My Hot Laps with STOCK (street) cars on the Nordschleife - FXX update

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Following information applies to all videos: "Driven without TCS, ASM, with MT and ABS1. Grip set to real."

Let's start with my favourite car, the Lamborghini Diablo GT '00. I simply love Lambos and especially Diablo models. Definatly diffcult to handle and control. Very wild at the limit but still very fun and quite a bit faster than I thought it would be. Could have gone like 2 or 3 seconds faster even. Time: 07:09.072
 
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Little review that just flowed out of my head, while trying to explain this car:
Why the overconservative lap? It's easy: because this car is absolute and utter rubbish! Especially at speeds from 150kph+. This car feels totally loose all the time, it feels like it would float on water or soap and if you try to corner with it with speeds of 150kph+ it jumps all over the place like a rhinoceros with attached soap under its feet, on an ice lake, being attacked by elephants from both sides at the same time. You think you finally figured out how to move it at its limits? Ha, silly you, the car WILL find a way to mess up a corner where you would never expect it to behave the way it does, so yeah, the car is constantly trying to kill you!
*love it still 'cuz it's a Lambo baby lol Time: 07:20.748
 
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This car...man I don't know what to say. It's simply amazing, the way it corners and accelerates is just astounding, how it brings all that power of 730HP on the road. Very difficult to drive on the limit though and the brakes could be better. Was still VERY surprised at just how good it is. Time: 07:03.810
 
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This thing right here is amazing! The handling and the braking are really, REALLY good, never driven a car before to put so much power (760HP) so easily on the road. Not one of the very fastest to lap the Nordschleife, but one of the very best overall for sure. Time: 07:09.945
 
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So I drove Senna's Lotus! :)
Review: Man this car. Even if it is a "game" that lets me experience this epic, legendary car, I can still say I am happy to be able to try it out and have a theoretical idea what this car was like in real life and what it could theoretically do on this track-and that is a lot. Brakes and accelaration are insane, corner speed is mostly really good (low speed corners less so), stability is really nice, it drives much, much better than I had anticipated and is also MUCH faster than expected. Also very fun to drive, which is the most important, although you really have to shift gears so damned fast and often because of the aforementioned acceleration and breaking. My goal for a good lap was a sub 5.30 and so I did it although I COULD do a ~5.25 and the very best players can probably bring it under a 5.20 lol. Time: 05:29.744

 
Amazing ride. All statistics are good-very good, but what stands out is the great stability (especially at high speed cornering) this car has, love it. Time: 07.09.695

 
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Just after one corner I was thinking: "This thing handles SO so much better than I thought it would do", and I was right. Handling and stability of this thing are amazing, considering it is a Viper and has 640 BHP :P, brakes were a little dissapointing though. Still, a time of 07:11.xxx is pretty darn impressive.
 
What a sensational car. The only bad thing about this is the sliding under braking, which can be quite pronounced. Other than that this car is pure perfection, a joy to drive and really sexy looking. Time: 07:14.848
 
Spent far too much time to bring it to that lap time, totally wanted a 7.08.xxx or better and managed still only a 07:09.014, missed my goal by 0.015 seconds, ****"! :p Ok regarding the car: Amazing grip, you can go full throttle so much earlier than in any other car, it's unbelievable and I tested it not with the stock sports softs, but with sports hard tyres. Expected the time to be slightly better still :p
First lap cinematic view without telematry, second lap in third-person view with telematry, third lap cockpit view with telematry. All 3 laps are the same driven lap.

 
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This car sucks. The end. :D No really: brakes are weak, you don't feel the 300+KW, top speed is laughable and the handling is horrible! There is nothing good about this car except that you don't need to change gears and its somewhat sexy looks.
 
A much better electric car than the Karma. Less horsepower but still faster, because it weighs some 400kg less. Also its handling characteristics are rather nice. Interesting drive.
 
Always wanted this car to be in Gran Turimso :). Quite a fun drive, sometimes really surprising speed in corners and overall really quick considering its 400hp. I liked it.
 
I really can't find the words to describe how much I was impressed by this car. This is perfection, the pinnacle of automotive engineering. The way this car creates grip and its stability and preciseness simply astonishes. I literally was laughing out loud like a mad idiot several time while testing this, becauce I simply could not believe what was happening and how it felt. One of the best cars I have ever (virtually) driven. I have never experienced something like it ever before.
 
Man this car...built in 1984 and faster than pretty much every modern car with similar HP. I just don't understand how Ferrari pulled this off. Simply incredible. It's just so fast! Also the corner speed is in the realm of impossibility. Amazing, simply amazing.
 
Fun drive. It's tail happy but always managable. Good speed too.
 
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A little slower than expected. Like its style still and still fun to drive kinda. I like it.
 
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Feels real good to drive it. It feels really stable, precise, like on rails. Speed is rather disappointing though.
 
All laps are the same driven lap, 3 laps for 3 different views.
My last Nordschleife lap for the forseeable future I guess. It was meant to be something really special. I waited for a long time to test this car. Was it worth it? **** YES IT WAS! I mean the acceleration is so brutal that the excellent brakes are still to weak to really balance it out haha. Corner speed is insane too IF you enter one the right way and that is VERY difficult with this car. It is soooo hard to control properly because of the immense oversteer. What the Enzo's understeer is, is the FXX's oversteer. An absolut thrill to drive and just ridiculously fast overall, it made me laugh many times testing it because I had a hard time believing what was happening. But it also made me almost cry because I tested it like for 8-9 hours spun over two days. My first stint was about 6 hours long and I had serious pain in the hand-arm joints and my feet and legs pained so much that I had to walk around for 5 minutes before the tension and the pain left my legs. Crazy stuff. Verdict: Of course I Iove it lol.


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