New Nurburgring Record?

Fluoxetine · Post by **Fluoxetine** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:14 pm

Not sure if anybody else has posted on this...In 18 days time BMW M Sport are having a big shindig at the Nurburgring, with all sorts of track based activity...

Nick Heidfeld will be driving an F1.07 round the Nordschleife - First time an F1 car has run there in a long time...

Bit of debate on whether it'll be a few 10 minute 'cruise rounds', with t/c off oversteer at the spectactor vantage points...

...or if he'll get the chance to have a pop at Stefan Bellof's all time record of 6:11 set in his Porsche 956...

Bear in mind racer mentality, and the fact that a Carrera GT / Zonda F can lap in 7:30 on road tyres, and the record could very well fall...

http://www.formula1.com/news/5821.html

r055 · Post by **r055** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:17 pm

that will be interesting.

just out of interest, what kind of times do our inhouse elise contingent do it in?

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:23 pm

8 mins dead is my fastest. 7 min something is possible though. Thats BTG though, so add 25 seconds for real time.

Tim S · Post by **Tim S** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:16 am

I'm chuffed if I can do it in 9 mins!

In fact, I'm chuffed each time I make it back to the car park without having hit anything

At least, I've never noticed hitting anything....

Tim

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:59 am

Its at the top of my list of things to do in the S1.

I would think that they will have to play around with suspension settings to get a good lap out of the F1 car. With all those bumps and humps - not sure a current F1 car has the suspension travel to get the most from the potential given BHP per ton and the aero these cars run!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:09 am

will be interesting to see how much/little wing they put on the cars, agreed that the lumps and bumps will be pretty unsettling for a current F1 car. Still, given the publicity generated so far, you'd think BMW would pump a few hundred grand into fettling the suspension for this alone.

I gather the official line is that its not a record attempt - aye right!!

Am I right in saying the last time a GP was raced there was when Lauda incinerated himself?

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:33 am

Have any group C racers ever ventured out I would have thought they would have been more sorted for it.

Aero wise it will be a pain as well the car is designed to be run low ride heights they crank them up a bit for Monaco and Brazil but I think they will need even more.

Post by **campbell** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:56 am

mckeann wrote:8 mins dead is my fastest. 7 min something is possible though. Thats BTG though, so add 25 seconds for real time.

I think managed it in a weekend

(a long weekend at that...)

Must get back some day...

Fluoxetine · Post by **Fluoxetine** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:12 pm

jamie wrote:Have any group C racers ever ventured out I would have thought they would have been more sorted for it.

Aero wise it will be a pain as well the car is designed to be run low ride heights they crank them up a bit for Monaco and Brazil but I think they will need even more.

The 956 that Bellof set the current record in was a group C car with slicks / groud effect...(Also the car he met his maker in, after trying to overtake round the *outside* of Eau Rouge at Spa...

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A modern LMP1 would probably manage to beat it - The Audi R10 is used to running on rough street courses in the ALMS, so would be more suited than an F1 car imho...