370z Top Gear Power Lap

antman22

I did a search to see if anyone posted this but nothing came up...

Here's the Top Gear Power Lap time for the 370z. For those that don't watch Top Gear, its an automotive show on the BBC and each week they take a car out to their track and time a single lap driven by their team racing driver The Stig. He pretty much drives each car balls to the wall and with all nannies turned off (so VDC would be off).

The 370 sits in the middle of the pack when compared to the whole list (mind you, these are all sports cars). Check out the company it hangs out with:


The full list can be found here:
BBC - Top Gear - Power Laps

Shocked? Impressed? Unimpressed?

WhiskeyHotel

I think it certainly gives credence to the idea that the "Z" is the best "bang for your buck" sports car out there.

binary0x01

now excuse me I'm gonna get ...

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Horseface

I think I'm more impressed that an electric car is up there with the same lap time as a GT3.

370z: Slightly faster than a Renault Megane. This should be Nissan's new tagline in marketing.

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Matt

I watched the episode with the Maloo a couple days ago (probably a repeat, I know). It looked like the driver was going to lose that thing on every corner! Very fun to watch, powerful truck.

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Zaggeron

What kind of track is it ... Hard to believe it beat the viper by 1 sec ....

Dodge Viper SRT-10 1.28.5

Believable if the track is short without any long straights

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Montez

I agree, it has to be a curvy/turn oriented track.

jtown82

the track is very curvy with 2 decent long straights. some long sweeping turns and a hairpin turn. its got all the aspects needed to get a good base time on cars.

on the post someone said about falling off the list totally it might stick somewhere in the bottom. since the bmw z4 was also ran the same time as the 370z and the Z beat it out. the Z4 was ran first then the 370z it was a comparison test between the 2

Chriz

When they tested the viper, the track was listed as "very wet"

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spearfish25

That list doesn't specify whether the track was wet or dry. Many of those cars were driven on a wet track and would be much faster on a dry day. Check Wikipedia for a complete list with track conditions.

The GT3 is a wet track time, the Z a dry track. If you think our Zs are as fast as 911 GT3s, you've been smoking something. Or you're just high from the fumes you've inhaled from the GT3 smokin past you...

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Urbanracer

From watching the show it seems like I remember them subtracting a few seconds (3-4 sec) off the wet track times to compensate for the wet track. They noted the wet track times with a W behind the time.

spearfish25

Having watched a $hit ton of Top Gears, I can tell you they don't change the actual times. All they do is add a notation for the track condition.

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jtown82

they never touch the times. there set in stone wet or dry. amazing thing is how quick some of these cars are when its raining.

antman22

Yeah that's one thing I noticed about the list is that they didn't mark the wet vs dry like they do on the actual power lap board. makes me wonder how fast the gt3 would be on the track on a dry day. either way, i think its pretty impressive to even be around that arena.

elmz

The Cayman did it in 1.26.2 . That's even more impressive!