Porsche 911 GT2 RS *now with pics*
05-08-2010, 08:44 AM
#51
Originally Posted by JonBoy,May 6 2010, 12:39 PM
You mean, catching up to it as in spinning it out a bunch of times, wrecking wheels, tires, and body panels, but eventually learning how to drive it thanks to all the constant beating and losing control?
I don't think I'd be tracking a car like this without having mastered cars with 300, 400, and 500 hp beforehand.
I don't think I'd be tracking a car like this without having mastered cars with 300, 400, and 500 hp beforehand.
I can appreciate the argument that a 911 GT2 RS is too much car for most people. My boosted Miata is currently faster than my driving skills are capable of driving it and I have yet to have crash it or do any of the other things that you described.
Maybe my car is weird but it has this thing hanging down from the dash that is kind of like a dimmer switch for my car's horsepower output. I think I read online that it's called an "accelerator pedal", but I don't understand technobabble like that so I could be mistaken. In any event, I utilize this feature by varying the amount of pressure that my right foot (I tried it with the left and that didn't work) applies to the pedal and it has a direct impact on how much power my car puts down. It's an amazing bit of technology. You just have to be sure that you don't get the velocotator mixed up with the deceleratrix.
In all seriousness, a 600 hp car IS a 300 hp car, 400 hp car, 443.255 hp car, etc. Just don't push it harder than you can safely go and you will eventually learn the limits.
My big problem is braking my Miata without locking it up. I have some pretty grabby brakes and I am just not used to them yet (I have only driven on them a handful of miles and a track day). Whenever I would come up the straight I would pass whoever I needed to pass and then back off of the throttle so that I wasn't going a bazillion miles an hour into the first turn. I'm sure there are a lot of people who have trouble knowing when to back off, but it really is that simple.
05-08-2010, 05:50 PM
#53
Mr. EG, I'll look for your next weekend at MSR. Should be a good weekend!
05-08-2010, 05:59 PM
#54
Ehh, I'm not going to be there after all. Next week is finals week and I have to fly to Kentucky for a day for work so I am probably not going to have time to put my car back together and get it ready for the track.
Chris will be there with his Miata.
I really wanted to go but it's just not in the cards for me this time.
Chris will be there with his Miata.
I really wanted to go but it's just not in the cards for me this time.
05-11-2010, 05:36 PM
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Official pictures
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/11/more-le...-shown-to-vips/
The 3,020-pound GT2 RS gets 620 twin-turbocharged horses from its 3.6-liter engine, making it the most powerful Porsche you can legally put on the roads. That's 90 more horses pushing 154 pounds less weight than in the previous version, and it gets five percent better fuel economy. Ground control is handled with tires specifically created for the car, carrying it from zero to sixty miles per hour in 3.4 seconds. On the one hand, that's 0.3 slower than the Porsche Turbo S; on the other, there's a 205 mph top speed and a 7:18 'Ring time.
Note too the matte carbon fiber bodywork and the black and red Alcantara interior. It'll go on proper show in Moscow later this year, and it'll run $245,000 when deliveries begin in October. Follow the jump for the release, and be on the lookout for three horsemen and a water-cooled boxer...
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/11/more-le...-shown-to-vips/
The 3,020-pound GT2 RS gets 620 twin-turbocharged horses from its 3.6-liter engine, making it the most powerful Porsche you can legally put on the roads. That's 90 more horses pushing 154 pounds less weight than in the previous version, and it gets five percent better fuel economy. Ground control is handled with tires specifically created for the car, carrying it from zero to sixty miles per hour in 3.4 seconds. On the one hand, that's 0.3 slower than the Porsche Turbo S; on the other, there's a 205 mph top speed and a 7:18 'Ring time.
Note too the matte carbon fiber bodywork and the black and red Alcantara interior. It'll go on proper show in Moscow later this year, and it'll run $245,000 when deliveries begin in October. Follow the jump for the release, and be on the lookout for three horsemen and a water-cooled boxer...
05-11-2010, 07:32 PM
#58
3020 lbs! That's LIGHT for a car like this. Less than five pounds per hp!
