top gear lap record beaten

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-> And maybe the Veyron or the old skool McLaren F1. Both of which are not have been tested by the Stig at the track.
 
The Mclaren was tested on the track but for a drag race. against a R33 GTR. it won. easily.
I suppose if you could afford an Ultima you could afford an M3 or a 528Ci as your comfort car.

EDIT: i love caterhams. there just wicked. never heard of that aston and the atom is an ok car aswell.
 
skylinefreak1
I know that but im saying that a lot of cars can beat that record and a skyline is one of them.
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I'm sorry but this is complete nonsens.

Do you even know how much a stock Skyline weighs? 1500 bloody kilos, if you'd have to strip the weight down to match that of the Ultima, you wouldn't have a Skyline left, but a body on wheels. Secondly, it'd take at least 700 HP to match the Ultima's straightline performance and third; where's your downforce? You'd probably have to nail on a racing bodykit to match the Ultima's performance in terms of downforce and cornering abilities 👎



On that, I think the Ultima looks wonderful, and an incredible time as well :cheers:
 
i wasn't trying to rub it in, i just wanted the discussion to end once and for all so we all can move on and stopping yelling at each other like 5 year olds. (no offense to anyone that took part in the arguement because i put my 2 cents in too:))
 
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British supercar manufacturers and multiple world speed record holders Ultima Sports Ltd have this week smashed Michael Schumacher's £1million Ferrari FXX track car lap record on the circuit as used by Top Gear TV with their Ultima GTR720 road car.

The Ultima GTR720 recorded a blistering 1min 9.9secs lap time, which demolishes the previous record of 1min10.7secs set by seven-time world Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari FXX track car. To put things into perspective the Ultima is almost 10 seconds per lap faster than the fastest road car that Ferrari produces which is the renowned £450,000 Enzo.

The successful lap record attempt was independently timed, verified and recorded by Plans Motorsport using their GPS DL-1 data logging equipment. It wasn't a test conducted by Top Gear TV themselves as the producers have seemingly ignored repeated requests to feature the British Ultima GTR to date.

Richard Marlow, Director of Ultima Sports Ltd commented:
"We are all absolutely thrilled with this lap record. I could see that the Formula 1 inspired Ferrari FXX looked supremely quick in the hands of Michael Schumacher, but I had every belief that it wasn't a match for our legendary Ultima GTR720 road car. I wanted to prove a point from the minute I witnessed the Schuey lap time on TV but the top gear track was fully booked for several months. At the first available opportunity we took our Ultima GTR720 road car that has previously recorded a lap time of 1min12.8secs (see www.ultimasports.co.uk/Content.aspx?f=record8) and adjusted it to more of a track biased set up rather than road car settings in the same manner as Michael Schumacher's track only non road legal Ferrari FXX. Our Ultima GTR720 road car stormed around the track at the kind of pace that would have placed it at the front of the grids in international GT racing, it was for sure a spectacle to behold. To better the lap time of the greatest driver of our generation in arguably the worlds most developed and expensive modern day track car is a perfect illustration of the sheer brilliance and mind blowing pace of our British Ultima GTR. Of course unlike the Ferrari FXX, which is not road legal, we were able to drive our road car back home afterwards. I would also like to clarify to everybody that our GTR720 will clear all speed humps and anybody whom doubts this fact is welcome to visit our factory so that we can demonstrate this to them first hand."

Ted Marlow, Managing Director of Ultima Sports Ltd commented:
"Well what can I say? I have been driving Ultima's now for over 25 years in hundreds of different Ultima cars with a huge range of different configurations and so I was pretty confident that the GTR720 would do the business.
The Enzo FXX is no ordinary Ferrari having been developed using Formula 1 technology and extensively tested by the 7 times Formula 1 world champion so to beat this lap time certainly proves the magnitude of our achievement.
The Ultima is a perfect illustration of the effectiveness of the KISS principle and enables us to offer an affordable supercar that can outrun the likes of Michael Schumacher in his own £1million Ferrari FXX track car. Simply put we have created automotive history by producing the worlds fastest all round road legal supercar and this new record together with our extensive catalogue of existing world speed records is unequivocal proof of the Ultima GTR's engineering excellence. Ultima fans can rest assured in the knowledge that we still have significant room for lap time improvement in the future as there is always our 800hp variant to put through its paces yet, and of course the keys to our Ultima GTR720 are always available here for a certain Mr. Schumacher should he like a shot at improving our new lap time record further still........."

The Ultima GTR720 is a fully road going production car with standard features such as air conditioning, stereo system and sealed luggage compartments etc and is often used as a daily driver. The car is equipped with a standard production 720bhp Chevrolet V8 engine option built specifically for Ultima by our OE engine suppliers American Speed.
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http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/Content.aspx?f=recordfxx
 
It's not by The Stig. They threw that "Driver Skill" variable in there, meaning that until our white knight gets behind the wheel, It's as worthless as a Ring lap.

as well, it's using "Track" Settings...which, I assume, Can't get over a Sleeping Policeman. Which puts it on the same board as the DBR9 and *erm* HARRIER.
 
You say that as if I consider THAT an official Power Board time, too. It's not even road legal.

The car still falls far behind the DBR9, R24, and Naval STOVL fighter.
 
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But they drove it home, after changing a couple bits no doubt. But they drove it home!

The fact the driver used beat a time set by Schumi throws the driver variable firmly in Ultima's favour I'd say. That is to say, there probably aren't many faster people than him about, and Schumi could probably set an even faster time in the Ultima.
 
Jim Prower
as well, it's using "Track" Settings...which, I assume, Can't get over a Sleeping Policeman. Which puts it on the same board as the DBR9 and *erm* HARRIER.
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I wouldn't have thought a Harrier would have too much trouble clearing speed bumps...
 
no. I just think it's not worthy of fawning over. It gets great lap times. Well Duh. It's a Daytona Prototype with numberplates.

and that comes with the ugly.
 
If it isn't worthy of fawning over then it's not worthy of being precious over whether it's "eligible" or not. The road car/race car thing is becoming a bit tired. How about the fact that it's significantly cheaper than your average supercar?
 
Jim Prower
no. I just think it's not worthy of fawning over. It gets great lap times. Well Duh. It's a Daytona Prototype with numberplates.

and that comes with the ugly.
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The Ultima GTR is a designed road car.
 
The its "cheaper than the respective proven supercar" argument is even more tired.

Regardless, I'm more interested in the episode of Top Gear where Micheal Schumacher drove a Ferrari around the test track.
 
Jim Prower
It's roughly the same shape and uses the same technology, including the Corvette engine. It's a DP car for the street.
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It actually doesn't use a Corvette engine, it uses whatever you put in the thing.
 
Well, what was in the 720 that set the speed record, eh?

Ultima uses Chevrolet mills for their turnkey cars. Sure, if you wanted to, you could put a blown 572 Merlin making 1700HP on Methanol back there, but if you get it from the factory, It's an LS-series mill.

and if their car's so great, why haven't they actually entered the machine in any form of auto racing other than time attacks? It's got race car technology without any racing pedegree. Is it that they havent' sold enough of these things to homologate it? Maybe that's the only reason they want the car on TG, though, given the producers' apparent distaste for it, I think that unwise. they'd sandbag it.

It can break every damn track record from Silverstone to Tsukuba, and I still wouldn't like it. Just like the Audi R8.
 
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