09-13-2016, 11:04 PM | #1 |
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Car and Driver Lightning lap (M2 and others)
Enjoy the read. And yes, the M2 beats the Focus RS...
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09-14-2016, 06:12 AM | #3 |
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2 seconds a lap faster than the Focus RS in such a demanding track and 0.1 second off the 911 GT3, an impressive showing for the M2!
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The M2 is faster than my 981S by a .7 second, and the track is where the Cayman shines, so nice effort for the M2 - I wonder how the 718S will fare in this test next year?
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07 gt3 came with crap cup 1 tires. Put some modern tires on a .1 gt3 and m2 won't be in the same zip code. The real performance is very close to the gt4 which is 8 seconds a lap faster.
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09-20-2016, 10:25 AM | #6 |
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As I already said in some other post, it's just a shame they didn't test it with dct which would've been some 2-3s faster a lap on a circuit like VIR which is very much about accelerating on long straights.
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