Lafora
buddy, if you watched Bell's vid, at the left hander at the end of the Hatzenbach before the long straight going to the double right, Bell was in SECOND gear.
watch the C9 vid, he's BLASTING his way towards the top of third and hits 4th almost immediately after exiting the corner.
I don't know how fast he needs to go before you consider him to have too high in cornering speeds, but taking more than a minute from a 956's time captured on video is pretty insane if you ask me.
Yes and Derek Bell was in a car equiped with an '80's video camera and tripod, running a slowish lap, as I said the fastest lap in a 956 is 30 seconds faster that the lap Derek Bell recorded.
So we are down to 6mins 11seconds; now if we take some approximate values for the use of Traction Control on the video (say 8 to 10 seconds) and maybe the same for the lack of 'fear' we are talking a lap of between 5 mins 55 seconds and 5 minutes 41 seconds.
Now thats without taking into account the developments in Prototype racing technology that occured in the six years between '83 and '89.
As I said before its the use of traction control that I have the biggest problem with and its this that allows for the quicker laydown of power on the exit of most of the corners and accounts for the quicker time.
I did not say that the two were dirrectly compariable (and sorry if it read like that), what I am tring to say is that if you take into account the use of TC, lack of fear and the jump in technology then it is possiable that the C9 could have set a new lap record at the 'ring and that the lap may not be that far removed from what is possiable.
Yes some of the corners in the C9 are far faster that those of the 956, but the lack of fear and development in downforce technology will account for quite a bit of the increased cornering speeds.
My post was in reply to the people who have said that a lap like that is totally unrealistic, and while I agree to a point (use of TC, lack of fear, etc), I do not personally believe that it is that far removed.
I am still aware that this is a game and that the lap times will never (for any game) be dirrectly compariable with real life, but this time is not as unrealistic as some people are making out.
Even if you do a direct comparison of the C9 and 956 times
C90 = 5mins 38secs = 338 seconds
956 = 6mins 11 secs = 371 seconds
100 / 371 * 338 = 91%
Thats a 9% difference between the times, in Le Man Prototype cars built six years apart.
Remember the 956 is six years older, has no traction control system and the driver has to be very aware that one big mistake could well kill him. Given all that I do not think that a 9% difference between the cars is that big.
If you also accept that the use of TC and a lack of fear are good for approx 16 seconds per lap the 956 time would be 5mins 55secs, thats a difference of 4.4%. More than enough to be accounted for by the fact that its a Game and the C9 is six years more advanced.
Edited to add that the 6min 11sec lap for the 956 would also have been set with other traffic on the 'ring (as was always the case with both qualifing and practice in the '83 session), while the C9 lap in GT4 was the only car on the track. How much that is worth per lap is almost impossiable to say.
. i know the Nordschleife pretty well, having driven on it in RL and in games, but i still keep going off track in this test. i don´t know about flinx´ 5:30 but a glod time is easily possible with some training...
Every time when its on 94% download it fails, EVERY time 
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