Stradale Impressions
Amazing car!!!
Perfect? No.
Here we go:
10 hot laps round Dijon Prenois.
F1 Gearbox, amazing, efficient, brilliant!
Best available device on the track, possibly, the great thing about it is that it makes the car extremely easy to drive, as you can then keep both hands on the wheel and concentrate on your trajectory.
On the road, depends how you shift, can send a whole vibration through the chassis in Race mode because the upshifts are so violent, downshift are better managed IMHO. Not ideal for open road IMO. Perfectly optimised for the track.
The noise is out of this world, and honestly just too loud for a road car, we were in race mode all along, and apparently it is not as loud in normal mode, but in the last lap, slow to cool the brakes, we still had to shout at eachoher to speak, and that between 3000 and 5000 rpm!!!
Radio is close to useless, a bit of a joke, but it's there.
But for me, the best feature of the car and by far are the Carbon brakes!!!!
Simply out of this world, stopping power is trumendous, much more impressive than the engine power IMO.
And same braking power after 10 laps of course.
Downsides:
The F1 gearbox in race mode can be so violent that it sends a shudder through the chassis, not ideal on long bends.
More worrying: it was weird, in straight line, 240 kmh, slam on the brakes, and it felt like the rear axle was losing itself a bit,
could the brake be so powerful that they offset the chassis integrity?
Also, another thing, good side but also downside, the wonderful neutral nature of the chassis, not tuned for understeer, maybe even a bit more oversteering in its nature, and as a result, extremely stable but also not as progressive as the 911 which is much more talkative about its behaviour, when you oversteer in the Stradale, and start spinning, by the time you try to put in opposite lock, it's usually too late, so not a car for the beginner.
It's a bit of a paradox, because the F1 makes it very easy to drive but then the tricky is on-limit handling.
Also on the downside, but that's subjective, the maintenance cost of the brakes, a set of fours disks is 20,000 Euros and the plaquettes (sorry, don't know the english term) are 2,500 euros, those need to be changed about every three track outings!!!
It's very interesting to talk to all the Stradale owners, they say that although it's based on the 360, it is so much superior! It's like a different car!
And some of them bought F430 and gave them back, still saying that the product is inferior to the Stradale, I believe them.
Overall, it's an AMAZING car!
Would I buy one, for the track yes, definitely, but let me try a GT3 RS first.
For the road, no, I don't think so. All it would do is take me to the track and back.
Perfect? No.
Here we go:
10 hot laps round Dijon Prenois.
F1 Gearbox, amazing, efficient, brilliant!
Best available device on the track, possibly, the great thing about it is that it makes the car extremely easy to drive, as you can then keep both hands on the wheel and concentrate on your trajectory.
On the road, depends how you shift, can send a whole vibration through the chassis in Race mode because the upshifts are so violent, downshift are better managed IMHO. Not ideal for open road IMO. Perfectly optimised for the track.
The noise is out of this world, and honestly just too loud for a road car, we were in race mode all along, and apparently it is not as loud in normal mode, but in the last lap, slow to cool the brakes, we still had to shout at eachoher to speak, and that between 3000 and 5000 rpm!!!
Radio is close to useless, a bit of a joke, but it's there.
But for me, the best feature of the car and by far are the Carbon brakes!!!!
Simply out of this world, stopping power is trumendous, much more impressive than the engine power IMO.
And same braking power after 10 laps of course.
Downsides:
The F1 gearbox in race mode can be so violent that it sends a shudder through the chassis, not ideal on long bends.
More worrying: it was weird, in straight line, 240 kmh, slam on the brakes, and it felt like the rear axle was losing itself a bit,
could the brake be so powerful that they offset the chassis integrity?
Also, another thing, good side but also downside, the wonderful neutral nature of the chassis, not tuned for understeer, maybe even a bit more oversteering in its nature, and as a result, extremely stable but also not as progressive as the 911 which is much more talkative about its behaviour, when you oversteer in the Stradale, and start spinning, by the time you try to put in opposite lock, it's usually too late, so not a car for the beginner.
It's a bit of a paradox, because the F1 makes it very easy to drive but then the tricky is on-limit handling.
Also on the downside, but that's subjective, the maintenance cost of the brakes, a set of fours disks is 20,000 Euros and the plaquettes (sorry, don't know the english term) are 2,500 euros, those need to be changed about every three track outings!!!
It's very interesting to talk to all the Stradale owners, they say that although it's based on the 360, it is so much superior! It's like a different car!
And some of them bought F430 and gave them back, still saying that the product is inferior to the Stradale, I believe them.
Overall, it's an AMAZING car!
Would I buy one, for the track yes, definitely, but let me try a GT3 RS first.
For the road, no, I don't think so. All it would do is take me to the track and back.
How about the steering feel? 
and carry on.
