CURRENT TOYS:
PORSCHE GT2 RS MR
PORSCHE CAYMAN 718 GTS MR
TESLA MODEL 3 PERFORMANCE MOUNTAIN PASS P
MUSTANG FASTBACK 1968 BY DM PERFORMANCE
BMW 1200 GSA LC
First edition of the track day gran turismo event KING OF NURBURGRING!
Organized by the famous track day organisator GRAN TURISMO EVENT, owned and managed by Peter Ternstorm, the idea was to create one ultra private day with only experienced nurburgring drivers and top class cars at a maximum numbers of 100 CARS (normally all nurburgring track day are between150/200 cars)
The game was simple, the official lap timing was activated on that day with a track opened from 8am till 5PM, free driving for this period with 0 closure on that day!!
Every cars get a transponder and the official lap timing appear on a TV screen into the devil diner.
There was Three CUP to win:
Car class between 300 till 520hp SPORT CLASS winner 997 GT3
Between 530 till 630hp SUPER CLASS: WINNER M2 COMPETITION 550HP
Above 630HP HYPER CLASS: ME IN THE GT2 RS MANTHEY RACING
The day was full wet except few half dry wet moment who was a bit faster to drive but very changing and so challenging and dangerous to drive.
A lot of car just not participate and we were around 60 cars to drive on that day instead 100, which is nothing on that track!!
The law was to only use street legal tire and then if slick or SLICK rain was used during the day, there were no classment challenge because not street legal.
A lot of people started the day on semi slick or extreme semi slick but it was off course impossible to drive at a decent speed into that condition with this kind of tire.
Then my choice was to wear immediately a set of MICHELIN PS4 S into the oem dimension
(thanks again Michelin motorsport for the dot and TESTING opportunity!!)
Every other car on that day (principally gt2 RS and gt3 rs, had the possibility to wear that tire at MANTHEY garage 5kms far from the track in just 30min working, but that is sometimes not enough...
The rain driving at NURBURGRING is tricky and you need to use specific line and very gentle driving style whatever cars and tire you use!
Finally i stetted a full lap in 9.38min (btg of 9.15min) on half wet and dry track, the absolute best lap on street legal TIRE for that day was in 9.19min full lap by a Modified BMW M2 COMPETITION with 550HP and FALKEN TIRE + rain setup+KW competition etc (i do not remember the preparation team who made that car)
Congrat to him!
The second best laptime on street legal tire was me and after one hole of 20seconds for the other car who was a lot of 991 GT3 RS on sport cup 2 or PS4s aswell.
Really fun for all of us who are not pro driver, but very interesting challenge where you can choose the weapon and let's talk the OFFICIAL lap timing on the track to tell us the truth :-)
the cars available on that day was incredible with FERRARI pista, FF, nissan gtr, lamborghini urus, 8 991 GT2 rs, GT3 RS of every color and setup lamborghini huracan perf, aventador etc...
Again as you can see the GT2 rs with a respectful driving can do something great even on a wet nurburgring track :-)
The lamborghini huracan that you can see in the video is a special custom made model with two turbo and 1200HP! (Best lap of the day in 9.25 full lap but no classment because rain slick)
On this lap the lamb decided to wear slick tire!! The first part of the track was fully wet and started to be dry from wipperman section, is why i overtook him and after that he passed me again, that car on a dry day is offcourse something insanely fast, but on a wet day 1200HP is a bit tricky ahahah
CONDITION OF THE LAP:
Half wet half dry
8°C temp
wind 40/50km/h
CAR:
991 GT2 RS with manthey racing camber setup (classic dry setup) on oem suspension, stab bar front on HARD rear soft (perfect rain setup is SOFT/SOFT)
Michelin PS4S almost new with 2.2 BAR FRONT and 2,5 BAR rear pressure
stock engine