skank

Lost it on the very first corner after the start timing line. Not good, OOPS

sunsalem

Ah crap.

I'm sure they were smart enough to bring several spare cars...

Still, it hurts if that was the only yellow they have on hand; would have been great see the official run in the C7R colors....

skank

Patrick Herrmann doesn't have his suit on. It looks like it was only Mero in the car. He could have been doing his timed hot lap.

heavychevy

Sounded like lower than normal revs. Like installation laps more than flying laps.

svtkeith

Ouch!! Damn it....

skank

Dale Lomas (Bridge to Gantry) shot this photo of the ZO6 with the level 1 aero package. Looks like they may have only one Level 3 aero car there. Dammit. I doubt they will try a timed hot lap with a level 1 aero package.

Halltech

The 3LZ/Z07 package comes with the Performance Data Recorder:

Example on the Stingray:

skank

I looked at a large map of the Nordschliefe and watched the ZR1 Ring video that I posted on page 2. The Hatzenbach corner isn't the very first corner like I thought. It is further down the track. The accident photo shows the ZO6 at the end of the tire barrier where the armco is painted white. If you watch the ZR1 video and stop it at the 22-23 second portion of the lap timer clock thats being shown on upper middle portion of the video, you can see where he went off. At that location he going 73-76 mph with the ZR1. I also watched the Z28 video from last year and Adam was going 70-73 with the Z28. Mero must have really been pushing it if he went off in a mid 70 mph corner. Ironically, I also watched the Porsche 918 lap record breaking video to see how fast the 918 was going at that corner. The video didn't have a timer on it like the ZR1 video. But you can see the 918 speedometer showing 114-125kph as he is going through there. That converts to 71-77mph. Mero must have been up in the upper 70 range too. WOW.

Glenn Quagmire

That area of the track is notorious for Big Foot sightings. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Dom Farnbacher was seen putting on the costume and running around near the fence.

gary0006

Here is another pic:



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SBC_and_a_stick

Looks better than the NSX after a lap at the green hell:



Nurburgring lap records are so idiotic.

jklein7

Wonder if it was the A8 overheating and locking up?

racerns

Nah, car is so heavy it just slid off the track.

sam90lx

Needs bigger Spats!

jklein7

They should know better than to text and drive!!!!!

Darius

They need to get a german driver who knows that place, not some overweight giant who drives there once every couple years if that.

OH THREE Z

seems to me that they should be able to salvage all of the Z07 parts (- front splitter) off of the yellow car and put it on the blue car.

phantasms

I would imagine it wouldn't be terribly difficult to convert the stage 1 car into a stage 3. For them of course, not me.

Best,
Gene

skank

I do believe that the suspension bushings and spring rates are different aren't they? There is a thread on this I do believe. It might be too much work to reset this all up on a Level 1 aero car thats probably been optimized for it's own testing program.

Stingray23

The shocks also have a different calibration.