Car Porn.......beauty meets speed (SFW)

**PNWbrit** · 06-04-2018, 12:25 PM

Cool retro Porsche liveries at Le Mans this year.

**Bobby Stainless** · 06-04-2018, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by basinbeater

yeah that resto mod dino is awesome I love it. Singer has proven people will pay for a properly done resto mod.

Apparently he is the builder or involved with them in some way. He tried to sell us one of the 25.

**Bobby Stainless** · 06-04-2018, 01:00 PM

That stock 375hp F355 Spider hung in there pretty well with a "10 second" built Supra.

**delco714** · 06-10-2018, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by huckbucket

Would kill for this car ... ooozes sex

That's a Ford gt with porsche headlights

**delco714** · 06-10-2018, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by Bromontane

Classic. Love that movie

**Mazderati** · 06-24-2018, 10:53 PM

**Bobby Stainless** · 06-25-2018, 06:21 AM

Dreams have become reality.

**Caucasian Asian** · 06-25-2018, 11:12 AM

Friday evening, I was taking the garbage out when I heard what I thought was a couple of rowdy street bikes turn up my street. Not giving it much thought, I went back into the garage. Turned around when they got closer and saw that it wasn't three crotch rockets, but a Mclaren with a monster wing snarling and spitting as it went past. I was pleasantly surprised at the low speed he was driving, since most of the douchebags that drive through the neighborhood in their fancy cars do it as fast as they can show off.

**Mazderati** · 06-28-2018, 03:55 PM

**SkiCougar** · 06-28-2018, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless

Dreams have become reality.

I would pay money to see anyone take that thing over 60 on any public road.

**delco714** · 06-28-2018, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mazderati

No.

Beehive..that's what that sounded like

**PNWbrit** · 06-29-2018, 10:00 AM

Bernhard breaks Bellof's Nürburgring record in 919

And just like that it was done. After 35 years the greatest lap record of them all was broken. Not just by a little, but by a quantum that beggars belief.

In truth it was smashed at the first attempt, a 5min 31sec straight out of the box. “That’s already pretty tasty”, said 919 chief engineer, Stephen Mitas, as Timo crossed the line. “And he’s not even warmed up yet...”

If all goes to plan it was always going to be thus – the assured expressions worn by the team on the eve of the attempt told us this much – but by how much?

The 919 Evo project is something only Porsche would do: take the fastest sports prototype of them all and make it MUCH faster. Not to race. Just to prove a point.

Faster than a contemporary F1 car around Spa, and now the fastest of them all around the Nordschleife.

Speaking to Timo Bernhard the night before the Nürburgring record attempt you’d never guess he was poised to make history. But the scale of the challenge was clear. “This place is different. The margins are so small and the consequences so great you simply can’t attack the lap in a car like this as you would at somewhere like Spa. I have to stay away from the kerbs, so the line is slightly different. If I can make a clean lap we will have the record, but by how much I don’t know. The section from Hohe Acht through to Pflanzgarten 2 will be the biggest challenge. The speed is huge and there’s only one line.” A fine line at that.

The Gods are smiling on Nürburg as the team makes its final preparations. The sun is shining, the track pristine. The install lap is made at 8am, the first attempt shortly after 8.30. Then a second run comes at 9.00. Will it be under 5min 25sec? Might it be 5min 11sec? Could it even be sub-5?

From off-the-record conversations we know the team has aspirations for a full minute under Bellof’s race lap record, but only Bernhard knows for sure how quick he can go. In this age of simulation, prediction and telemetry that’s refreshingly old-school. It’s something Bellof would surely have relished.

When the moment comes its both epic and quietly emotional. Knowing smiles between team-mates. Hugs and handshakes. And then, when Bernhard returns, cheers and applause. Some felt it was a record that should be preserved, that to break it would be to somehow betray Bellof’s memory. I disagree.

Presented with the fastest racing car the world has ever seen would Bellof have hesitated? Not for a second. And nor did Bernhard.

Congratulations Porsche. Congratulations Timo.

You’ve honoured the man and his legacy in the best way possible with 5min 19.546sec of pure magic.

**Mazderati** · 06-29-2018, 10:18 AM

^ Sick.

**pfluffenmeister** · 06-29-2018, 10:23 AM

^^^ Good Lord.

**PNWbrit** · 06-29-2018, 10:36 AM

For any of you who don't know much about Stefan Bellof..

One move too many

Stefan Bellof was the greatest lost talent of his generation. He had time and skill on his side and a Ferrari contract in his pocket. But he couldn't stop himself

"As quick a driver as I've ever seen... "

Martin Brundle raced alongside Schumacher and rubbed wheels with Senna, but is talking here about Stefan Bellof. Thirty years have elapsed since the German’s passing. Time, then, to reflect on a sports car world champion who might have achieved so much more

How good was Stefan Bellof? The statistics will ever be incomplete, but there’s evidence that – with the right opportunities – he could have extended his collection of world titles beyond the one he won during his second sports car campaign.