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2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Tears Up VIR With C/D: Video

Oh boy, do we have a tasty treat for you this afternoon: a video of the Porsche 918 Spyder lapping the track at Virginia International Raceway to get a Lightning Lap time in the hands of Car and Driver‘s KC Colwell.

The 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder achieves a lap time of 2 minutes, 43.1 seconds around the “American Nürburgring,” making it the fastest production car ever tested for Car and Driver‘s Lightning Lap feature. By almost a three second margin. Only the 2009 Mosler MT900S comes close, at 2 minutes, 45.9 seconds.

As far as driving journalists go, KC Colwell is about as competent as they come; he’s consistently the driver trusted with the fastest, highest horsepower cars at Car and Driver‘s annual Lightning Lap. Yet even he has to quickly employ countersteer at a few key points on the track to keep the combined 887 horsepower of the Porsche 918 Spyder in-check. But the AWD system in the car means that he can jump on the throttle much sooner through the corner, maintaining consistently mind-blowing exit speeds.

There does seem to be a lot of audible tire squealing throughout most of the corners, which is either a symptom of microphone placement and lack of sound-deadening during recording, or perhaps indicative that there is another one or two seconds still to be had from the Porsche 918 Spyder.

Aaron Birch is an automotive enthusiast and writer/filmmaker from Detroit, MI. As a rule, he only buys cars older than himself.

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