Mind you I also like how F1 cars look without rear wings.A second faster than F1, but 12 seconds faster than lmp1 (which it ran last year).It isn't. Then you can divide all those laps up in categories, by non-series, by F1, by sportscars, GT3, etc. That time was an unofficial lap record for the circuit. There is - or at least there was, I can't find it on youtube anymore :/ - an amateur video taken from the Bahrain(?)

They said they hit over 350kmh. But it'll be forgotten soon enough. Not only was it 0.783s quicker that Lewis Hamilton's outright lap record, set during the 2017 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, but it was also more than 12 seconds quicker than the 919 Hybrid's pole position time for last year's 6 Hours of Spa. An F1 car should still be going a lot faster around a circuit like Spa.An LMP1 would lose out. All this proves is how much regulations are designed to hold cars back.Yeah agreed, especially if their GT2 RS on nominally road tyres is able to do 6:47 whilst being 80% heavier.The 919 is AWD right?
The power alone would be worth a few seconds a lap at a place like Spa. The overall track record at Laguan Seca is 1minute 5.786 seconds, set by Marc Gene in 2012, behind the wheel of a Ferrari F2003-GA.Before that though the 919 will perform a 'demo lap' of the,https://uk.motor1.com/news/238746/porsche-919-spa-record/,Porsche reveals how Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid works,New Land Rover Defender takes off all camo in exclusive rendering,Bugatti La Voiture Noire debuts in Geneva: Most expensive new car ever,Range Rover Sentinel is a mobile fortress now with more power,Pininfarina Battista revealed as most powerful Italian road car ever. During qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix on August 25th, 2018, three Formula 1 drivers beat the Porsche 919 Evo lap record at Spa. That Porsche was making 1160hp......The front of the 919 Evo looks so much better than the normal car. It is a PR exercise in the end, but out of it we get the sight of a de-restricted racing car eating up a racetrack.They're only talking about a demo lap. I hope Porsche take out adverts all over F1 websites, broadcasts etc pointing out that they've built the world's fastest race car.Not really any way of making a shortcut at Spa.I’m amazed by this. But it just reminds me of the pointlessness of when BAR took a heavily modified F1 car to the Bonneville salt flats (though in true BAR style, they failed to do anything of note).Awesome and pointless aren't mutually exclusive in general.

It is definitely the fastest car I ever drove,' Jani said after his run. Nobody is surprised that cars can go faster by loosening the restrictions put on them by regulations.I'm sure you could configure an F1 car to go below 1:40 without too much problems.What a cool farewell tour. This looks like a modern Group C car.Neel Jani saying on Twitter telemetry indicated 307 kph MINIMUM speed through Eau Rouge/Raidillon.I think it just shows how powerful CFD and high tech materials are.It's still 849kg plus the driver. Let alone removing aero restrictions. 'The grip level is at a fully new dimension for me. Not only was it 0.783s quicker that Lewis Hamilton's outright lap record, set during the 2017 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, but it was also more than 12 seconds quicker than the 919 Hybrid's pole position time for last year's 6 Hours of Spa. And in this case they definitely aren't. The car, which in its various different guises took 17 wins from 33 races on its way to three straight,However, the car they're using isn't quite the same 919 Hybrid that won the.Recently Porsche took the modified 919 Hybrid to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium where Neel Jani, who raced the 919 Hybrid in every one of its races, lapped the 4.35-mile circuit in just 1:41.770s. Sounds almost identical to how it did at Le Mans at all 3 races I heard it.EVeryone going for lap records with ruleless cars, well, what could possibly go wrong ?That video gave more sense of speed (and in the case of Eau Rouge, height differences) than any of the "professional" footage I've ever seen in Spa.The drag the open wheels of an F1 car produce is enormous.With a more effective diffuser the also draggy rear wing can be reduced.If they wanted, they could build an extremely quick F1 car.Not sure they could put the word "race" in there, could they?But regardless, tonnes of fun project - thanks for posting about it VictorRO!

And they're likely to go to some other tracks as well to try and beat lap records.How does one count these laps if we know that they are set with a racing car that no longer applies to any active rule set?

So much for people saying it wasn’t the LMP regs causing ugly cars.That was my first thought too. If the 919 is matching 2017 F1 cars at Spa then it should easily smoke the 956's time.Depends on the track owners I think to begin with. '.The 919 Hybrid is powered by a 2-litre V4 engine mated to a pair of energy recovery systems – one recovering energy from the brakes, the other fromt he exhaust. Still the same 2-liter V4 as before, only without fuel restrictors and with increased turbo and hybrid boost. Well... some people in Weissach have apparently set out to show what they can do if a racing car built to a set of rules can be tweaked to go faster by going outside those rules.

I couldn’t imagine this amount beforehand. The engine 'only' makes 720ps, which is probably at least 100hp below F1, the hybrid/ers makes 440ps, which is slightly higher than it normally does. F1 has drs in the rear.

Select Language English Dansk Deutsch Español Français Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Русский Suomi Tiếng Việt 简体中文 हिन्दी العربية … As such, anybody with the resources to build an "ultimate" race car without rules could theoretically easily break lap records.It's something about the mandated headlight "bricks" that makes the LMPs so ugly.
It almost looks nice.