The Volkswagen Touareg shares much of its platform with the Porsche Cayenne, but the vehicle's suspension has been tuned predominantly for comfortable cruising than
road course lapping.
Not exact matches
Nascar racing on
road courses always throws up plenty of drama and this
lap one pile - up in Mexico featured almost a third of the entire grid.
Instructors led packs of Challengers, Chargers, and Vipers around the
road course at varying speeds, stopping after three or four
laps for a car change, to give us a chance to sample the track while still getting acquainted with the proper driving lines.
My race - car experience has heretofore been limited to 50 - mph camera passes in a 1966 Ford GT Le Mans race car for a cover feature in Motor Trend Classic and
laps at a short
road course at Honda's Twin Motegi racetrack in a Honda Side by Side open - wheel, motorcycle - powered racecar.
Even so, a couple of quick
laps around a 2.2 - mile
road course showed that the XT is still very much a compact crossover rather than a tall - roofed WRX, as it displayed considerable body roll and understeer.
A morning's worth of
lapping the manual TL on the TRC's Alan - Wilson - designed
road course, however, left us a little surprised.
Some of us smiled knowingly, as once the GT hit the Speedvegas
road course, any lingering doubts about it disintegrated within the first
lap or two.
We had only the Vsport for our first drive, which included many
laps of GM's Milford
Road Course (known colloquially as the Lutzring) and a
lap of the public
roads surrounding the facility.
While a handful of
laps around a modified
road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway are hardly enough for a thorough evaluation, I felt more confident turning its wheel than I have in any other Challenger variant.
The Ultimate Track Camaro SS car set a record
lap on the Milford
Road Course time of 1:56.4, pretty close to the 1:53.7
lap cut by the $ 75,000 Camaro Z / 28.
Gavin piloted the black No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R to a 1:57.882 (112.994 mph)
lap around the 3.7 - mile, 17 - turn
road course.
The Cadillac CTS - V is a model of finesse in comparison, with 640 horsepower stuffed into a chassis that's built to
lap road courses all day long.
The Z / 28's main goal is conquering
road courses, and all its purposeful hardware adds up to one mission: shaving
lap times.
With plenty of
laps under my belt, I killed all the electronic stability nannies and got it sideways just for fun around turn four of the infield
road course.
The new calibrations improve response in Tour, Sport and Track modes and Chevrolet says that with the new calibrations applied to a 2016 Z06, the
lap times on the Milford
Road Course improved by more than a second.
The pair completed 150
laps of the 2.238 - mile
road course and finished 11th overall to crown their third championship season together.
The subject of Nürburgring
laps came up when Hagerty asked if the ZL1 1LE could beat any of the Dodge Viper ACR's 13 US
road -
course lap records.
He posted his quickest time on the second
lap of qualifying on the 2.459 - mile Canadian
road course with a time of 1:17.66.
O'Connell recorded his quickest time on his third time around the 2.238 - mile
road course, while Beretta logged his fastest time on his fifth
lap.
Oliver Gavin turned the fastest
lap in the GT1 class and eighth fastest overall at 1:57.347 / 113.510 mph on the 3.7 - mile, 17 - turn
road course in the # 4 Compuware Corvette that he shares with Olivier Beretta and Jan Magnussen.
The Dane qualified the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R with a
lap of 2:00.973 (120.463 mph) on the 4 - mile
road course, 0.086 seconds ahead of Olivier Beretta in the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R.
«The Corvette ZR1's
lap record at VIR, arguably America's most challenging
road course, is a testament to its supercar status,» said Mark Reuss, executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.
Werner, who co-drove with Bill Auberlen to win the most recent GTLM round at Long Beach two weeks ago, took the No. 25 BMW Team RLL BMW Z4 GTE to a new
lap record of 1:22.362 around the 2.238 - mile
road course.
The Memorial Day double header had its moments of success with a pole position and a fastest
lap of the race, but a series of unfortunate events prevented the team from repeating its podium success at the Lakeville, Connecticut
road course.
The event format included runs on a tight slalom
course and a braking and wet skid pad exercise, as well as
lapping sessions on the complex's 2.25 - kilometre «technical»
road circuit.
Fellows»
lap of the 1.54 - mile Lime Rock Park
road course in 50.491 seconds fell just.219 seconds short of Darren Turner's pole - winning time in the No. 007 Aston Martin DBR9.
Fellows and Gavin started in the No. 3 and No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.Rs respectively, but the front - running Aston enjoyed a 15 - second lead after four
laps around the 4.5 - mile
road course.
We got three
laps around the
road course at Hyundai's Namyang proving grounds an hour's bus ride outside Seoul.
Watch the video above to see how quickly each of these eight performance - oriented vehicles completed a
lap of the MotorLand
road course.
The No. 3 Corvette C6.R completed 365
laps on the 2.54 - mile
road course, finishing six
laps ahead of the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R driven by Oliver Gavin, Olivier Beretta, and Max Papis.
[70] On the Las Vegas Motor Speedway infield
road course, Motor Trend was able to achieve
lap times with the GT - R that were almost as fast as the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and 911 GT2 and 1.2 seconds slower than a Corvette ZR1.
The winning Corvette C6.R completed 117
laps on the 2.459 - mile Mosport International Raceway
road course and finished sixth overall.
The 306 - hp sport sedan will almost certainly post impressive numbers when hooked to test gear or hot
lapped around a
road course.
I quite a few
laps in several Vipers at the Virginia International Raceway, a wonderful
road course on the border of Virginia and North Carolina, with which I'm very familiar.
Tommy Milner qualified the No. 4 Mobil 1 / SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in the sixth position Saturday after a
lap of 1:42.794 (119.0 mph) at the 3.4 - mile, 11 - turn
road course.
Our track time was spent
lapping the East Circuit at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, a 2.1 mile
road course with fast sweepers, elevation changes, double apexes, a long front straight, and a slalom
course set up on the back straight that was set up for this particular event.
Each spring, car manufacturers and auto writers flock to Elkhart Lake, Wis. to partake in the annual, highly - anticipated Midwest Automotive Media Association (MAMA) Spring Rally — two days of jam - packed events including hot
laps on the famous
Road America track, street driving to test out MAMA Family Vehicle of the Year contenders, hot - hatch autocrossing, go - karting fun and a challenging off - road cou
Road America track, street driving to test out MAMA Family Vehicle of the Year contenders, hot - hatch autocrossing, go - karting fun and a challenging off -
road cou
road course.
They'll race one
lap around the punishing 4.048 - mile, 14 - turn
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road racing team.
Without question, the Carrera 4S is more car than public
roads can handle, which is why we took it out for a few
laps around Michigan International Speedway's infield
road course.
Three
laps around Las Vegas Motor Speedway's twisty
road course was all it took for me to be instantly enamored with Chevy's new Camaro Turbo 1LE.
Thanks to the differential the Genesis coupe delivers nearly a one second per
lap improvement in the Genesis Coupe on the Hyundai
road course.
Beretta notched his quickest time at 2:07.619 (114.190 mph) on his third
lap around the 4 - mile, 14 - turn
road course in the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R.
• Oliver Gavin and Corvette Racing teammate Tommy Milner retain the championship lead by eight points after finishing fourth at Watkins Glen • Milner qualified the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in the sixth position Saturday after a
lap of 1:42.794 (119.0 mph) at the 3.4 - mile, 11 - turn
road course • Milner took the first stint in what was a very tight battle between the GTLM cars, running between sixth to eighth.
O'Connell, a resident of nearby Flowery Branch, Ga., has turned thousands of
laps on the 2.5 - mile, 12 - turn
road course that winds though the Georgia countryside.
It takes roughly four or five hard
laps around roughly two - mile GingerMan
road course before the front end on my tester begins to noticeably push.
Wittmer ran a record
lap of 1:59.995 (91.444 mph average), eclipsing the 2 - minute mark for the first time in a production car on the 3.048 - mile
road course and shattering the previous track record by close to 4 full seconds.
Get behind the wheel of a 2017 Corvette Stingray Z51 for
laps around our 3.15 mile
road course, built for speed!
So much grip, in fact, that Dodge says the Widebody is approximately 2.0 seconds faster per
lap of a 1.7 - mile
road course than the standard Hellcat.
Due to the lower number of
laps on each
course in the Championship mode, the
roads have about one
lap worth of deformation pre-applied so that you can carve out some real lines in time for the second
lap.
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park With a blistering
lap time of just 1 minute 6 seconds held by legendary racer Michael Andretti, the 9 - turn track is the oldest permanent
road course in the United States with elevation changes and high average speeds making it a favourite amongst drivers.