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If the Ferrari 599GTO achieved that lap time, it would be a record. As it stands, the 599XX is hardly a production car. If I remember correctly, those who own them, don't even get to drive them home (ala the F60 FXX).




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^Also a Road Legal Radical SR8 on road tires did it in 6:48 last year-it seems Ferrari have forgotten all about that while bragging about their racing car!!!
 
^^ Isn't the Radical road legal only in UK? If that's true that record doesn't count too.
 
Dan_
^^ Isn't the Radical road legal only in UK? If that's true that record doesn't count too.
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No, it drove from the headquarters in the UK, through France and Germany to the track. By road. I don't think it's road legal in the US without modifications, but you can't say a car has to be road legal everywhere in the world because a lot of cars arn't. You'd see a lot of records, particularly by sports and supercars, that would be deemed invalid if that was the requirment.
 
finnracer
^Also a Road Legal Radical SR8 on road tires did it in 6:48 last year-it seems Ferrari have forgotten all about that while bragging about their racing car!!!
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Ah but Ferrari said it was a 'Road car derivation'.

That means the 599XX is not a road car, it is just derived from a production 599. It also means, cars that are road legal like the Radical SR8 which beat it's time, do not count, because it was not road car derived :P They've been very smart with their words indeed.
 
Seismica
Ah but Ferrari said it was a 'Road car derivation'.

That means the 599XX is not a road car, it is just derived from a production 599. It also means, cars that are road legal like the Radical SR8 which beat it's time, do not count, because it was not road car derived :P They've been very smart with their words indeed.
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Maybe not, but one of these did it in 6'11 once, and there's a road car of it :D
 
Why do people put so much focus on Ring times? Unless they all run the exact same day you can't really compare them since track conditions vary so much. Not to mention it will vary depending on the driver as well.
 
Justin
Why do people put so much focus on Ring times? Unless they all run the exact same day you can't really compare them since track conditions vary so much. Not to mention it will vary depending on the driver as well.
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Ofcourse not. They wait for nice weather conditions and choose their best drivers..
 
Justin
Why do people put so much focus on Ring times? Unless they all run the exact same day you can't really compare them since track conditions vary so much. Not to mention it will vary depending on the driver as well.
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Not to mention the fact that, for this amongst many other reasons, there is no such thing as an official lap record of the Nordschleife.
 
Justin
Why do people put so much focus on Ring times? Unless they all run the exact same day you can't really compare them since track conditions vary so much. Not to mention it will vary depending on the driver as well.
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Yeah, a short lap around the top gear track, or a Needel/Plato dog fight is a much better measure ;)

Seriously, the ring is km and km of challenging ROAD. And the best lap a car does, is not the best of a set of 5. It's the best effort of drivers, engenniers, settings etc, over long days of testing, reading data, tunning and retesting, that ultimately produce the best time the machine could do. EVER.

So yes, when someone states it did good, you can believd it did as good as it will ever be capable of doing. And that is comparable.

Edit: but, a usual, Famine is right about no "official" timming.
 
Famine
Maybe not, but one of these did it in 6'11 once, and there's a road car of it :D
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Well technically, the road car was a race car derivation, the race car itself was derived from the 956. Only the ACO were stupid enough to believe that (slightly) modified Group C monster was a production car. :D
 
Lemminkainen
Aw come on now. You're making me all sad looking at those 962s and realizing what my chances are of driving one in GT5 :ill:

It's just a beautiful car...
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Some 962s were privately built, with original chassis and unique bodywork. Possible different engines too. These privateer teams were allowed to sell on their custom 962s to other privateer teams. Maybe there is some loophole that allows PD to put a 962 in the game? Or do the rights to those still lie with Porsche? I think it's different to the licensing 'loopholes' that got us RUFs in the game, and how we got a BMW Mclaren F1.

EDIT: After a bit of research, all privateer ran 962s used Porsche engines, even the heavily modifed/customised ones that I was referring to, so no loophole can be exploited... It's a pity really.
 
In the last interview, Yamuchi siad this "We’re still rushing with GT5 as we speak and will be doing so until the last possible moment".
I think this means they have a time limit ordered by Sony.
 
The release date we get is probably very dependent on what PD can finish in these next 53 days before E3. If they're behind, we'll likely hear TBA 2010. If it's done or just about done, we'll likely hear fall or an actual date. Finally.


Or of course there could already be a set date and KY and PD are scrambling like lunatics to get whatever they can in.
 
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Keep in mind that the demos we've been seeing are several months old, at least, and are looking and sounding pretty darn good for pre-beta stuff. So I'd say GT5 is just about finished. Whatever Kaz and the lads are working on is likely some combination of these:
  • More cars and tracks
  • Car interiors
  • Damage
  • Weather
  • Daytime settings, possibly changes
  • Livery editor and race mod
  • Enhanced online structures and league building tools
 
Tenacious D
Keep in mind that the demos we've been seeing are several months old, at least, and are looking and sounding pretty darn good for pre-beta stuff. So I'd say GT5 is just about finished
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I would hope so. But the demos are about the same as GT5P, not quite the true GT5

Tenacious D
Whatever Kaz and the lads are working on is likely some combination of these:
  • More cars and tracks
  • Damage
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Those two are really the only things I would like to know they're still working on. I pray everything else has been finally squared away by now. But I think it's more about new features like the 3D and other useless things. I'm sure though, that all the cars that have been recently revealed have been at the PD studio several months ago getting scanned and modeled
 
Tenacious D
Keep in mind that the demos we've been seeing are several months old, at least, and are looking and sounding pretty darn good for pre-beta stuff. So I'd say GT5 is just about finished. Whatever Kaz and the lads are working on is likely some combination of these:
  • More cars and tracks
  • Car interiors
  • Damage
  • Weather
  • Daytime settings, possibly changes
  • Livery editor and race mod
  • Enhanced online structures and league building tools
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More important is this: Do those features support KY's recent statement "But now I wanted to make it a new package and style for this game genre.

Are those features alone enough to consider GT5 a new package and style for this game genre? Not just the GT series, mind you, the racing genre in its entirety as he stated.
 
I think the major change between GT5 to all of the other GT games is the focus on online play. I read in an interview with him that they were putting in a lot of work into the online play to make it as good as possible. What the other changes might be, i don't know.
 
Famine
Not to mention the fact that, for this amongst many other reasons, there is no such thing as an official lap record of the Nordschleife.
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Not sure what that has to do with anything to be honest. Regardless of whether a lap time is considered official or not, the fact is, some cars have lapped the public toll road faster than others. Whether that was due to favourable weather conditions, a great car setup, a driver on top form, or more likely some combination of those, it doesn't matter.
 

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