Ford mustang shelby gt350r at lightning lap 2016 duration. Here are some of the more interesting times, the rest is n the pictures below. Its when a car has to be made streetlegal and reasonably maintainable that meaningful performance comparisons can be made. Randy seems to be a good enough driver that it doesnt take him long to learn how a car behaves and wring out most of the available performance. This good headline, however, will hopefully persuade lexus to make a lightning lap edition production car out of the oneoff race car, a. Read on to see how porsche broke all of our previous lightning lap records. Of all the dynamic secrets lightning lap reveals, this. They changed from listing times from 5 small sections of the track to 5 full sectors in 2014 as shown below.
For 2019 weve brought 21 of the hottest cars, a normcore one, and a classic from the 90s. Car and driver returns to vir for lightning lap no. Chevrolet camaro zl1 1le hot lap at vir lightning lap 2017 car and driver duration. Also cant wait to see motortrends drivers car article as randy.
Mercedesamg e63 s hot lap at vir lightning lap 2017. The model 3 performance would fall into their ll2 class. For the seventh time, we put the years hottest performance cars to the ultimate test. Check out the rest of the 20 lightning lap action here.
Listen to car and driver magazine soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create ann arbor. Car and driver just held their annual lightning lap competition for 2015 and according to the results, the 2015 corvette z06 not only won its class, but dominated the entire competition by finishing fastest overall. Id assume chevys test driver has quite a few c8 laps under his belt while id assume the magazine tester of the porsche probably had. Tony quiroga car and driver cars, track, smoking tire. Heres the link to all of the car and driver lightning lap times. The latest car and driver issue with the rendering of the midengine 2017 corvette zora on the cover also features the results from the magazines annual lightning lap competition where the latest stockunmodified offerings from selected manufacturers are raced against the clock at virginia international raceway. Car and driver brings the worlds largest car magazine to youtube. Heres everything you need to know about the c8 corvette. I also wanted to know how the mustang ecoboost with performance package would fair. But it doesnt make a car fun to drive in the twisties. Lexus lc 500 holds its own in lightning lap showdown. Car and driver magazine october 2018 lightning lap 12. Weve been lapping cars there for more than a decade.
Car and drivers annual lightning lap around virginia international see how your favorite cars did. Get the lap times, sector data, and more from lightning lap 2017, number 11 in our annual series. We bring you the latest and greatest from the worlds automotive industry. I think it is interesting to compare to car and drivers lightning lap list. I am also making custom tracks with car and drivers sectors as used in their lightning lap so hlt users can compare to cars they have tested. Despite the unlucky anniversary, our luck this year wasnt too bad. He and his team at cd just published their lightning lap comparison, where they take some of this years best drivers cars to virginia international raceway to see how they compare, regardless of price. Car and driver 2019 lamborghini urus at lightning lap. Because bmw is a sports car company, not a luxury car company, all of their vehicles. Yes but that was a new thing specifically for the 2017 year maybe also the 2016 not sure but dumb dumb dumblol. Car and driver m4 and m235i lightning laps bmw car club. Among the hundreds of vehicles car and driver has hotlapped at virginia international raceway, these are the quickest with four doors.
Car and driver just released the videos and article for 2017 lightning lap. The z06 recorded the secondfastest time in the nineyear history of car and drivers lightning lap test. Watch the 2018 mercedesamg e63 ss full fast lap of the 4. Chevrolet camaro zl1 1le hot lap at vir lightning lap. They did road tests, and then put randy in the car on the track. Today, that lap doesnt even land in the fastest third of a record book that. Following the first lightning lap supertest in 2006, car and driver returned at virginia international raceway to perform an epic car speed test at 4. Tony quiroga is a senior editor at car and driver magazine, and secret funny person. It would be really interesting if you lapped vir in a formula 1 car so we could see the difference between a toplevel race car and a streetlegal car. View all of our lightning lap track tests at virginia international raceway. Car and driver when we started lightning lap years ago, a 2006 ford gt claimed the fast time with a 3. The annual lightning lap roundup from car and driver is easily one of our favorite car magazine features of any of the past five years. The lightning lap should be for production big dogsnot beckys jetta with the hello kitty sticker in the back window please arthur fonzarelli, dont jump that damn shark.
Given, my car is modified, but most of those increase longevity of the tires and brakes and not so. Bmw m2 competition lightning lap by car and driver. Since 2006, we have conducted an annual track test at virginia international raceway vir that we call lightning lap. Both of my previous gtis had the plaid seats with sunroof, while i usually do prefer leather the plaid seats look better to me and retro. Featured autos for sale near you right now car and drivers yearly lightning lap test results are in, and to say the new camaro 1le put in a good showing would be the understatement of the year. Weve got a gallery of shots from the event below provided courtesy of car and driver and a list of all. Im a big fan of what chevy has done with the c8, but the lap time comparison to the carrera s is probably not fair. Corvette stingray runs car and drivers lightning lap but. American automotive magazine car and driver did it again. Is the difference the car, the driver or a combination of both. Ru disappointed the c8 is not in car and driver lightning lap this year. We break records at our lightning lap event at virginia international raceway. Despite lexus insistence on the matter, the lc 500 is, in fact, a pretty good sports car.
Other cars 2020 supra at car and driver lightning lap the new. In recent years we have been rather fortunate to see the cars competing in their lightning lap segment on video, courtesy of. Bmw f10 m5 on car and drivers lightning lap autoevolution. Last time the fastest was midengined ford gt which set a record time 3.
Thats not all, because porsche entered two additional cars in the lightning lap competition, a brand new gt3 which ran just 9. October, 2019 as the quickest suv weve ever lapped at virginia international raceway. Car and driver is the independent, witty and definitive voice in automotive journalism. Stream tracks and playlists from car and driver magazine on your desktop or mobile device. Car and driver magazine has a special section called lightning lap where they test cars based on their price tags. In the eighth installment of the car and driver lightning lap the allnew m4 and m235i took to the tarmac of virginia international raceway to see how they measure up to the competitionpast and present the competition classes in the lightning lap are set up by price range. Chevrolet camaro zl1 1le hot lap at vir lightning lap 2017 car and driver. Car and driver magazine free listening on soundcloud. Bmw m5 competition at car and drivers lightning lap. According to gvirish on reddit, the lap times of car and driver magazines lightning lap around the virginia international raceway have been leaked for this year and the results are rather surprising heres a behind the scenes video to show you. These 20 cars laid down the quickest lap times at virginia international. From the annual 10best awards to the lightning lap feature, auto enthusiasts around the world rely on car.
Lightning lap 2017 lap times and data car and driver. Car and driver magazine october 2018 lightning lap 12 on. Its been 12 years now, with 242 laps on the alltime lightning lap register. Car and drivers annual lightning lap around virginia. Previous story 2015 audi tt driver being an idiot on the highway video. We take the hottest new cars to measure lap times around the 4. Readers whined that lightning lap isnt relevant to them, so here we are, lapping a camry. He ran a couple timed laps and that was probably about it. In the 2011 lightning lap, the sti beat the wrx by 2. Tracking us it is interesting to see how streetlegal cars are achieving ever more remarkable times in lightning lap lightning lap the th, november 2019. Not only that, the corvette z06 was so fast that in the nine years of car and drivers lightning laps, only one other car has finished faster.
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