by "Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
Published 09/24/2017 at 20:16
by "Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
Published 09/24/2017 at 20:16
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If you could take one car on any track, what would it be? For me it would be the Audi r10 tdi on road Atlanta. One of the greatest lmp1 cars (it never lost lemans in all the years it competed) on one of the greatest tracks imho. No restrictions on cars. It can be a yugo or a Ferrari f1 car for all I care.
"CRider" (crider)
09/24/2017 at 20:24, STARS: 10
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
09/24/2017 at 20:25, STARS: 0
I think either a Cobra to Spa Francochamps, or a Porsche 917K to Circuit de la Sarte. Yes, I like a car to be a handful, I think that is more fun than a perfectly handling modern racing machine.
"chaozbandit" (chaozbandit)
09/24/2017 at 20:26, STARS: 0
Current spec GTR GT500 at Fuji, because super gt dreams.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 20:28, STARS: 1
No csl love given your profile picture
"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76)
09/24/2017 at 20:30, STARS: 1
"Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
09/24/2017 at 20:30, STARS: 0
Ferrari F40
The track? I’m gonna go with Laguna Seca
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
09/24/2017 at 20:31, STARS: 0
Well, come to think of it, a CSL on the Nürburgring Nordschleife would also be a contender.
"FromCanadaWithLove" (fromcanadawithlove)
09/24/2017 at 20:32, STARS: 2
I know it’s not the most creative, but a 997 GT3 RS 3.8 at Spa sounds like heaven.
"djmt1" (djmt1)
09/24/2017 at 20:32, STARS: 0
Noble M400 @ Anglesey
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 20:32, STARS: 1
I like this choice
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 20:36, STARS: 1
I can see it now, flat-six wailing through eau rouge and raidillon
"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
09/24/2017 at 20:37, STARS: 3
I drove Spa in a 75hp Renault Twingo, and we couldn’t go over 80 kmh, and even in that way the place is heaven anyway. So yes, taking a GT3 around it will definitely be heaven.
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
09/24/2017 at 20:41, STARS: 0
I like your R10 choice. A few years ago, that would’ve been my choice, too.
So, I’m going to go a completely different direction (but still LMP1), and take a TS040 (last of the naturally aspirated LMP1s) to Spa. At least I think it’ll be the TS040, whatever it is, it’ll be Spa.
"FromCanadaWithLove" (fromcanadawithlove)
09/24/2017 at 20:44, STARS: 1
I am incredibly jealous
"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
09/24/2017 at 20:46, STARS: 1
Lime Rock, Viper.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
09/24/2017 at 20:47, STARS: 0
I’m going to say a Cobra, or Viper around the ‘ring (I’d be so dead, but it would be glorious). Or I’ll just settle for a Raptor around Laguna Seca.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 20:49, STARS: 0
That would also be glorious
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
09/24/2017 at 20:50, STARS: 1
Paris-Dakar or something like that.
or
leguna seca.
"66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash" (66671)
09/24/2017 at 20:50, STARS: 2
You’ve got a solid choice there, Road Atlanta and early Lmp1 cars are awesome!
It’s a good question, if there’s no limit on tracks, I might just take a UGR Twin Turbo Gallardo (manual obviously) on Avus.
If the track has to exist today (for whatever hypothetical purpose), I’d take a Mazda MXR-01 for a spin on Tsukuba. I’d also consider the Norisring to be up there too:
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"scoob" (scoobsti)
09/24/2017 at 20:51, STARS: 0
Maybe some slide-y car like a GT86 or M3 or something in the rain at the Nurburgring so I can pretend I can slide around the whole track.
"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
09/24/2017 at 20:51, STARS: 0
I know all too well that I couldn’t ring enough out of an LMP or F1 car to be anything but frustrated with myself.
Therefore the best answer is to choose something with a legitimate racing past and just enough craziness to be both fun and terrifying.
Enter the Crosley hotshot. It weighs 1000lbs in road trim. To fit it for racing the passenger seat, bumpers, windshield, spare tire and trunk rackk among other things were removed. Find one with the supercharger that was built for them that with a different cam bumped power all the way to 50!
Yeah, not much but this tiny thing would be terrifying enough at 90mph that I don’t think you’d want more.
The track; I vote Sebring where a Hotshot actually won a 6 hour race in 1950 thanks to balance of performance rules. Granted, the current track shares nothing but location in common with the course from 1950.
"OPPOsaurus WRX" (opposaurus)
09/24/2017 at 20:52, STARS: 0
with the raptor, i’m guessing you mean around leguna seca as in off the track in the dirt the whole time.
"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
09/24/2017 at 20:53, STARS: 0
I think your first thought is an amazing idea I hadn’t even thought of.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 20:54, STARS: 0
I’ve seen the norisring with dtm cars. That track looks hairy in the rain
"66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash" (66671)
09/24/2017 at 20:56, STARS: 1
I have an attraction to very fast cars on short race tracks.
"Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
09/24/2017 at 20:56, STARS: 1
I love Laguna Seca, and I’d definitely do unholy things for a drive in a F40.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
09/24/2017 at 21:06, STARS: 0
Shelby Daytona Coupe. Chez la Nurburgring.
"John Norris (AngryDrifter)" (angrydrifter)
09/24/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 0
Sure Road Atlanta. But perhaps Ryan Tuerck’s 86.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
09/24/2017 at 21:07, STARS: 1
Spa is a true circuit like the Nurburgring.
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
09/24/2017 at 21:10, STARS: 1
I saw the R10 at RA. Good times there.
956 at Le Mans. No chicane. A specialized tool for its intended track.
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"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
09/24/2017 at 21:12, STARS: 0
Not my intention but that would be epic too.
"Milky" (jordanmielke)
09/24/2017 at 21:18, STARS: 1
+
(rally monte carlo)
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
09/24/2017 at 21:19, STARS: 0
RUF yellowbird around the ring.
Glorious
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
09/24/2017 at 21:21, STARS: 0
Death would be quite swift as I don’t imagine I could keep that car anywhere near on track at any sort of speed.
"interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
09/24/2017 at 21:24, STARS: 1
This x CT supercharger x VIR
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 21:28, STARS: 0
Drifting around the ring as one would
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"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
09/24/2017 at 21:32, STARS: 0
I never said I would be driving it fast. Can you imagine, 80s 911 weight distribution, 500 hp and turbo lag?
"190octane" (admiralcb)
09/24/2017 at 21:35, STARS: 1
GT40 at Le Mans.
"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
09/24/2017 at 21:45, STARS: 0
What are we defining as “track?”
"Sam" (samwellington)
09/24/2017 at 22:07, STARS: 0
Hmmm. Definitely gonna say Mazda 787B on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, mostly because I know that course like the back of my hand.
"Matt Nichelson" (whoismatt)
09/24/2017 at 22:13, STARS: 0
Mazda 787B around La Sarthe would be fun.
"DutchieDC2R" (dutchiedc2r)
09/24/2017 at 22:32, STARS: 1
A MK2/3 Ford GT40 at Imola. Because f*ck Ferrari.
"tromoly" (tromoly)
09/24/2017 at 22:37, STARS: 1
West LMX at Road America, because basically the West WX10 DSR that Level 5 developed to race in the Run-Offs at the specific track it was developed for.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
09/24/2017 at 22:54, STARS: 0
awesome but I would kill myself...my hands are just not fast enough..
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
09/24/2017 at 23:00, STARS: 0
the track has to be Laguna Seca - as for the car, I’d be really tempted to choose an original GT350r...
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 07:22, STARS: 0
Didn’t that thing have a 28 second 0-60 time
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 07:24, STARS: 0
The ts040 sounds amazing but it’s reliability problems would get the best of it (23.98 hours later)
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 07:26, STARS: 0
The gt4586 aka the Ferrari engined gt86
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 07:27, STARS: 1
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Like the guy in this ruf yellowbird
"bhtooefr" (bhtooefr)
09/25/2017 at 07:30, STARS: 1
TOO SOON.
Although that’s the TS050 that did that, not the TS040. And, I could just say the 2015-spec TS040, which was perfectly reliable... it just hadn’t gotten faster (and in fact qualified slower, probably because it lost the cheaty 2014 rear bodywork, although it completed more laps than 2014), where the Audi and Porsches did.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 08:57, STARS: 0
Anything from a road course to a two lane dirt track ;)
"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
09/25/2017 at 10:46, STARS: 0
20 in stock form, 10 with the supercharged motor in full street trim, and around 9 with supercharged motor stripped down to race weight
"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
09/25/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 1
2016 Ford Fiesta WRC.
Then I call a GT3 team and have them refit the suspension to GT3-spec, equip GT3 tires, and tune to 550hp, just add some more wang and diffuser.
Time to shock some actual Blancpain GT competitors...
Actually no lol. If I was gonna pick any one thing to drive, it’s the 2014 R35 GT500.
This is tough because I wanted the F2004, too, and even the generation of Super GT R35 before it (and the OG NSX Suepr GT), but really, I won’t get enough of Calsonic Blue. Besides, I can have the NSX later.
Where would I race it?
And additional challenge: I’m racing the Ford GTE-Pro car. Full tank, 20 laps.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/25/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 0
Gtr would win by a country mile
"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy)
09/25/2017 at 11:32, STARS: 0
Even if the Ford starts a lap ahead?
Also, I guess I’d like to try any DRS-equipped F1 car up Road Atlanta. Popping DRS right as you get up the hill on the home straight, then again, this time at the sweep, and again at Kettle Bottoms...
I’m not saying turn RA into a Grade 1 track, but it could use a bit of a top-up. No need to do up the runoff or change the layout—it’s square enough so it’s Tilke enough—just give the facilities a bit more lovin’ and the asphalt some new sheen and there you go.