How to do the Nordschleife in 7 min 21.23 seconds, in a 4 door-saloon/sedan. With two warning lights glowing amber on the dashboard the whole time. The worst part is, the driver looks fully relaxed the whole time, as if he’s just taking a drive through the countryside. Which he is, technically, but still.
From Jaguar’s description of this video: “The Jaguar XE Project 8 is the world’s fastest saloon, setting an incredible 7 min 21.23 second record lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Its 5.0 litre supercharged V8 produces 600 PS and 700 Nm of torque, enabling a 0-60 mph of 3.3 secs and a top speed of 200 mph.”
We recommend you view this in full screen, with the volume turned up to 11, and with your seat belt fastened.
Thanks to Robin O’Connor for originally posting this!
It is: at the three tracks I competed on often enough to see them in my mild, it’s how it worked. I never had to think of what was coming, because all data was burned into a section of my brain, in response to which my limbs would automatically do the right thing (most of the time…).
In a race car, you have little time to THINK: you can only really respond and react.
It’s why my race car had no gauges, only lights: no time to look at them.
What goes on in a race car, if even a stock car being pushed to 10/10ths, there is graceful violence.
In the tin can that was my Datsun 1200 full-racer, it was LOUD, it was EXTREMELY noisy, it was HOT, it smelled of brakes and tires and burning 100LL av gas: I would lose 4-7 pounds during a race, and I would be exhausted at the checkered flag.
Next to playing my Guild 12-string, I’ve never been in such a state of relaxed peace, as I was in that car.
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