Friday, January 25, 2013

Lightning Lap VII: Video, Lap Times, and More on 2013′s Hottest Cars from America’s Nürburgring!

Lightning Lap VII: Video, Lap Times, and More on 2013's Hottest Cars from America's Nürburgring!

The asphalt amoeba down at the ­bottom of Old Dominion, known as Virginia International Raceway (VIR), differs from the famed Nürburgring in Germany in several important respects. First, VIR is not bankrupt. Second, at 4.1 miles long, the configuration of VIR that we use for our annual Lightning Lap speed-a-palooza is considerably shorter than the Nordschleife, which is 12.9 miles around and has something like 18 trillion turns. Also, at the 'Ring you can't get Mountain Dew from a vending machine. No wonder business is bad.  READ MORE ››



from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com




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