Talk:Nordschleife fastest lap times
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[edit] Accurate data
The list should contain only times that are referred by a reputable source. Most of these times are from reputable sources and there should be URL/links available.
Also the list should contain only road-legal cars with road-legal tires. Cars that were trailered there and tricked out should not be listed. Also the starting procedure should be mentioned. Some had a rolling start, some even a fast rolling start! Standing start only! We should delete from the list the entries not observing these rules.
- Very few will have had a standing start. Most lap times are from rolling starts. I agree that any car which are not road-legal should either be labeled as such, or left off the list. Since the Nordschleife is in Germany, the car should be road-legal there. Also, any cars which are modified should be labeled and that applies to the chosen tyres too. Unfortunately, often the tyres used are not mentioned in the references. Nasty 22:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this list is the most updated, but it was the latest I found. --Kensai 16:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Do you have some sources for these times? Mostly they look pretty reasonable but that Ferrari F355 Challenge at second place seem very fishy. The F355 Challenge is just a slightly souped up race version of Ferrari's cheapest car, so it's highly unlikely that its 20 sec/lap faster than a $400,000 Porsche Carrera GT, and a whopping 1 min/lap faster than the regular F355! Tren001 04:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
The Jaguar diesel was driven in the time shown by Jeremy Clarkson, but in the same show (Top Gear) the car was taken round much quicker by a second driver (Sabine). Neither claimed it was the fastest lap for this car, so i'm not sure it should even be listed with Sabines time (which I do not know exactly)
Removed the three TopGear Times, as these were not for a complete lap. They were so called BTG (Bridge To Gantry) times. In Tourist traffic you can't do complete flying laps but have to enter and exit the track on the Döttinger Höhe straight. To get an idea how fast they're going, people then measure the time from the bridge at Antoniusbuche to a trestle over the track at the beginning of Döttinger Höhe. Therefore these times are missing the whole very long straight and, depending on the car, are about half a minute or more quicker than those of a complete lap.
[edit] Vandalism
The vandalism by 204.98.2.17 (talk • contribs) has been reverted to the version last saved by 85.210.163.195. This article may require some cleaning up. Orsini 02:23, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
