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The SL sets new MIRA Record & EVO Trackday Car Of The Year 2011 >
http://www.sr3sl.com/the-sl-experience/
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http://www.sr3sl.com/the-sl-experience/
Nice One(s)
Edited by splitpin on Sunday 11th December 14:52
BertBert said:
Good point DD. In fact I am posting from my new "IMM assignment" as we speak!
Bert
So we're not going to get that PM we'd been anticipating telling us that you'd struck National Lottery Gold on Saturday? Bert
BTW, I do know someone in the UK that has got an 'SL'; DPA prevents me from naming .......... and No, it's not me; even I couldn't/wouldn't start a High Court action against myself!
Odd that, but then again how often does Autocar get to test cars that light with that sort of performance envelope?
As it reads it was the factory insisting it was 245, one can only assume (always dangerous when it's the press concerned) that perhaps that's the dyno rwhp? Maybe that's how Type Approved Cars have to 'report' their data? To be honest I have no idea, but I'd take a guess there's a 1000 pages of associated legislation & directives to cover it! If so, I think the PTWRs will be pretty comparable on both the SL & RS, albeit with a very very different manner of delivery.
What we can be sure of is that (as RR used to say) Power will be 'Sufficient', then with the Radical Touch i.e. More Than.
Hopefully, as he has done in the past, such as Roger Green will do some sort of 'back to back' comparison sometime in the future, perhaps even with a third 'wild card' car i.e. an SL adorned with all the RS's race settings and kit, such as the full Monty rear race plane. Make it a damp day at a high speed track like Silverstone GP and my money would be on the 'wild card'!
As it reads it was the factory insisting it was 245, one can only assume (always dangerous when it's the press concerned) that perhaps that's the dyno rwhp? Maybe that's how Type Approved Cars have to 'report' their data? To be honest I have no idea, but I'd take a guess there's a 1000 pages of associated legislation & directives to cover it! If so, I think the PTWRs will be pretty comparable on both the SL & RS, albeit with a very very different manner of delivery.
What we can be sure of is that (as RR used to say) Power will be 'Sufficient', then with the Radical Touch i.e. More Than.
Hopefully, as he has done in the past, such as Roger Green will do some sort of 'back to back' comparison sometime in the future, perhaps even with a third 'wild card' car i.e. an SL adorned with all the RS's race settings and kit, such as the full Monty rear race plane. Make it a damp day at a high speed track like Silverstone GP and my money would be on the 'wild card'!
I have driven both extensively, although not on the same day or back-to-back. However what you have to remember is that there is more than just the engines that differentiate the two cars. The SL is designed from the outset to be road legal, so it runs road tyres, Intrax road dampers, has a greater ride height and less wing (the rear wing produces 40% less overall downforce than the regular SR3).
That said the two cars still share similar handling characteristics and there is no doubt about the SL's driveability and pace. I lapped Bedford's West circuit in 1:15.9 (about 3.5 seconds faster than a 458 and 1.8 seconds quicker than I did in a V8 Atom), and I'd previously recorded a 1:13.6 in the road legal SR8 Nurburgring record car. We've not lapped a race-spec SR3 (or SR8) there as yet.
The differences in the performance of the engines isn't power, it's torque. There's just loads of it everywhere in the SL, the powerband is huge and it has the effect of making it feel more powerful.
For info I've also topped Bedford's 'How Fast' timesheets in an SL with 1:16.5 (not quite matching my previous time because you only get an out lap and two flyers and the tyres still weren't up to temp - but still way faster than the 750bhp GT-R that previously sat at the top of the charts) You can see the lap on Youtube.
Hope that helps.
Rog
That said the two cars still share similar handling characteristics and there is no doubt about the SL's driveability and pace. I lapped Bedford's West circuit in 1:15.9 (about 3.5 seconds faster than a 458 and 1.8 seconds quicker than I did in a V8 Atom), and I'd previously recorded a 1:13.6 in the road legal SR8 Nurburgring record car. We've not lapped a race-spec SR3 (or SR8) there as yet.
The differences in the performance of the engines isn't power, it's torque. There's just loads of it everywhere in the SL, the powerband is huge and it has the effect of making it feel more powerful.
For info I've also topped Bedford's 'How Fast' timesheets in an SL with 1:16.5 (not quite matching my previous time because you only get an out lap and two flyers and the tyres still weren't up to temp - but still way faster than the 750bhp GT-R that previously sat at the top of the charts) You can see the lap on Youtube.
Hope that helps.
Rog
front splitter said:
The differences in the performance of the engines isn't power, it's torque. There's just loads of it everywhere in the SL, the powerband is huge and it has the effect of making it feel more powerful.
Cheers Rog, we are indeed honoured!It was that characteristic that I was relying on for a safe bet (well as safe as any bet ever can be!)
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