[s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR

[pkrasusky at ups.com]

Teddy prioritized:

<<<the viper ACR was 5 seconds faster than the R8 at laguna seca, at 1:35 vs 1:40>>>

Thanks Teddy - that sums up my 'big picture' angle well.  Five seconds is an ETERNITY!  Awesome all-out performance!

But for the other 99% use of the car for the other 99% of the time, it's a disaster.  Not many of us I know are trackstar demons enough for that 1% to preside with leverage.

Sure, best all out # - worst all out compromise.  Not to mention what you look like driving one or sound like talking about one.  Gasp!

The DBS was beauteous in this regard.  Uber performance via an Uber gentleman.  Tough combo to intertwine - and to be able to do it to those extremes is impressive.  An R8 is nail / head in that regard IMO.

Anywho...

-Paul


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From: Theodore Chen [mailto:tedebearp at yahoo.com]
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Subject: Re: [s-cars] LAC: Bond, James Bond - JNR

it depends on what your priorities are.  the viper isn't about refinement at all.  it is, however, a very fast sports car and that's what it was designed to do.

with randy pobst at the wheel, the viper ACR was 5 seconds faster than the R8 at laguna seca, at 1:35 vs 1:40.  at that level, 5 seconds is a very long time - much more than at the 1:55 vs 2:00 level.  for comparison purposes, i watched historic GTP race cars running at laguna seca a few years ago.  the electramotive nissan GTP, porsche 962, silk cut jaguar, etc. were all there.  they were running about 1:32.  to be fair, they were being driven by gentleman racers, not pro drivers, but for a street-legal car to be able to come anywhere near those cars is amazing.

i have yet to drive a ZR1, but i've driven the Z06 a number of times, and if the ZR1 is as much of an improvement over the Z06 as it appears to be on paper, i'd take that over an R8 any time.

-t.

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I tend to look at it from bigger picture than any absolute factor - too much compromise in cheaper built stuff that's too hard to ignore, 'better' rawness can only make up for so much.

-Paul