[soontobGTR]

I just read this article, apparently the video of the ring time isn't official? Anyone have any ideas? Sorry if Repost.

"In other words, we have no official announcement of a time trial or the results of the test run at the Nürburgring Nordschleife,"

http://www.thetrutha...ng-racer-video/

 

[MC]

the video is on the official nissan japan GTR site

http://www2.nissan.c...urburgring.html

although it says "nurburgring test driving" it doesnt say we set the time officially of 7:21... maybe this was just a shakedown test lap....the 2012 laps of 7:24.22 was an unofficial test lap aswell...but the reason it didnt post an official time is the test day was rained out....as to why the 7:21 would be posted but not official im not sure....

and is linked to this youtube account

http://www.youtube.com/user/NISSANGTRJP

 

[Rif]

Weard !

 

[soontobGTR]

the video is on the official nissan japan GTR site

http://www2.nissan.c...urburgring.html

Uhh that's even weirder! lol i wonder why Nobukazu Tanaka would say that it's not official.

 

[MC]

Uhh that's even weirder! lol

exactly... thats where i first saw it and thats why i posted it on our front page....

the fact that its not an official time and just testing may be supported by the fact the 7:21 has no tenths of a second added to it and it seems to hold at that time a second or more before it reaches the finish....

so saying its not an official time is one thing...saying it doesnt exist and it "consumer generated" confuses me as like i said its on the official site...

 

[MC]

and this is a quote from a recent article from motortrend

http://www.motortrend.com/features/auto_news/2011/1111_2013_nissan_gt_r_10_second_car/

While we were not able to get our hot lap in at the Nurburgring with our latest GT-R update, we will try again next spring and are more than confident that we will break the 7 minute 20 second barrier," said Mizuno.

so this backs up the 7:21 not being an officially claimed time...... but surely nissan "knows" about the video.... maybe the person truth about cars talked to wasnt familiar with the japanese site

 

[MindlessOath]

its not offical because nissan knows it can and will go faster than that. The 7:24 time like you said was interupted by bad weather. this time was interupted by not having the correct tires at the time of testing, then delayed until october iirc, between the first and secound tests in october i dunno when this video was recorded.

however Nissan doesnt want to make an official time because it knows it can drive as fast or faster than 7:20 and will prove it next year when they have another test. That is the ONLY reason why this time is not official.

 

[MC]

its not offical because nissan knows it can and will go faster than that. The 7:24 time like you said was interupted by bad weather. this time was interupted by not having the correct tires at the time of testing, then delayed until october iirc, between the first and secound tests in october i dunno when this video was recorded.

however Nissan doesnt want to make an official time because it knows it can drive as fast or faster than 7:20 and will prove it next year when they have another test. That is the ONLY reason why this time is not official.

thats the way i see it aswell

 

[MindlessOath]

here he says it will lap the ring in under 7:20

off topic, but wanted to post it in a 2013 thread

 

[Cavalier777]

they're probably waiting for a competitor's time release to strategically slap-to-face

 

[GODZILLA_GTR]

they're probably waiting for a competitor's time release to strategically slap-to-face

+1... i think they know they can do better and dont want to go public like what mindlessoath said.

 

[Skyliner]

I read that Nissan believes that next April they will run under 7:20. Mizuno-San is confident that the car can lap the Ring in under 7:20.

 

[mcduck]

as to why the 7:21 would be posted but not official im not sure....

"So, that was not even like our official run... that was just us fooling around. Imagine what the laptime would have been like if we had actually **tried** to set a fast lap."

 

[descartesfool]

the video is on the official nissan japan GTR site

http://www2.nissan.c...urburgring.html

although it says "nurburgring test driving" it doesnt say we set the time officially of 7:21... maybe this was just a shakedown test lap....the 2012 laps of 7:24.22 was an unofficial test lap aswell...but the reason it didnt post an official time is the test day was rained out....as to why the 7:21 would be posted but not official im not sure....

and is linked to this youtube account

http://www.youtube.c...ser/NISSANGTRJP

What is the caption on that Nissan website saying about the oil cooler core?

 

[reddy]

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/11/14/nissan-downplays-mystery-gt-r-ring-record-run/

found a similar link

 

[zebekias]

Obviously I love the GTR but this is BS. They spend all the money and effort to run the car there and two years in a row they can't get a proper hot lap. What the [email protected]#$%%^&ll? If I was the boss I'd get on the phone and chew them up. Stay on the [email protected]!king track until you have several proper hot laps!

While we were not able to get our hot lap in at the Nurburgring with our latest GT-R update

 

[Rif]

It does suck ... I don't know of its the elder scroll game giving me ideas, but I woul love if ther was a book ( tome ) that I could read and gain automatically 500 laps + knowledge of the ring and take my own GTR to the ring and put a 7:18:567 time on it

 

[NNAS]

It does suck ... I don't know of its the elder scroll game giving me ideas, but I woul love if ther was a book ( tome ) that I could read and gain automatically 500 laps + knowledge of the ring and take my own GTR to the ring and put a 7:18:567 time on it

^^ ahahaha Epic

 

[MC]

http://www.autoblog....ing-record-run/

found a similar link

i dont understand how they think "its not real"...its not gran turismo and like i said its on the damn nissan site....

 

[MindlessOath]

Autoblog is so sad they can't fact check or even ask a nagtroc rep about this? Wow auto journalism is shit.
autoblog.com/2011/11/14/nissan-downplays-mystery-gt-r-ring-record-run/#continued

Anyways... This video was a test of the tires only.