Ferrari 599XX Breaks 7 Minute Barrier On The Nurburgring

ikillcopiers

The ultimate current Ferrari has just set an astounding time at the Green Hell,
doing a lap in a shade under 7 minutes.

At € 1.1 million, there's only going to be 29 built, and isn't road legal.

It's the first car Ferrari have built that is faster around their test track with the electronics switched on.

Link to the article and a video of the lap here.

It will be interesting to see how the new 599 GTO compares to this time.

Absurdum

if it's not road legal, they might as well have just stuck an F1 car on it!

JHMEG

Would have been some feat if it had been road legal.

PrettyBoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJj8atDGBzk

Absurdum

Skoda Superb can do it in 4 minutes, in reverse, still returning 89mpg Zzzzz

cadaliac

Absurdum wrote: »

if it's not road legal, they might as well have just stuck an F1 car on it!

still pretty cool though.

rabbitinlights

JHMEG wrote: »

Would have been some feat if it had been road legal.

Like the radical SR8 that drove from the UK and did a 6.48 on the same tyres and then drove home again (on the same tyres)

Ferrari bullshít again.

S.

ikillcopiers

rabbitinlights wrote: »

Like the radical SR8 that drove from the UK and did a 6.48 on the same tyres and then drove home again (on the same tyres)

Ferrari bullshít again.

S.

That's a fair point, the Radical SR8 LMS did do a faster time,
but it's apple and oranges, they're completely different ends of the spectrum.

The Radical is effectively a ground up race car that's road legal,
the Ferrari is a modified production car.

Granted, the price difference is immense, but it's nice to see Ferrari
doing something like this instead of another sports car that carries
golf clubs down to the country club.

Regardless, it's an awesome video.

bad2dabone

Absurdum wrote: »

Skoda Superb can do it in 4 minutes, in reverse, still returning 89mpg Zzzzz

is there nothing the Skoda Superb can't do!

dunsandin

bad2dabone wrote: »

is there nothing the Skoda Superb can't do!

No.Nothing. Moses drove his across the red sea, and got 75.6mpg. The sea bed caused a bit of drag.

Erren Music

Ford transit time 10 minutes and 8 second.

dunsandin

That bird driving the Transit was a cracker. I think my transit could do a sub 9 min run, ive blanked the egr and turned up the pump. Might have to take out the tools though, a ton or so of metal can wreak havoc with your lap times on that old Nurburgring.

unkel

dunsandin wrote: »

I think my transit could do a sub 9 min run

I think not

daveharnett

ikillcopiers wrote: »

The Radical is effectively a ground up race car that's road legal, the Ferrari is a modified production car.

I'm guessing that it is mechanically unrecognizable as the original production car. Sure it's bigger and probably heavier than the radical, which makes it an impressive piece of engineering, but it's no 'better' in any functional sense - all the extra space is full of scaffolding and it offers no more creature comforts or seats than the radical.

Tyres aside, what can they have done to the car that it can't be made legal?
If the road-legal lotus 7 lookalikes are anything to go by, the legal requirements for low volume cars are pretty non-existent (lights, tyres and safety belts?).

daveharnett

dunsandin wrote: »

That bird driving the Transit was a cracker. I think my transit could do a sub 9 min run, ive blanked the egr and turned up the pump. Might have to take out the tools though, a ton or so of metal can wreak havoc with your lap times on that old Nurburgring.

Maybe if you replaced the tools in the back with a few thousand hp worth of engines? Go on, check your euromillions numbers

tossy

bad2dabone wrote: »

is there nothing the Skoda Superb can't do!

No is the simple answer,Chuck Norris drives a Skoda superb that says it all for me!

PrettyBoy

dunsandin wrote: »

That bird driving the Transit was a cracker.

Eh...not really.

http://wonderingbrit.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/neues-bild8.jpg

Lurching

daveharnett wrote: »

Tyres aside, what can they have done to the car that it can't be made legal?
If the road-legal lotus 7 lookalikes are anything to go by, the legal requirements for low volume cars are pretty non-existent (lights, tyres and safety belts?).

Id imagine its something to do with safety ratings? If its not dangerous for occupants, it could be the perfect shape to de-limb pedestrians or the like. Im sure Ferrari could do without the bad PR of releasing a car like that.

daveharnett

Lurching wrote: »

Id imagine its something to do with safety ratings? If its not dangerous for occupants, it could be the perfect shape to de-limb pedestrians or the like. Im sure Ferrari could do without the bad PR of releasing a car like that.

That makes a certain amount of sense.

I can't imagine that there's a problem with occupant protection. If anything, track-oriented modified production cars are safer than the originals. Four point harnesses, custom seats, stiffer chassis, fire extinguishers, hardened fuel tanks etc more than compensate for the loss of airbags, driver aids and weight reduction.

Lurching wrote: »

it could be the perfect shape to de-limb pedestrians

:pac: <pictures razor-sharp splitter at ankle height>

Vertakill

PrettyBoy wrote: »

Eh...not really.

http://wonderingbrit.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/neues-bild8.jpg

Agreed.
Sabine Schmitz ... with the theme song "Dude looks like a lady".

Good driver though!

daveharnett

PrettyBoy wrote: »

Eh...not really.

http://wonderingbrit.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/neues-bild8.jpg

Still... Well heeled, doesn't object to driving fast, goes sideways on demand (sfw:D). If she owned a brewery, she'd be pretty close to the perfect woman.

ikillcopiers

daveharnett wrote: »

I'm guessing that it is mechanically unrecognizable as the original production car. Sure it's bigger and probably heavier than the radical, which makes it an impressive piece of engineering, but it's no 'better' in any functional sense - all the extra space is full of scaffolding and it offers no more creature comforts or seats than the radical.

Tyres aside, what can they have done to the car that it can't be made legal?
If the road-legal lotus 7 lookalikes are anything to go by, the legal requirements for low volume cars are pretty non-existent (lights, tyres and safety belts?).

OK, I think I'm getting taken a bit out of context.

I regard neither the Radical SR8 or the Ferrari 599XX as production cars.

I posted the post because
A) It's a class video
I'm so happy to see Ferrari doing something PERFORMANCE after years
pandering to Beverly Hills socialites, and recently announcing all future
Ferrari's will be automatic (NARRRRGGGGGHHHHH !)

I love both cars, and the Radical is faster of the two, end of.

But also to consider is the very open SVA system in the UK.
The Radical is registered under this kind of a system, and it is effectively
a kit car.
The Ferrari could just as easily be registered as a road car in the UK
with the addition of lights, number plates and one or two other small items.

What a lot of people do not realise is that type legislation on the continent
is far tougher than in UK & Ireland.

Kit cars aren't legal in France, Belgium and several other countries.
Most countries you have to have a certificate of conformity to EU standards,
most kit cars (with the exception of perhaps Caterham & Westfield) do not
have this, it's far too expensive for them to obtain.

Similarly, modified cars aren't allowed for in most countries.
In Belgium & France the car has to be mechanically identically to it's original
manufacture, hence something like a 599XX would not be road legal.

Sufficed to say, the Radical SR8 is road legal in the UK, but it is very
unlikely it would be road legal in the rest of Europe.

In my eyes, the fastest production car is the Gumbert Apollo (TUV and road
legal most likely all the EU),
and the fastest all out time was Stefan Belloff in a Porsche 956 back in 1983,
the Radical and 599XX are in a grey area in between.

I like both cars, make no question about it, but they are not production cars!

dunsandin

The bird I was on about was the one on top gear - maybe I have funny taste, but she looked good to me. Went fast too.

PrettyBoy

dunsandin wrote: »

The bird I was on about was the one on top gear - maybe I have funny taste, but she looked good to me. Went fast too.

Sabine is the one that was on Top Gear.

paddydriver

She is still driving the M5 Ring Taxi at the Nurburgring too - one of the lads from work was there the weekend before last and he had photo's of her in the M5. Was booked out all weekend so he was not able to get out for a spin.

I went around a few years back with one of the other drivers in the M5 - what a drive! Just waiting for the price on the M5 to sink a little lower and I am getting a weekend car:D