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Porsche questions GT-R Ring claim
30 September 2008
Paul Gover
Porsche has accused Nissan of cheating in the GT-R's record bid at the Nurburgring racetrack. Porsche has just run its own back-to-back tests with the Japanese company's GT-R supercar and says it could not get within 25 seconds of Nissan's claimed record time of seven minutes 29 seconds in April.
It also found its 911 Turbo and GT2 were both quicker than the GT-R.
"This wonder car with 7:29 could not have been a regular series production car," says August Achleitner, the 911 product chief for Porsche, speaking to the CARSguide at the Australian press preview of the latest 911 Cabrio.
"For us, it's not clear how this time is possible. What we can imagine with this Nissan is they used other tyres."
He believes the time achieved by Nissan with ex-Formula One driver Toshio Suzuki would only be possible with a semi-slick race-style tyre.
Achleitner says Porsche took a standard GT-R, running on regular road tyres, and ran it around the Nurburgring within two hours of its own cars, on the same day with exactly the same weather conditions.
He says there was no tweaking of any kind and the GT2 and Turbo both ran on regular Porsche road tyres, the Michelin Sport Cup.
"We bought the car in the US. We drove a GT-R with new tyres," he says.
Achleitner was initially protective of the exact lap times, which were run during a program when Porsche also compared its upcoming four-door Panamera with a range of potential rivals.
But he eventually revealed his team clocked the GT-R at 7 minutes 54 seconds, with the 911 Turbo managing 7:38 and the GT2 getting down to 7:34.
The laps were not run by Porsche's usual hot-lap specialist, former world rally champion and race winner Walter Rohrl, but one of the company's chassis development engineers who is an expert on the Nurburgring.
Achleitner says the back-to-back comparison was run because Porsche was concerned by Nissan's claims for the GT-R, which is heavier than the 911 with similar power.
"The Nissan is a good car. I don't want to make anything bad with my words," he says.
"It's a very consistent car. But this car is about 200 kilos heavier than the Turbo . . ."
In the end, Porsche believes its testing has achieved the right lap times for the Skyline GT-R and benchmarked it against its own 911 heroes in the right context.
"For us it has been clearly the result. This technical puzzle now fits together. With the other numbers we had problems to understand it," he says.
- Herald Sun
[출처] 포르쉐 AG, GT-R의 뉘르 타임어택에 꼼수 있었다고 주장|작성자 혼다당
드디어 포르쉐가 GT-R의 뉘르 어택 관련한 공식 언급을 한 것 같습니다. 요약하자면 꼼수가 있었던 것으로 의심된다 랍니다. 포르쉐의 성격상 랩타임을 경신하면서 행동으로 보여줄 것 같았습니다만... 어쨌든... 여러분들의 의견은 어떠신가요?
참고로, 최근 포르쉐는 "GT-R과의 대결에 자신 있다"며 <베스트모터링>지에 997 GT2를 테스트카로 제공했지만, 츠쿠바와 서일본 마제 서킷 등의 타임어택에서 'GT-R 2008년 후기형'에 뒤쳐지고 말았습니다. (아래 동영상 참조)
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아 근데 부조리의 타파를 몸소 행동으로 보여주시던 포르쉐님은 어디로 가버린 걸까.
