Posted on Tuesday 7 August 2007
The official brochure for Porsche’s new 997 GT2 was leaked last month, revealing most of the general details about the super-coupe as well as a few crucial tidbits that have been overlooked until now. As outlined in the brochure, Porsche’s claim for the GT2’s lap time of the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife is an amazingly low 7 minutes and 32 seconds.
To put that into perspective, this is the same time that the Carrera GT and Pagani Zonda F supercars take to lap the famous circuit. The new GT2 would also leave cars like Ferrari’s F430 and 599 GTB, plus the AWD Lamborghini Gallardo eating its dust with more than a 10 second gap on all of them.
For the uninitiated, the Nordschleife or Northern Loop is a 22.8km circuit at the famous Nurburging in Germany. Since its opening in 1927, the track has quickly become the benchmark for testing both car performance and driver skills for the public and carmakers alike. That’s why almost any performance carmaker worth its salt will head to the Nurburging to test prototypes of their future cars.
Click ahead to see the lap times.
This is great but a bit of perspective is in order. The GT2 will do the Nordschleife in 7:32 but it takes someone like Walter Rohrl or the chick that drives the Ring Taxi (Sabine Schmidt I think her name is) to accomplish that.
For Porsche that’s bragging rights. For those of us who aren’t Rohrl or Schmidt it means next to nothing. I calculate that if I were driving the GT2 and one of those two were driving my 1995 Mazda MX6 they’d still lap the Nurburgring faster than me.
That’s why the first thing I’ll do when I win the lottery is learn how to drive properly… in preparation for when I pick up my 599GTB at the factory
7:32 for a 911 is still damn impressive no matter who’s driving. A ten second gap is no anomaly. My only fear is how fast will the next model be, and the one after that..
And where does that leave the supercars?
This is BS. There is no such claim in the brochure.
Can you point us to the brochure please?
I have seen scans (images) of the “leaked” brochure, there is no such claim from Porsche.
Biturbo - do you honestly believe we have nothing better to do all day than invent fake laptimes for Porsches? Nonetheless, you’ll find the screengrab attached. Also, why would this lap time be fake when the GT3 can do the ‘ring in 7.39 (mfr. time) and nobody has questioned that?
admin:
Excuse me, could you show me this version of brochure?
Cause I remember exactly, that there were not any mentions of Nurburgring in the brochure originally leaked.
Admin, I am reading your site almost every day and I really appreciate your work/site.
But I think you were victim of a scam, probably a photoshop work. I asked a friend who has the original 997 GT2 brochure and there is no such chart in it. Granted I didn’t see the brochure with my own eyes, but I trust my friend. Also there are several scans from the brochure available on Internet with no chart / record.
I would remove the news or issue a correction. It is your credibility at stake. So far one of the most honest automotive sites in the Internet…
Here is the REAL brochure of 997 GT2 from Porsche. All of it, full scans.
http://www.eurocarblog.com/post/505/porsche-911-gt2-leaked-brochure
Let me email Porsche to confirm it
Any word from porsche yet? I think if the GT3 can do under 7:40 then its entirely possible that the GT2 can better this by a few seconds
I think this is a great supercar. I’v seen what it did to the ZO6 on youtube, Its not only fast, its savage. I will start saving from today.