move is flat out of Pflantzgarten and the back end coming out

Legend!

I put the lap in a separate window vs Derek Bells 956 porsche lap. The radical does really well to be on the same page. However on the straights the porsche is needless to say...gone

RW

 

Steve,
He gets to almost max revs in top down the main straight so STFU . Any shorter and he would be hitting the limiter here and that would slow the car down considerably for the overall lap.

You're not talking about a road car, you're talking a full aero-packed track car, the down force / drag at these speeds is MEGA, hence why the accleration slows down in the higher gears. If he adjusts the wing attack, it would be on the limiter in 6th down the back straight, but the lap would probably have ended after the first high speed corner .

Perhaps the 6th gear could have been closer to have shaved 1-2s off the lap , but NOT the final drive .

I always "used" to think you knew stuff .

PS. Wait until the new 425bhp engine is finished (that would have only been the 375bhp one).

 

 

Article in todays Motorsport News:

Vergers (driver) reckons he would have been OVER 30 seconds quicker on slicks

 

yeah the gt gets wasted

 

Mike

Anyway, i just watched again a couple of times and its not topped out in top gear so top gear could be slightly lower. I'm not to sure why u would say otherwise...

ps stfu mike....

u can hardly string a lap of your kitchen table together... infact even your mum tells you off fo drifting up your fathers works driveway cos she knows your out of your depth...


RW

 

Somebody post the link please?

 

its at the top, register quickly... forget wating for a confirmation email then d/l real simple

RW

 

Steve,
Obviously you can't read, as I already said that .

 

amazing footage,,, very nice bit of driving,

that car got some serious corner speed

 

Look here you dimwitted hairdresser.

I said I felt it was over geared. I still feel that. So YOU STFU!

I know the nurburgring. I reckon it didn’t need as tall a 6th gear. If you can reduce 6th gear then great, if he can reduce all the gearing then ever better to keep it shorter sharper and with less of a rev drop between gears



RW

 

RW,
It is PEREFCTLY geared apart from 6th, and when the new engine is signed off with the extra 50bhp, it will be perfectly geared full stop, so STFU and go and buy a fast car and come and talk to me when you have done a sub 8 minute lap, as until then you are beneath me .

 

 

RAINBIRD,

Interesting how you feel like the authority on this considering its a fast car and driver we are talking about. Something you have clearly demonstrated you neither have nor are.

when i have a car with anything more than 250 bhp... i'll pass you like last time...

RW

 

Did someone speak, or was it just an insignificant 8 minuter ? If so, please learn your position in life - out the back like a Mini where you belong .

 

lol,

i recall your first trip you never even got below 10 minutes....

10 minutes?... by then i was back from cooling down the car and ready for another lap... what was this legend lap time u pulled then?

RW

 

aduz,

Which vid were u watching with te GT gets wasted? Looked head on head to me?

RW

 

Steve,
Obviously you never got to see the 9 minute lap that the guy with the Scooby STi RA videod then (you know the one whose misses you fancied ) ? Given what happened on our first time out and the weather, I'm not surprised I didn't do any better than this .

However, my second time out was significantly better, but still not as good as your second time out - but then I wasn't driving a car that almost drives itself with road tyres, let alone D01Js .

I couldn't possibly divulge this information to someone not yet in the same "cast" .

 

Mike did you get ribs removed cos you seem to be sucking your own cock