As many of you are aware we took a customer owned Nissan GT-R over to the 'ring last week and compared it against Porsche's familiar 997 GT2 press car.
Chris Harris who has raced throughout the season in the VLN set the lap times on Tuesday on a drying (but not fully dry track). The GT-R was wearing the same Bridgestone's as used in Nissan's filmed lap and the 997 GT2 was fitted with Michelin Cup + tyres.
You can probably guess that I'm not going to tell you the lap times until we publish the article, but it will perhaps settle this debate once and for all (famous last words...). Chris followed the same procedure for both cars, namely 3 laps comprising an out-lap and two flying laps, so each had the same opportunity to shine.
Chris' Column
Chris' initial thoughts are in his weekly column (above) and hopefully he's writing the article as we speak ready for publishing early next week.
We will have full videos of each lap plus telemetry readings and an explanation of where each had an advantage around the lap. We seem to be the first magazine to perform a back-to-back comparison, with a driver capable of extracting decent times, so we look forward to sharing the feature with you soon.