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Octane Supercar Events is a new product from The Supercar Club. At our track days you can ride in or drive one of our European Supercars at racetracks around Australia.
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Nissan defends legitimacy of GT-R supercar’s record lap time against suspicions raised by rival Porsche.
Nissan has hit back at suspicions raised by Porsche this week that the record Nurburgring lap time set by the GT-R supercar was achieved in anything other than a standard showroom-specification car.
The matter has reached top brass at Nissan, with its European spokesman at the Paris motor show today confirming the matter has gone ”quite high” up in the company.
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Porsche has accused Nissan of cheating in the GT-R’s record bid at the Nurburgring racetrack.
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Porsche has just run its own back-to-back tests with the Japanese company’s GT-R supercar and says it could not get within 25 seconds of Nissan’s claimed record time of seven minutes 29 seconds in April.
It also found its 911 Turbo and GT2 were both quicker than the GT-R.
“This wonder car with 7:29 could not have been a regular series production car,” says August Achleitner, the 911 product chief for Porsche, speaking to the CARSguide at the Australian press preview of the latest 911 Cabrio.
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2008 Winner Steven Jones dedicates his win…
What a fitting end to Father’s Day with 2008 QUIT Targa West’s Competition Modern winner, Steven Jones, dedicating his win to his late father Warren Jones.
“Thank my dad for everything he did for me, my old man is the reason I wanted this for so long. He passed away when I was 17 and I’ve done this for him, I’ve given him what he wanted!”
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