Time was confirmed by Lexus as 7:14.64, a video was provided. OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE070 street tires had been used. The LFA Nurburgring Package is the only car ever to have lapped Nurburgring in less than 7:20 without racing compound super-slick competition tires such as Michelin Pilot Sport Cup R compound track tires or Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires
@HighocHighrevRE070 Potenza is slower or comparable than the pilot sport cup, which is slower than the pilot sport cup2, which is 10s slower than the cup 2R. So pretty safe to say that the LFA could make up 15s on cup 2R
love that sound ! Thats the sound of a very high tech N/A V10 engine that weighs less than V6 engines and is Euro 5 compatible. The engine symphony is thanks to YAMAHA who finetuned the engines sound. Love that sound
People get hung up to much on numbers. Laptimes and horsepower only matter if ypur racing. Toyota put all their effort in making the lfa fantastic to drive. How the car feels is whats inportant not laptimes.
Fastest Nurburgring lap time in a car that you can actually use comfortably on the street... And it did it on standard street tires no less!!! Wonder how much quicker it would have been with those super sticky, barely legal Cup competition R compound tires that some resorted to using to get good times. Probably would've lopped about 10 seconds off I bet.
Just like ysterday someone make a same exact copy of this cae with extra 10hp from the standard lfa on gt7. On sport soft tires it did a 6.50 ish lap, and more tweaking left can done a 6.45
@@matthewstander118and the interesting part is, if this car runs nurburgring again but on cup 2rs, i believe this will break the 7 minute barrier, for a car that doesn't scream " i am a track car" and is more than a decade old.
Why cant you TH-cam commentators & "arm chair drivers" give credit where credit is due? A time of 7.14 is simply incredible and should be commended... My sincerest congratulations to both the driver and manufacturer!
It is a great record that has not yet faded away! It shows plainly that the LFA is a serious real sports car that is fundamentally different from other supercars of the time. Many people are amazed and admire the sound of the LFA's engine and its appearance, but professional racers are amazed by its suspension and body rigidity. Remove the LFA's undercover and you will see machined aluminum reinforcement parts stretched out like a stock car. The racing suspension with surge tank clearly incorporates the technology of a racing machine used around the track. There are no turbos or motors anywhere, not to mention the amazing electronic controls and drive distribution features. The suspension is unbelievably flexible for its insanely low center of gravity and low ride height, and never bottoms out on any surface. The driver can push the V10 engine and brakes to their limits with the confidence of an immensely reliable suspension. Lexus did not add any special equipment to the car for this video to give it a track time advantage. In addition, Lexus added unnecessary weight for the sake of safety. If some crazy rich person were to put S tires on the LFA, remove the plush interior and passenger seat, install racing aerodynamics and lightweight acrylic windows, and hire a professional racing driver with his head unscrewed in a carbon Recaro seat to drive it around this track, he would be able to achieve a time of around 6 minutes and 50 seconds. It is quite possible that a time of around 6 minutes and 50 seconds could be achieved on this track. Unfortunately, there are only a little more than 500 LFAs in the world, and not many people have thought of modifying them. One of the few who did, however, switched the car to a 2JZ for drifting. It may be better than having it sit in the dust in the garage, but to be honest, it's ridiculous.
Yeah but what tyres did the Enzo used? Also keep in mind that this record was made by a factory Lexus driver. Compare times made by the car manufacturers themselves vs others and see that the records alre ALWAYS done by the manufacturers. The Enzo is anorther breed of an animal and with a nurburgring setup, the right tyres and a factory driver be sure that it would do way better than 7:25. Not saying that this lap isn't worthy mind you!
People underestimate how impressive this lap is. 7:14 with standard Bridgestone Potenza tyres. Todays equivalent of the PS4S. Porsche do all of their lap records with PS Cup 2R tyres. Imagine what this would do with Cup 2Rs 🤯
This just made me realize that GT5 really is the real driving simulator. Track is dead accurate. Driven around it more than 500laps in game. He lift off the gas at the exact location as i do...cool. Driver is pushing reaaly hard! looks like a JGTC driver ?
That engine sound is amazing in this car. and despite all the hate on the LFA, this is a nice time. Just wish Lexus had made it much more accessible to buyers. This is not gonna sell too well at the outrageous base price they stuck in it.
It really is the successor to the 2000GT, a car which on the surface isn't a spec sheet hero, especially being so expensive. But it is actually a very well engineered, record breaking car that shows what Toyota is capable of.
@Bfagayl 7:14 is an impressive time. This Car was built and tuned specifically for the Nurbugring and has an added roll cage. The ZR1 ONLY DID two laps around the Nurbugring and got 7:19. There's no point in comparing the cars though. One you can't even consider a production car and the other you can get at many Chevy dealers or get one in 2 months exactly with all the options you want. ZR1= high perfromance production car LFA Nurbugring= purpose built street legal track car
so a front splitter, front canards, rear spoiler, roll cage and semi slick race tires...... and still 2 secs off of the viper acr. gotta love that snake
One of the fastest road cars of its time, impressive, it would be great to have a lap today with current technology tires, it could be under 7:10 for sure. P.s. It's a shame the video's poor sound quality 😢
THE funny truth is that the ACR used sticky Semi Slick Michelin Cup tires, the same tires the Corvette ZR1 uses whilst the LFA uses standard OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE70 street performance tires and still manages to catch up the Viper, that alone shows how much potential the LFA has.
@iPROFITDON Keep in mind this car was not built from to ground up to lap the nurburgring, it was a variant of an already existing car so it had to have the same engine, chassis, ect. With the sport cup tires and the right driver it could probably lap the ring faster than an acr but that an if situation so who knows. Personally if I had the money, I would give up the extra 2 seconds over 7 miles and pay an extra 300k for that interior lol
11-20-2011;Faster than lightning - vomit!I'll take a fleet of'em! I just can't imagine what it felt like roaring past the Schvartzwaldt at 166 MPH! unkle Akira must've been drifting for about 11% of that total excursion!Going to need help getting away from the repeat button!-Eric Urscher.
It sound like an F1 car, high revving engines sound like that. Check the video; "On-Board Schumacher's F1 Laps Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Ferrari Racing Days 2011 in 720HD"
I have a V8 8400rpm engine also naturally aspirated , it also sound like a bike. It revs up extremely fast when you tap the throttle it sounds like a racebike. This is the real sound of racing. Today lesser cars resort to turbos to make power which completely eliminate racing sounds and make the car sound like a cow (the animal) when accelerating.
@whothaplaya What are you trying to argue? The LFA Nurburgring version stomped the ZR1, period. The ZR1 did more than 2 laps around the ring and you would be out of your mind if you think otherwise. They had to do so in order to improve upon the times. Also bottom line is no one is going to be able to reproduce the Nurburgring times that the ZR1 did around the ring.
Actually the tire used by both ACR and ZR1 is the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup (with ZP or Zero Pressure for the ZR1). Both are semi-slick and are competiton DOT tires but they're not super slick or R compound. R compound are not road legal whereas the Michelins are. But you're right compared to the tires used by LFA or even the GTR, the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup has less thread count and minimal rolling resistance.
@whothaplaya The LFA’s 20-inch forged aluminum wheels are shod with new asymmectric tread pattern Bridgestone tires - 265/35 ZR20 at the front and 305/30 ZR20 profile at the rear. Which are also 100% street legal and it COMES with it from the factory.
@ZR1Terror I would be interested to see how this car would go with the better Michelin PSC Rubber that the ACR Viper used.I no the Bridgestones Lexus chose to use are an upgrade over the SOO1's the stock LFA uses thats the comparison I'd like to see I think if this occured the NE LFA definitel goes quicker.
@BENKATOK Engine is produced by Toyota, not Yamaha. Yamaha only tuned the engine head. Same partnership have Ford and Cosworth, or Honda and Mugen, or BMW and Alpina.
@aieljose They ADDED the roll cage. When the one of the lucky 50 get their Nurbugring edition LFA it will not have the roll cage that is used in the 7:14 lap. The ZR1 on the other hand will have the PS Cup tires.
@E1N9A8N0DA The thing is the Z06 and ZR1 are actually production cars. They look the same has the base vette but have almost nothing in common. The LFA NE was designed and tuned SPECIFICALLY for the ring. The ZR1 was not tuned for any one track the LFA NE was.I don't find it impressive that they spent 5 months at the ring tuning a car and only made it 5 seconds faster around a 13 mile track then a ZR1.
@SuperchargedSwine If you mean special as in better then yes. The zr1 runs on Michilen Pilot Sport Cups 100% street legal and are a factory option and are the standard tires for the 458 italia, Porsche 911 gt2rs and gt3rs, and Bmw M3.
Dude, the tires make a huge difference. With a same car, same driver but one using slick and the other one using non-slick, the 7 minutes lap time can be over 20 seconds faster for the slick. But if it rains suddenly, the slick could end-up in a towing car.
Lexus have got it bang on with this car. Have a normal LFA for people who are normal and want to have a decent ride, and have a hardcore, spine killing ' Nurburgring ’edition for people who are enthusiasts of the Nurburgring. Well done them.
or perhaps because the LFA is designed as more of a high performance daily driver, whereas the ACR is basically a road-legal track car, & the ZR1 is inexpensive enough on its own that they can afford to tack the extra weight that those Pilot Cup tires put on the price tag & know that it won't adversely affect sales too much. In any case, its hard to imagine that semi-slick track tires would add to lap times. That's like saying perhaps sneakers would slow a runner down as opposed to flip-flops...
@geophysiscs The car most probably Iida used was a prototype most likely the NE LFA's do not have a cage as the carbon weave tech used has the tensile strength 4 times as stiff as aluminium. It isn't close to the GR LFA as that runs a full race slick wide body kit to acccomdate the 330 wide slicks.
@tsp996 The LFA when it broke the record was actually the NE owners release day which was part of the package when you buy the car.The 7.14 run was'nt even planned it just panned out that way as all the media were also doing there reviews of the car at that time the run was taking place.
@E1N9A8N0DA The Z06 and LFA have the same ring time. The tires are stock from the factory and street legal. If you actually looked at the tires only that outside 1/2'" is slick the rest is rain tread, so they are far from "super slick". "non-stock equipment" what exactly did the ZR1 have added that affected the performance of the car? I know that the LFA NE had a full roll cage added.Unless a fire extinguisher and radio add perfromance because thats the only non stock equipment ZR1 had
@BeltDrivenMadness Yes, adding lightness is better performance upgrade than classic power up on engine. ZR1 using carbon fiber material, ZO6 fiberglass. But in ZO7 package, ZO6 is even more lighter.
Don't you mean the SRT TA? I can see what you are trying to say but the SRT TA is a newer car than the ACR and uses more advanced techs. And tyres do make quiet a bit of a difference and do shave off a few seconds in terms of lap time. I'll admit though, the TA is quiet impressive.
@E1N9A8N0DA It wasn't 5 months that it took them to beat the record. I took over 5 months of testing at the Ring and one drivers life and they didn't even break the record if you want to say the LFA NE is production car so is the Gumpert Apollo. "The thing is the LFA only needed some gear to smoke the 'vette, without opening its hood. Right or wrong ?" They completely changed the gear ratio's, suspension etc. SPECIFICALLY for the ring.
@Richmoziz The were Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires 100% street legal. As for the front splitter it was added for the lap just like the roll cage was added for the LFA NE lap.
What people have to realise also is that the LFA's a platform for materials and technologies that will also filter down through the range I don't think this is the case with the Viper and ZR-1 and Z06
@aieljose I'm not belittling the LFA at all. I'm just saying comparing the two is stupid. Because the ZR1 you can buy TOMORROW at a Chevy dealership or wait two months and have all the options you want. The LFA Nurbugring edition it is quite possible that you could NEVER buy one even if you had the money if none of the 50 owners (or less) decides to sell them. The Nubugring edition is a great car for what it is but comparing it to an actually production car that anyone can buy is pointless.
@BENKATOK Is that why on the LFA's engine cover it says handmade by Lexus. Also you do realise Toyota own a % of Yamaha don't you and the only input they had was in head design of which was in conjunction to Toyota's spec.
This lap time is indeed impressive. Viper ACR lapped I believe 7min 12sec. The big difference between the LFA Nurburgring (here) and the normal LFA is 10 more hp, additional carbon spliters for downforce and an fixed spoiler as well as lighter alloy wheels. The original LFA did it in 7min 38sec. Kind of being bias here, but the LFA, ACR, and 911 GT2 all have fixed spoilers, oppose to the ZR1. My point here is, what if an ZR1/Z06, Enzo had an fixed spoiler? Just a thought.
@ssj04 that being said, i am a huge JDM fan and would usually chose an LFA over a ZR1.. but the ZR1 deserves lots of credit, along with the amazing LFA, which gives me the chills every time i hear it..
If someone we're generous enough to lend its unit to redo the lap record run, with Semi-Slicks and better driver with good weather, it could dip below to a 6 minute lap. Someone have to do it
@AlMurgab RIGHT. First off porsche needs to CONFIRM the 7:18 laptime with a video before they even start trying. Second Porsche is already using the best tire which is the michelin sport cups. this lfa destroyed the porsche's claimed laptime with the best tire. if the lfa ne had these tires a 7:0X laptime wouldn't even be a surprise.
Time was confirmed by Lexus as 7:14.64, a video was provided. OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE070 street tires had been used. The LFA Nurburgring Package is the only car ever to have lapped Nurburgring in less than 7:20 without racing compound super-slick competition tires such as Michelin Pilot Sport Cup R compound track tires or Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires
P Zero Corsas are not really R compound tyres tbh
@@max.racingand dual clutch, having faster shifts makes a huge difference
@HighocHighrevRE070 Potenza is slower or comparable than the pilot sport cup, which is slower than the pilot sport cup2, which is 10s slower than the cup 2R. So pretty safe to say that the LFA could make up 15s on cup 2R
@@annonymously331agreed. Exit speed is everything at the ring. Might be high 50s but sub 7 for sure
The sound of this engine on downshifts is a pure delight!
Keep in mind this car retains all the luxury stock equipment and stock engine and still set the record.
the power of down-force! :)
Plus roll cage.
So does corvette z06 and gt3
This car was not stock. Roll cage, special Bridgestone tires and "Nurburgring package".
@@ToyotaAristo niurburing package is still stock, u can drive it on the road, it only means fixed wing and better aero and a few hp more...so yea...
love that sound !
Thats the sound of a very high tech N/A V10 engine that weighs less than V6 engines and is Euro 5 compatible. The engine symphony is thanks to YAMAHA who finetuned the engines sound.
Love that sound
7:04 REV LIMITER WOWW
It’s music 😁
Damn he killed that lap. Love the LFA
People get hung up to much on numbers. Laptimes and horsepower only matter if ypur racing. Toyota put all their effort in making the lfa fantastic to drive. How the car feels is whats inportant not laptimes.
I agree! The LFA was not made for these lap times. It was made for the pure sound and feel.
+Krevin Grard But the LFA is fantastic to drive and also a beast on the track. Sub-7:20 at the Nurburgring with less than 600 HP? Amazing.
Lfa is in my top 3 Supercars.
Correct. I have a GT3 with full Akrapovic. 991.2
I would have the LFA if I had the cash and could find one.
Just for the symphony 🎉
Fastest Nurburgring lap time in a car that you can actually use comfortably on the street... And it did it on standard street tires no less!!! Wonder how much quicker it would have been with those super sticky, barely legal Cup competition R compound tires that some resorted to using to get good times. Probably would've lopped about 10 seconds off I bet.
@@max.racing Makes sense. Hard-edged, race version.
Still such an awesome car. Dream car, that SOUND!
Sub 7 with modern street legal rubber
Just like ysterday someone make a same exact copy of this cae with extra 10hp from the standard lfa on gt7. On sport soft tires it did a 6.50 ish lap, and more tweaking left can done a 6.45
Crazy how this old Lexus is still faster than the new M4 CSL around the ring
With older street tires too. If it was wearing the Cup 2 Rs, it would easily shave a couple of seconds.
A 7:14 is seriously bonkers, considering the record now is a hair below 6:45. Love seeing automotive improvements overtime.
Was looking for a comment such as this. For a car made in 2010. even for todays standards that is a mental time.
@@matthewstander118and the interesting part is, if this car runs nurburgring again but on cup 2rs, i believe this will break the 7 minute barrier, for a car that doesn't scream " i am a track car" and is more than a decade old.
@@-_--le3zk Absolutely
Why cant you TH-cam commentators & "arm chair drivers" give credit where credit is due?
A time of 7.14 is simply incredible and should be commended...
My sincerest congratulations to both the driver and manufacturer!
It is a great record that has not yet faded away!
It shows plainly that the LFA is a serious real sports car that is fundamentally different from other supercars of the time.
Many people are amazed and admire the sound of the LFA's engine and its appearance, but professional racers are amazed by its suspension and body rigidity.
Remove the LFA's undercover and you will see machined aluminum reinforcement parts stretched out like a stock car.
The racing suspension with surge tank clearly incorporates the technology of a racing machine used around the track.
There are no turbos or motors anywhere, not to mention the amazing electronic controls and drive distribution features.
The suspension is unbelievably flexible for its insanely low center of gravity and low ride height, and never bottoms out on any surface.
The driver can push the V10 engine and brakes to their limits with the confidence of an immensely reliable suspension.
Lexus did not add any special equipment to the car for this video to give it a track time advantage.
In addition, Lexus added unnecessary weight for the sake of safety.
If some crazy rich person were to put S tires on the LFA, remove the plush interior and passenger seat, install racing aerodynamics and lightweight acrylic windows, and hire a professional racing driver with his head unscrewed in a carbon Recaro seat to drive it around this track, he would be able to achieve a time of around 6 minutes and 50 seconds. It is quite possible that a time of around 6 minutes and 50 seconds could be achieved on this track.
Unfortunately, there are only a little more than 500 LFAs in the world, and not many people have thought of modifying them.
One of the few who did, however, switched the car to a 2JZ for drifting.
It may be better than having it sit in the dust in the garage, but to be honest, it's ridiculous.
I love the small delay of the single clutch transmission,it gives this car even more charm.
It feels so mechanically raw and I fucking love it!
that was insane!!! well done to Lexus and the driver, Akira Iida
that sound...
man, truly magnificent
This is why In my opinion this one of the best cars ever made
FR 👌
Faster than the Ferrari Enzo and the GTR around the track. That is awesome. I will buy this some day--I have to work hard and be lucky too.
Did you buy it yet?
not a chance this shit goes for more than a million@@addanashraf
Yeah but what tyres did the Enzo used? Also keep in mind that this record was made by a factory Lexus driver. Compare times made by the car manufacturers themselves vs others and see that the records alre ALWAYS done by the manufacturers. The Enzo is anorther breed of an animal and with a nurburgring setup, the right tyres and a factory driver be sure that it would do way better than 7:25. Not saying that this lap isn't worthy mind you!
@@ripptorrthat record not factory lexus driver.. It's akira lida that driver died in the accident
In Sha Allah your dream comes true😆
People underestimate how impressive this lap is. 7:14 with standard Bridgestone Potenza tyres. Todays equivalent of the PS4S. Porsche do all of their lap records with PS Cup 2R tyres. Imagine what this would do with Cup 2Rs 🤯
Wish they could place the microphone at the exhaust dump
This just made me realize that GT5 really is the real driving simulator. Track is dead accurate. Driven around it more than 500laps in game. He lift off the gas at the exact location as i do...cool.
Driver is pushing reaaly hard! looks like a JGTC driver ?
Have you tried gt7 yet?
Thumbs up for 3:40 bird crap!! Nextgen sims should have birdcrap and mosquitoes added right away!!
Cruis'n USA on the Nintendo64 (1996!) has this feature when you select the view in front of the car ;)
in NFS Shift 2 Unleashed you have dirt, bird crap and little rocks flying into windscreen
Awesome car & achievement :-)
N/A + High Revs + V10 = Eargasmic!
I did 7:29 in the LFA in Gran Turismo 7 and this legend here did 7:14 in real life. Jesus Christ
😂
Wow what a lap 🤯 the absolute balls on that driver to be sending it on stock tires. Toyota HAS to let their engineers cook more often
Now that is what i call talent. I bet "everyone of us have played some game and say i could do the same" but no. Great vid!
This driver must've been thinking during this attack " ah....I would rather run with AE86 than this fancy one "
He is a well known 86 nerd in Japan.
That was some serious driving there. Nice job.
That engine sound is amazing in this car. and despite all the hate on the LFA, this is a nice time. Just wish Lexus had made it much more accessible to buyers. This is not gonna sell too well at the outrageous base price they stuck in it.
Correct. But they’re pretty special here in 2024 😊
nice engine lovely sound❤️
It really is the successor to the 2000GT, a car which on the surface isn't a spec sheet hero, especially being so expensive. But it is actually a very well engineered, record breaking car that shows what Toyota is capable of.
The rev limiter sounds amazing!
@Bfagayl 7:14 is an impressive time. This Car was built and tuned specifically for the Nurbugring and has an added roll cage. The ZR1 ONLY DID two laps around the Nurbugring and got 7:19. There's no point in comparing the cars though. One you can't even consider a production car and the other you can get at many Chevy dealers or get one in 2 months exactly with all the options you want. ZR1= high perfromance production car LFA Nurbugring= purpose built street legal track car
Imagine time with michelin sport cup 2R. It is a serious track weapon.
so a front splitter, front canards, rear spoiler, roll cage and semi slick race tires...... and still 2 secs off of the viper acr. gotta love that snake
Still bonkers and rare as in 2024 😊
Nice, very nice. Only shame is the sound quality is so poor (one of the things I was most looking forward to about this video was the noise)!
The LFA deserve his place between the bests. Well done. Now make a lap with racing tires. LFA and GTR japan power.
Never happened 😢 2024
One of the fastest road cars of its time, impressive, it would be great to have a lap today with current technology tires, it could be under 7:10 for sure.
P.s. It's a shame the video's poor sound quality 😢
That guy drove the shit out of that Lexus. Awesome video!
THE funny truth is that the ACR used sticky Semi Slick Michelin Cup tires, the same tires the Corvette ZR1 uses whilst the LFA uses standard OEM Bridgestone Potenza RE70 street performance tires and still manages to catch up the Viper, that alone shows how much potential the LFA has.
i could listen to this all day
i'm the bug at 3:40
RIP
@iPROFITDON Keep in mind this car was not built from to ground up to lap the nurburgring, it was a variant of an already existing car so it had to have the same engine, chassis, ect. With the sport cup tires and the right driver it could probably lap the ring faster than an acr but that an if situation so who knows. Personally if I had the money, I would give up the extra 2 seconds over 7 miles and pay an extra 300k for that interior lol
FR 👌
11-20-2011;Faster than lightning - vomit!I'll take a fleet of'em! I just can't imagine what it felt like roaring past the Schvartzwaldt at 166 MPH! unkle Akira must've been drifting for about 11% of that total excursion!Going to need help getting away from the repeat button!-Eric Urscher.
Not to mention, the LFA is a proper car and the ACR is a stripped-down to the balls racing version. :)
More than just a car
The LFA is the only car to ever get below 7:20 without competition tires, if they put on something stickier the Viper wouldn't stand a chance.
I wonder if they could beat the time with the new compound tyres ??
This is a sub 7 minute car with pilot super cup 2's and a different driver no doubt.
@@N-Collective. Yep
Great job love this car now your not making anymore can't wait to see what you come up with
7:03 eargams...
Let's not forget the ACR is running cup tires (The Cup tires out of the box are "Competition DOT Track R compounds" with 80 tread wear).
How is this 10 years old?
13
The LFA spent 5 months at the Ring to hold the record for a whole 2 weeks.
Competition is fierce.
2024
That car sound like a motor bike
It sound like an F1 car, high revving engines sound like that.
Check the video; "On-Board Schumacher's F1 Laps Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Ferrari Racing Days 2011 in 720HD"
The Reason is Because of the Camera *TRULY* 0_0
I have a V8 8400rpm engine also naturally aspirated , it also sound like a bike. It revs up extremely fast when you tap the throttle it sounds like a racebike. This is the real sound of racing. Today lesser cars resort to turbos to make power which completely eliminate racing sounds and make the car sound like a cow (the animal) when accelerating.
Shitty mic quality.
@@goognamgoognw6637 bmw ?
@whothaplaya What are you trying to argue? The LFA Nurburgring version stomped the ZR1, period. The ZR1 did more than 2 laps around the ring and you would be out of your mind if you think otherwise. They had to do so in order to improve upon the times.
Also bottom line is no one is going to be able to reproduce the Nurburgring times that the ZR1 did around the ring.
I have never heard anything that sounds so much like my Mums old Bernina sewing machine. Yep she sews that fast.
+deadbrad Obviously you have never heard yourself speaking as well .... Yep you are that dumb.
Actually the tire used by both ACR and ZR1 is the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup (with ZP or Zero Pressure for the ZR1). Both are semi-slick and are competiton DOT tires but they're not super slick or R compound. R compound are not road legal whereas the Michelins are.
But you're right compared to the tires used by LFA or even the GTR, the Michelin Pilot Sport Cup has less thread count and minimal rolling resistance.
@whothaplaya
The LFA’s 20-inch forged aluminum wheels are shod with new asymmectric tread pattern Bridgestone tires - 265/35 ZR20 at the front and 305/30 ZR20 profile at the rear. Which are also 100% street legal and it COMES with it from the factory.
Gorgeous
@ZR1Terror I would be interested to see how this car would go with the better Michelin PSC Rubber that the ACR Viper used.I no the Bridgestones Lexus chose to use are an upgrade over the SOO1's the stock LFA uses thats the comparison I'd like to see I think if this occured the NE LFA definitel goes quicker.
Daym that driver is gooooood!
She sure is 🧐
@BENKATOK
Engine is produced by Toyota, not Yamaha. Yamaha only tuned the engine head. Same partnership have Ford and Cosworth, or Honda and Mugen, or BMW and Alpina.
@CHARLIETWW they used Bridgestone Potenza RE070 tires...which are factory tires with the LFA Nürburgring-Edition
@aieljose They ADDED the roll cage. When the one of the lucky 50 get their Nurbugring edition LFA it will not have the roll cage that is used in the 7:14 lap. The ZR1 on the other hand will have the PS Cup tires.
@E1N9A8N0DA The thing is the Z06 and ZR1 are actually production cars. They look the same has the base vette but have almost nothing in common. The LFA NE was designed and tuned SPECIFICALLY for the ring. The ZR1 was not tuned for any one track the LFA NE was.I don't find it impressive that they spent 5 months at the ring tuning a car and only made it 5 seconds faster around a 13 mile track then a ZR1.
Someday ill drive one
Imagine it w/ a DCT. Glorious vehicle.
look at how happy he is at the end! LFAgasm
@SuperchargedSwine If you mean special as in better then yes. The zr1 runs on Michilen Pilot Sport Cups 100% street legal and are a factory option and are the standard tires for the 458 italia, Porsche 911 gt2rs and gt3rs, and Bmw M3.
@mpfsupra notice that the vettes and ACR cost 1/4 the price of the lfa, and can be tuned to make the lfa look like a $400k prius.
Dude, the tires make a huge difference. With a same car, same driver but one using slick and the other one using non-slick, the 7 minutes lap time can be over 20 seconds faster for the slick. But if it rains suddenly, the slick could end-up in a towing car.
Correct
Lexus have got it bang on with this car. Have a normal LFA for people who are normal and want to have a decent ride, and have a hardcore, spine killing ' Nurburgring ’edition for people who are enthusiasts of the Nurburgring. Well done them.
Correct. 2024
@whothaplaya The ACR ran with a racing front splitter and full on slick tires meaning in that spec it was actually not road legal.
what you guys don't know is that the LFA was running a full roll cage when it ran this laptime you can clearly see it
Whoever the driver is, is insane
or perhaps because the LFA is designed as more of a high performance daily driver, whereas the ACR is basically a road-legal track car, & the ZR1 is inexpensive enough on its own that they can afford to tack the extra weight that those Pilot Cup tires put on the price tag & know that it won't adversely affect sales too much.
In any case, its hard to imagine that semi-slick track tires would add to lap times. That's like saying perhaps sneakers would slow a runner down as opposed to flip-flops...
@geophysiscs The car most probably Iida used was a prototype most likely the NE LFA's do not have a cage as the carbon weave tech used has the tensile strength 4 times as stiff as aluminium.
It isn't close to the GR LFA as that runs a full race slick wide body kit to acccomdate the 330 wide slicks.
Yes but The tires used on the LFA are road legal, the ACRs tires are not.
@tsp996 The LFA when it broke the record was actually the NE owners release day which was part of the package when you buy the car.The 7.14 run was'nt even planned it just panned out that way as all the media were also doing there reviews of the car at that time the run was taking place.
@E1N9A8N0DA The Z06 and LFA have the same ring time. The tires are stock from the factory and street legal. If you actually looked at the tires only that outside 1/2'" is slick the rest is rain tread, so they are far from "super slick". "non-stock equipment" what exactly did the ZR1 have added that affected the performance of the car? I know that the LFA NE had a full roll cage added.Unless a fire extinguisher and radio add perfromance because thats the only non stock equipment ZR1 had
@BeltDrivenMadness
Yes, adding lightness is better performance upgrade than classic power up on engine.
ZR1 using carbon fiber material, ZO6 fiberglass. But in ZO7 package, ZO6 is even more lighter.
Don't you mean the SRT TA?
I can see what you are trying to say but the SRT TA is a newer car than the ACR and uses more advanced techs.
And tyres do make quiet a bit of a difference and do shave off a few seconds in terms of lap time.
I'll admit though, the TA is quiet impressive.
Is it weird if I listen to this at night to help me relax just here for the soundtrack 🏁😏🤪
Not weird dude. Exactly what I’m doing now 😂
Maybe both weird ?
@@ziggyfreud5357
No, you're not. I am here too!
Actually the LFA nurb has specially made sticky Bridgestones, not available on any other car. You are right about the ACR and ZR1 though.
Imagine what it could do on cup 2 Rs
AWESOME !
I'm not a Toyota fan but IMHO this car is great.
Paris Hilton already has the 2nd LFA.
A Nurburgring Edition may be set to her 3rd LFA.
I wonder what it can do with modern cup2r
@E1N9A8N0DA It wasn't 5 months that it took them to beat the record. I took over 5 months of testing at the Ring and one drivers life and they didn't even break the record if you want to say the LFA NE is production car so is the Gumpert Apollo. "The thing is the LFA only needed some gear to smoke the 'vette, without opening its hood. Right or wrong ?" They completely changed the gear ratio's, suspension etc. SPECIFICALLY for the ring.
@Richmoziz The were Michelin Pilot Sport Cup tires 100% street legal. As for the front splitter it was added for the lap just like the roll cage was added for the LFA NE lap.
What people have to realise also is that the LFA's a platform for materials and technologies that will also filter down through the range I don't think this is the case with the Viper and ZR-1 and Z06
@superchargedAMG 5 seconds is BIG difference. LFA set a new benchmark for street legal production car.
@aieljose I'm not belittling the LFA at all. I'm just saying comparing the two is stupid. Because the ZR1 you can buy TOMORROW at a Chevy dealership or wait two months and have all the options you want. The LFA Nurbugring edition it is quite possible that you could NEVER buy one even if you had the money if none of the 50 owners (or less) decides to sell them. The Nubugring edition is a great car for what it is but comparing it to an actually production car that anyone can buy is pointless.
@BENKATOK Is that why on the LFA's engine cover it says handmade by Lexus.
Also you do realise Toyota own a % of Yamaha don't you and the only input they had was in head design of which was in conjunction to Toyota's spec.
Looks like tuned for safe unsteer. Unique sports car
This lap time is indeed impressive. Viper ACR lapped I believe 7min 12sec. The big difference between the LFA Nurburgring (here) and the normal LFA is 10 more hp, additional carbon spliters for downforce and an fixed spoiler as well as lighter alloy wheels. The original LFA did it in 7min 38sec. Kind of being bias here, but the LFA, ACR, and 911 GT2 all have fixed spoilers, oppose to the ZR1. My point here is, what if an ZR1/Z06, Enzo had an fixed spoiler? Just a thought.
The 7:38 lap was not done by a professional driver. To put it into context, a GTR did 7:44 on the same test.
@ssj04 that being said, i am a huge JDM fan and would usually chose an LFA over a ZR1.. but the ZR1 deserves lots of credit, along with the amazing LFA, which gives me the chills every time i hear it..
sounds like a steady going moped at any speed
If someone we're generous enough to lend its unit to redo the lap record run, with Semi-Slicks and better driver with good weather, it could dip below to a 6 minute lap.
Someone have to do it
I finally do this in Gran Turismo 7 and even beat this time! Although it is just a game that is simulating new tire technology from about 2021.
@AlMurgab RIGHT. First off porsche needs to CONFIRM the 7:18 laptime with a video before they even start trying. Second Porsche is already using the best tire which is the michelin sport cups. this lfa destroyed the porsche's claimed laptime with the best tire. if the lfa ne had these tires a 7:0X laptime wouldn't even be a surprise.
This run is done with street tires. LFA is the fastest car that turned Nurbugring with street tires.