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mp said:
Here we go again!!

There just isn't much between any of the following cars, as Sport Auto test results show:

1. 7.46 Gallardo SL
2. 7.48 997GT3
3. 7.48 997GT3 RS (shouldn't it be faster??)
4. 7.49 Z06
5. 7.52 Ford GT
6. 7.52 MB SLR
7. 7.52 Gallardo (original model)
8. 7.54 997 Turbo
9. 7.55 F430 F1

As you can see, 9 seconds separates all of these car, driven on different days, with different tires etc. Just very little difference on a 20+km track. It also demonstrates how difficult it is to lap under 8 minutes.





Completely agree IMO it's just ridiculous to claim, that one car got "spanked" by another car by achieving a 2 sec gain
Please bear in mind that NoS is not a track - even if you could reproduce the same test conditions (one driver in exactly the same mood/fitness on all test days , same weather conditions) there is still the fact that NoS is a "living road". What do I mean by "living road": when was the latest race (á la VLN) leaving lot of rubber on the street, when was the latest heavy rain washing away the dust from the street etc
+/- 5 sec on NoS means nothing.
As for real world performance Stefan Winkelmann, Lamborghini's CEO seems to have a quite realistic view - in one of the recent Sport Auto issues he said: we all know what it means to achieve a NoS laptime < 9 minutes (yes, he said 9 min, not 8 min - may have been a typo though )