Well done for the Briskoda Member in a Standard Family Estate with a 1390 cc petrol Engine with DSG 

against a Nissan GTR.

No doubt on what would be the quickest, but the front wheel driver did pretty well off the line and for the rest of the 1/4 mile.

 

Edited 25 May, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

Had some awesome in-car footage of the race. Absolutely gutted I deleted it from the camera by accident before I downloaded it.... :-(

What time did the GTR run?

On launch control they do an 11 second dead 1/4 mile.

 

All the gap is typically pulled out as the speed increases when it's two DSG type cars, so further down the strip.

I'd be surprised if there was more than 0.3 seconds gap at the 60ft mark.

GTR ran a 12.13. My car did 15s dead on that run (my slowest of the day I think) which wasn't too bad considering it was my first ever go and I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing haha!

Was great fun watching the GTR up close nailing it down the strip. :-)

That is the big difference with official times like a 1/4 mile 10.8 seconds & 124 MPH Terminal.

They are timed from standing Start, then when you want to go, and not react to light and go which are different things.

 

Official 0-62 (100km) times from manufacturers are go when you please times.

But even starting from lights with reaction times of the driver you can often better these by a second and more.

Apparently the reaction times are just for info at Santapod. The 1/4 mile timing doesn't actually begin until the car starts moving. So by all accounts you can sit there twiddling your thumbs for a few seconds before you launch and although the other car will have gone, the time on your printout won't be affected.

That is the big difference with official times like a 1/4 mile 10.8 seconds & 124 MPH Terminal.

They are timed from standing Start, then when you want to go, and not react to light and go which are different things.

 

Official 0-62 (100km) times from manufacturers are go when you please times.

But even starting from lights with reaction times of the driver you can often better these by a second and more.

 

The GT-R runs an 11 second dead 1/4 mile.

I've personally seen a stock GT-R less than a year old and completely unmodified run an 11.04 run at Santa Pod.

The times at Santa Pod are started from when you cross the beam, they make no account for reaction time which is only shown for information purposes.

 

The GT-R looked slow off the line, which I wasn't going to mention as it looks like knit picking against Furby Tom which was not my intention.

Looks like it bogs down off the line, you can clearly see the front bounce a bit.  It certainly doesn't "launch".  It should shoot off, not trundle along for a few car lengths before going.

It's not unusual, seen it many times myself.  Usually not setting launch correctly or someone fiddling with the system so it doesn't have enough revs.

That's why it's a second or so slower than it should have been.

 

The only thing that is effected by the reaction time is who came first.

 

The great thing about Santa Pod is sometimes you catch someone out and get a great result.

In my mk1 Fabia I once ran next to an American muscle car dragster type thing.

I can only suspect he had a problem, but we were neck and neck down the whole quarter mile with me beating him by four thousandths of a second.  I was over the moon.

The post was not to put down the Supercar that is a Nissan GTR or any other very fast car.

 

Only Bigging up the £16,000 or so Family Estate car standard from Skoda that does rather well mixing it with Hot Hatches and the likes,

while still able to return average good economy, low running costs and insurance.

(sadly now discontinued and no replacement on the horizon from Skoda.)

 

http://fastestlaps.com/cars/nissan_gt-r_mk_iii.html

Edited 26 May, 201511 yr by goneoffSKi

Yeah the GTR definitely bogged down abit. For a few milliseconds I was wondering how the hell I was ahead..... Until he unleashed the full fury and disappeared lol!

Good start there Tom

Terrible start by the GTR haha. Looks like when you try to launch a low powered manual and drop the clutch too fast with not enough revs. Sort of bogs and bucks abit haha. Not sure how you manage that with a 480/530/545bhp (cant see it properly, but irrelevant anyway i guess aha) auto though? Can you change the revs it launches from? Somebody made a mess of something didnt they haha

Good start there Tom

Terrible start by the GTR haha. Looks like when you try to launch a low powered manual and drop the clutch too fast with not enough revs. Sort of bogs and bucks abit haha. Not sure how you manage that with a 480/530/545bhp (cant see it properly, but irrelevant anyway i guess aha) auto though? Can you change the revs it launches from? Somebody made a mess of something didnt they haha

 

The launch control is designed to work on a stock car on stock tyres.

It's not unusual for people to start changing stuff and affect the car's capabilities.

I couldn't launch mine on MPSS tyres as it did something similar 50% of the time.

Seen plenty do that, including a 700bhp one as it just has too much power for it's launch settings causing the computer to have a moments and back everything off.

When in doubt, leave it off and plant your foot on the loud pedal.

 

You can change the launch revs with aftermarket software, via the dash and steering wheel buttons.

The launch control is designed to work on a stock car on stock tyres.

It's not unusual for people to start changing stuff and affect the car's capabilities.

I couldn't launch mine on MPSS tyres as it did something similar 50% of the time.

You can change the launch revs with aftermarket software, via the dash and steering wheel buttons.

Oh okay boss (:

Also Ive heard (i havent launched on a strip on anything, but would love to on the bike) that the Tarmac is much more grippy than the normal stuff? Maybe this caught them out?