I was looking through lap times of different production cars, and there are some wildly out of place cars doing ring laptimes, some cars are faster than they seem they should be, while others are slower than they should be. Which got me thinking how some cars truly get tested in showroom condition, and others get the “marketing” treatment to produce a laptime a showroom car would never touch, solely to sell more cars. Then I found this article that talks exactly about just that.
https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/11012/nurburgring-times-dont-matter
Love the GT500, but can you provide a source for saying it would pull a 7:11-7:15 lap time?
That would be leaps and bounds faster than the lap times i’ve seen for it, which if memory serves is closer to 7:39. Manual ZL1 1LE put down a 7:16 flat, for reference.
Fun fact, the Viper ACR holds the record still for the fastest manual transmission Ring time, as well as fastest american car time at 7:01.3!
Officially you are right, the best time is 7:39 (#132 overall).
https://fastestlaps.com/models/ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-2013
https://fastestlaps.com/comparisons/lh235vhe828r Zl1 1le track times vs gt500, the gt500 is very close to 1le in most tracks and beats it in two, maybe on a longer track the power might give it an advantage, probably looking at 7:19-7:15 track times for the gt500 more realistically.
yeah high teens is probably doable on the S550 GT500. Again, love the car, but saying it beats the ZLE around all tracks in the US is just demonstrably not true lol
Cheaper too, zle is great, does sacrifice street livability for its times though, gt500 not so much.
Man you’re so right. A ZLE is a track car that can be driven on the street. I know of a few guys that daily them despite the stiffness, but for me the perfect daily would be the shelby.
I daily mine. It’s a ton of fun to be reminded you’re driving something special all the time. You won’t get bored. It also saves 400lbs vs the GT500, which should help slightly with consumables like brakes and tires.
A 2018 ZL1 Camaro lapped the ring at 7:16. The new GT500 beats the Camaro around all tracks in the U.S.
https://fastestlaps.com/models/ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-s550
So it’s somewhere between a 991.2 GT3 (7:12)and a ZL1 Camaro (7:16)
Nah, ZLE is faster around most
I suspect it’s because the GT500 was tested without the track pack which adds the Cup 2’s. I know for Leguna Seca they had the CFTP.
https://fastestlaps.com/tests/uhk1c6v3dgba
At Eurospeedway they had the normal version with the PS4’s which the 1LE beat. Or the 1LE is just faster in general. I didn’t check every lap time before I made my blanketed statement.