On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:28:36 GMT, "Euan Gilmour"
> I was reading this months RACER and they had a little piece about the R8
>testing at Magny-Cours and the with the GP there this week I was wondering
>what the comparative times were? I realize that the R8 might have been
>testing different stuff and set ups but what was the lap time in a
>competitive run?
> Just curious?
The F1 pole was 1:11.985, courtesy of JPM.
The pole time set by a LMP900 car in FIA Sportscar Championship at
Magny-Cours was 1:27.715. It was set by Jan Lammers with a Dome S101,
the same car and driver which took 5th starting position at LeMans
this year.
They were just under 3 seconds behind the R8's at LeMans, so the R8's
maybe, just maybe, could do 1:26's at Magny-Cours.
For comparison, the F3000 times spanned from the pole of 1:25.394 down
to mid-1:28.