Originally Posted by
monaroCountry
From:
Cadillac Drivers' Log
May 14, 2008
The Video You've Been Waiting To See
By Ed
We just came back from Germany. As promised, here's the video of John Heinricy's sub-8 minute lap of the Nurburgring's Nordschleife.
To clarify, the car had no performance or operational modifications outside of what we intend to offer in production. We did have a couple of customary safety precautions, as the first goal of our testing is always to keep drivers like John safe. The car had a harness bar upon which a 6-way racing safety belt system was mounted. We also had a fire supression unit on board.
These things add a little bit of weight to the car, certainly not helping performance any. Stock tires, too.
We had a chance to mount some cameras on the car and had the benefit of a beautiful day. Enjoy.
Yeah, right.
Sparco Evo 3 seats are incredibly light, and easily took some of the weight off that car, even with a harness bar.
Autoblog said something similar, except that it didn't hinder performance.
Either way, it's not a stock Caddy, so why should GM try to throw it in the face of BMW whose time was set by a stock M5? The testing part is fine, but I highly doubt BMW or Audi will care they got beat by a car wearing equipment that just so happens to also be racing equipment.
Originally Posted by
clutch-monkey
apart from the seat, harness, fire extinguisher and rollcage, the caddy is stock, it even did the time with an auto, so i don't know why you think it's modified.
Common sense will say otherwise. It has modifications/non-production materials. It's a modified car as far as I'm concerned unless someone wants to test a M5 or RS4 with similar equipment and get a time for them.
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