Unbelievable acceleration - New Porsche 997 Turbo doing 0-60 in 3.08s!

New Porsche 997 Turbo at the world press launch in Estoril, Portugal accelerating from 0-200km/h. In car video and data provided by the new Racelogic Video VBOX Lite (http://www.videovbox.co.uk) which was the official video and timing equipment supplied by Porsche, they were using 8 in total. This was the PDK version with the Sports Chrono Package and is demonstrating the superb launch control facility. We did 7 such launch control starts, one after the other, and they were all timed at 3.21s, 3.24s, 3.20s, 3.27s etc. Very repeatable, and seemingly bomb-proof! This was the cabrio version which is a bit heavier than the coupe.

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• Porsche turbo acceleration
• launch control
• video vbox
• video overlay
• vbox
• racelogic
• video logger

[DamianWood]

The lights flicker because they're LED and that's how they appear on camera.

[jools360]

Yes, they are LED lights, which are switched on and off very fast to vary the brightness. This will 'alias' with the shutter speed of the video camera, and sometimes it catches them on, and sometimes off. Persistence of vision means that humans perceive them as on all the time, but less bright. At night, look at these kinds of lights and move your eyes around rapidly, you will see that it leaves behind a series of dots as the leds flash on and off.

[zadeh79]

@xenomorphelv426 That's awesome the way the car just slings off. 

[xenomorphelv426]

@zadeh79 the gearbox only activate when the brakes are released

[ricomcdify]

@zadeh79 It's 'Launch Control' function in all Porsche's with Sport Chrono package.

[zadeh79]

How can he hold the car steady with the Brake, while he's applying full throttle?

[majom89]

nice :)

[DutchNoScOp3R]

Convertible 997 Turbo 3.2 Hardtop 997 Turbo 3.0

997 Turbo S Hardtop 2.8

[AngryOrso]

This vs 2012 nissan GTR.

[flauretta]

i've seen the turbo-S do 0-60mph in 2.7 and run the quarter in 10.70@130....wow...

[ciottone74]

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