Porsche 918 usa. Mclaren P1: who is faster on Laguna Seca?

Posted on 18-03-2015 at 23:01 by Dizono – 74 Comments”

Win brute power combined with less weight (McLaren P1) of the four-wheel drive and Deutsche Gründlichkeit (Porsche 918 Spyder)?

Now Top Gear, a premature death seems to die, must be someone the glove to pick it up and the hypercartrio of this moment against each other later to fight? Motor Trend was approached by a McLaren P1 owner, and sought himself the lucky owner of a Ritz, while Porsche like a 918 sent. Is that so easy? Nope, because then the Ritz-namely, also in the title stood. The Italians had once again the Senso coffee pods. gesnoepd, because they were so acid that they are the owner of the Ritz-prohibited to participate in the test.

The men’s names, therefore only the British and German hypercars to Laguna Seca, one of the most challenging tracks of America. Advance seems to be the McLaren P1 quite the advantage: the combined power of the P1 is 916 hp, while the Porsche the need to do ‘only’ 887 hp. Additionally, the P1 1547 pounds in the scale, while the Porsche 918 Spyder a good 150 pounds heavier. There is four-wheel drive front, the McLaren P1 has only to drive the rear wheels.

The Porsche may be the first try and breaks and passers-by also take the lap record at Laguna Sega with 1:29.89. All eyes are focused on the McLaren P1, which specially from Woking what technicians are flown in. It may not be income, the McLaren is stuck on 1:30.71, almost a second slower than the Porsche. This seems to the nut of Porsche’s four-wheel drive, proved itself. Well, the battle between the 918 Spyder and the P1 is removed, all the differences will probably be smaller on a faster track than Laguna Seca. In addition, there remains still one question unanswered and that alone is enough reason to hope that Top Gear are still quite a bit below us.

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