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How fast, how long and who's quickest. We take a look at the performance of the cars in detail (and find out that the ACO figures are wrong!)

Racecar Engineering / Speed TV.com trap speeds
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/a...ner-times.html

Taken on the entry to the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight during qualifying.

Peugeot 908 - 212.4 mph
Audi R10 TDI - 207.8
Dome S102 - 207.2
Lola B08/60 - 206.6
Epsilon Euskadi - 206.1
Pescarolo 01 - 202.2
Embassy WF01 - 196.4
Porsche RS Spyder - 194.3
RML Lola - 185.8

ACO trap speeds published after the same session we and some of the teams feel these are incorrect

Peugeot 908 - 207.8 MPH
Dome S102 - 207.8
Audi R10 - 205.5
Lola B08/60 - 205.5
Pescarolo 01 - 204.9
Epsilon Euskadi - 201.24

Corvette C6R - 303kph ~ 188 mph
Aston Martin DBR9 - 299kph ~185.4 mph

pex speeds taken at the Dunlop chicane


Audi R10 TDI - 79.8 mph
Peugeot 908 - 77.8
Oreca - 77.2
Pescarolo 01 - 76.4
Porsche RS Spyder - 74.5
Lola B08/60 - 73.6
Radical - 72.9
RML Lola - 72.6
Creation - 70.8
Epsilon Euskadi - 70.5
Zytek - 69.8
Corvette C6R - 69.8
Terramos - 69.2
Lola AER - 69.1
Dome - 67.7
Tokai - 67.6
Ferrari F430 - 67.5
Porsche 911 GT3 RSR - 67.2
Spyker C8 Laviolette - 66.3

Corner times

Car/ Time taken / average speed
Porsche curves

Peugeot 908 - 15.564s - 260.85kph
Audi R10 TDI - 16.844s - 241.03kph
Zytek 07S - 17.157s - 236.63kph
Pescarolo 01 - 17.300s - 234.68kph
Porsche RS Spyder - 17.522s - 231.71kph
Lola Judd - 17.686s - 229.56kph
Courage LC70 (ORECA) - 17.825s - 227.77kph
Dome S102 - 18.158s - 220.16
Courage LC70 (Terramos) - 18.585s - 218.45kph

Aston Martin DBR9 - 20.568s - 197.39kph
Corvette C6R - 21.024s - 193.11kph

Ford Chicane

Zytek 07S - 5.501s - 169.20kph
Peugeot 908 - 5.512s - 168.86kph
Audi R10 TDI - 5.552s - 167.65kph
Pescarolo 01 - 5.554s - 167.65kph
Courage LC70 (ORECA) - 05.671s - 164.13kph
Embassy WF01 - 5.777s - 161.12kph

Corvette C6R - 6.362s - 146.30
Aston Martin DBR9 - 6.637s - 140.24kph

Joy of 6

Wow, am amazed at the difference in cornering speeds. Quite a large spread for the classes of cars. Top speed is as expected