evo Magazine Mclaren MP4-12C track test

How quick is the new McLaren MP4-12C twin-turbo supercar on track? See how fast it laps the Bedford Autodrome West Circuit at the hand of evo Magazine. Quicker than a Ferrari 458 Italia?

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[StreetKingEvolution]

@steflotti105 Cause your a professional race car driver eh? Jesus, the arguments just don't end do they?!

[rxs10000]

I guess one must admire its capabilities (and I say that with reserve as I can only base this on what the motoring press have to say) but this car still leaves me cold.

[traind]

@MrBigolnuts Roger Green is a very talented test driver. In a recent EVO he ran laps of a BTCC car and a regular Honda with the current BTCC champion. In the race car, the racing driver (Matt Neal) was 1.3 seconds per lap faster. In the street legal car, Roger Green (the EVO tester) was 1.6 seconds per lap faster than Neal on the EVO test circuit.

[MrRyanccm]

@StreetKingEvolution The brake system on the back wheels is not easy to handle, especially when drivers try to make a drift on it. They need a better and patient driver than him.

[Buttnut105]

This thing's a lot snappier than the 458; it's definitely more systems than chassis

[mukers]

@gabymunteanu You're talking about honesty? Chris harris was banned from driving ferarris for releasing the fact that they specifically tune all their cars for the track its going to be tested on prior to the test drive. The 458s lap times are after it has been tuned specifically for that track. Ferarri lap times are better than the production car is capable of.

[MrBigolnuts]

@badman2504 Correct, I read an article in the latest EVO mag by Harry Metcalfe and he had written to Mclaren saying all the adjustments the car required to make it more "useable", because the car has been set up too much like an F1 car. They responded by making those adjustments. But I still think in a review like this, fastest track time they should be using a professional racing driver.....like on Top Gear....on the Fifth Gear review they couldn't turn off the traction control.

[badman2504]

@MrBigolnuts all down to driving style, and the track, the top gear circuit is a power circuit, where acceleration and top end shove is important, whereas the bedford autodrome is different, more technical, I'm no race driver, but I like track days, and jumping out of an Impreza WRX STI 320R saloon into the equivalent Evo X (the FQ 330) there are big differences for broadly similar cars, same with the MP4 and the 458 similar size, weight, all down to driving style and how you suit each car

[gabymunteanu]

This is not the car that will beat the ferrari.They tried and they failed and ferrari wins again, and pls don"t get drunk with the top gear lap time they have favorit the British cars and they dont have an honest opinion that way you guys love the top gear.LOOK AT fift gear, car magazine ..... ef you want to hear an honest opinion.If you want to hear some bolshet and feel good look at top gear:)

[MrBigolnuts]

@MrsShadowBroker your totally right, the Top Gear test is the only proper track test I have seen so far........The Evo reviewer has it wriggling all over the track as if the car is fighting itself and when you watch the Stig drive it theres not a shake the whole lap..........How can Evo get a Ferrari 1.19 to a Mclaren 1.20 and Top Gear gets a Ferrari 1.19 to a Mclaren 1.16 ??? Obiously the Evo reviewer is an imbecile.

[MrsShadowBroker]

Yet another reviewer who doesn't know how to turn everything off. Fifth gear were the worst.

[engared]

@Culps83 I disagree, Top Gear's powerboard have cars driven by different drivers on different days, we do not even know if the track configuration changes from show to show. The Gumpert's massive downforce would slow it down on a very high speed track such as the Nurburgring (they hit huge speeds on very long straights there) based on that logic. So the timing made by the MC on Top gear makes no sense at all. The Enzo Ferrari should be a much faster car than the time it did on the track.