09-11-2008, 03:37 PM
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This result wasn’t a big surprise. With its long straights and fast turns, Road America is perfect for the GT-R, which thrives on wide-open spaces.
It’s not as happy on more technical circuits, such as the layout at Carolina Motorsports Park, near Kershaw, South Carolina, or the busy but entertaining setup at the nearby BMW Performance Center, where the One Lap entourage became the first outside group to visit the course.
Besides its extraordinary speed and technical sophistication, the GTR’s salient dynamic trait is understeer. This makes it thoroughly predictable but unhandy in quick transitions and tight turns. Still, aside from the first run at Mid-America Motorplex, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, the GT-R turned in top-10 times at all the dry road circuits, finishing up with a top-four sprint in the final track event, at BeaveRun, near Pittsburgh.
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i disagree with this, entirely. perhaps it's the way i drive that suits the car, rather than the car suiting me, but i find the hint of understeer keeps the car more stable in transition. and the handling is the one issue about the car that i find most mesmerizing. i would imagine that the handling would be exemplified in tighter, more technical tracks. i guess my driving style is not the same as the author's. perhaps i should give a try at this one lap thing... i might do better than a 12.8 in the quarter...
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