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Video + Lightning Lap 2012: 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302? (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2012-2012-ford-mustang-boss-302-laguna-seca-video) :rolleyes: Click above link, then make full screen & turn up your sound (Oh, buckle `up) I'd love to be a test driver, or be able to drive a track like in the above `vid.. Take a break & EnJoy :thumbsup: Check out the below article containing many `rides ! ======================================= Lightning Lap 2012 For the sixth time, we assemble the newest, hottest vehicles on the market and subject them to a reference lap on our beloved VIR. January 2012 http://media.caranddriver.com/images/media/51/lightning-lap-2012-header-page-1-photo-437281-s-original.jpg http://media.caranddriver.com/images/media/51/february-2012-issue-bumper-678-photo-437280-s-original.jpg (http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car-and-driver-magazine-february-2012-issue-table-of-contents) :rolleyes: Thanks Car and Driver :congrats: Within a stone?s throw of the invisible line that separates North Carolina from Virginia is a very visible 4.1-mile winding line known as Virginia International Raceway?s (VIR) Grand West Course. Over the past six years, and in as many installments, we have brought production cars (115 of them, including this year?s crop) here in an effort to find just how quick the sportiest cars on the market are in a controlled environment. Lightning Lap is our home-brewed version of the N?rburgring Nordschleife test that numerous manufacturers do when tuning new automobiles. Even though VIR is less than a third the length of the ?Ring, its long straights, elevation changes, and combination of slow, fast, and, scary-fast corners test a car?s capabilities better than any other track in North America. To complete a lap in less than three minutes (think of it as VIR?s version of the ?Ring?s eight-minute mark), a production car must have unflappable brakes, high levels of grip, sure-footed handling, and, with two 0.6-mile-long straights, a stout engine. For this test, the ultimate performance crucible, we don?t factor in how ridiculous a car looks, or how ugly it sounds, or any other subjective criteria. We rank the vehicles based only on best lap time. Each car is slotted into one of the following five classes according to its base price, which includes all performance-enhancing options. There are no LL5 cars ($250,000 and above) this year, and we did not invite any non-production LLU cars (?U? for ?unclassified?). But we did bring a pair of high-po sport-utility vehicles, so we created a new class for SUVs and trucks called LLT. http://media.caranddriver.com/literals/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/lightning-lap-2012-classes/4846970-1-eng-US/lightning-lap-2012-classes.jpg http://media.caranddriver.com/literals/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/lightning_lap_2012_sidebar/4869281-1-eng-US/lightning_lap_2012_sidebar.jpg The Rules The cars featured here are all unmodified production vehicles. We requested that each model be fitted with the sportiest options, such as bigger brakes, summer tires, sport suspensions, and racing stripes, the latter so we?d feel cooler. We start the test with a full tank of fuel, which is also when we weigh each car. Tire pressures are set each morning to the manufacturers? cold-inflation recommendations. Lap times and sector data are collected with GPS-based Racelogic VBOXs using predictive lap timing. All the cars are driven hard multiple times and by multiple drivers to ensure we extract the absolute best lap from each. As it turns out, with lightning comes rain. Lots of it. Two of our three scheduled days at VIR were rain soaked. Running in the wet is great for developing car-control skills, not for setting lap times, which meant we had to be on our game when the sky finally cleared. Can one of our two 5300-pound SUVs knock the Mosler MT900S (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-lightning-lap-2008-ll5-above-240000-page-5) from its 2:45.9 perch? Well, no. But one of them blew us away. The other we wrinkled in the slowest, wettest, least dramatic tire-wall contact in the known universe. This year marks the return of the 638-hp monster that answers to ?ZR1.? For LL No. 6, it shows up wearing gummy shoes and its best shot at smacking down the Mosler. And Ford?s Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca makes an attempt at a stunning performance-to-dollar achievement: a sub-three-minute lap for less than $50,000. Can it do it? Will it blow up trying? And what creative excuses will our drivers come up with if it doesn?t? Read on to find out. And don?t forget to spend some time number-spelunking in the three pages of on-track data. Continued... 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+ Lightning Lap 2012: 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302…
Click above link, then make full screen & turn up your sound (Oh, buckle `up) I'd love to be a test driver, or be able to drive a track like in the above `vid..
Take a break & EnJoy Check out the below article containing many `rides !
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<HGROUP>Lightning Lap 2012

For the sixth time, we assemble the newest, hottest vehicles on the market and subject them to a reference lap on our beloved VIR.
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- January 2012
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Thanks Car and Driver

Within a stone’s throw of the invisible line that separates North Carolina from Virginia is a very visible 4.1-mile winding line known as Virginia International Raceway’s (VIR) Grand West Course. Over the past six years, and in as many installments, we have brought production cars (115 of them, including this year’s crop) here in an effort to find just how quick the sportiest cars on the market are in a controlled environment.
Lightning Lap is our home-brewed version of the Nürburgring Nordschleife test that numerous manufacturers do when tuning new automobiles. Even though VIR is less than a third the length of the ’Ring, its long straights, elevation changes, and combination of slow, fast, and, scary-fast corners test a car’s capabilities better than any other track in North America.
To complete a lap in less than three minutes (think of it as VIR’s version of the ’Ring’s eight-minute mark), a production car must have unflappable brakes, high levels of grip, sure-footed handling, and, with two 0.6-mile-long straights, a stout engine.
For this test, the ultimate performance crucible, we don’t factor in how ridiculous a car looks, or how ugly it sounds, or any other subjective criteria. We rank the vehicles based only on best lap time.
Each car is slotted into one of the following five classes according to its base price, which includes all performance-enhancing options.
There are no LL5 cars ($250,000 and above) this year, and we did not invite any non-production LLU cars (“U” for “unclassified”). But we did bring a pair of high-po sport-utility vehicles, so we created a new class for SUVs and trucks called LLT.
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The Rules
The cars featured here are all unmodified production vehicles. We requested that each model be fitted with the sportiest options, such as bigger brakes, summer tires, sport suspensions, and racing stripes, the latter so we’d feel cooler. We start the test with a full tank of fuel, which is also when we weigh each car. Tire pressures are set each morning to the manufacturers’ cold-inflation recommendations. Lap times and sector data are collected with GPS-based Racelogic VBOXs using predictive lap timing. All the cars are driven hard multiple times and by multiple drivers to ensure we extract the absolute best lap from each.
As it turns out, with lightning comes rain. Lots of it. Two of our three scheduled days at VIR were rain soaked. Running in the wet is great for developing car-control skills, not for setting lap times, which meant we had to be on our game when the sky finally cleared.
Can one of our two 5300-pound SUVs knock the Mosler MT900S from its 2:45.9 perch? Well, no. But one of them blew us away. The other we wrinkled in the slowest, wettest, least dramatic tire-wall contact in the known universe. This year marks the return of the 638-hp monster that answers to “ZR1.” For LL No. 6, it shows up wearing gummy shoes and its best shot at smacking down the Mosler. And Ford’s Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca makes an attempt at a stunning performance-to-dollar achievement: a sub-three-minute lap for less than $50,000. Can it do it? Will it blow up trying? And what creative excuses will our drivers come up with if it doesn’t? Read on to find out.
And don’t forget to spend some time number-spelunking in the three pages of on-track data. Continued...
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02-01-2012, 06:04 AM

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Liked the Vid Space! Would be fun to do that for a living! I'd even work overtime

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02-01-2012, 06:54 AM

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I agree `Tadd, to have a `job that pays you to have fun

Would you like to drive your Monte on a track like that ?
If not

, would you let me drive it ? ~>

LOL

I guess I'll have to stick with driving Go-Karts & pretending it's a ZR`1 ~>
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02-01-2012, 09:27 AM

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Great video Space & shoot id work for free doin that job lol

02-01-2012, 09:49 AM

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Read that article while at the waiting room at the doctor a couple weeks back... cool thing that they do up there too. I've ridden by that track many a time, never stopped though.