Ferrari 488 Pista Laps The High Gear Observe In A File 1:12.7

There’s a new manufacturing automobile lap report at High Gear’s official take a look at observe and it’s held by the Ferrari 488 Pista.

Within the first episode of season 27, The Stig was capable of lap the Dunsfold Aerodrome in a blistering 1:12.7 with Ferrari’s newest and best mid-engined V8 supercar.

To place that point into perspective, it’s roughly half a second faster than the 991-generation Porsche 911 GT2 RS across the circuit and a full second faster than the McLaren 675LT. Nonetheless, what we discover much more wonderful is simply how briskly the 488 Pista is in comparison with a number of the automobiles examined on High Gear roughly a decade in the past.

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In 2007, the manufacturing automobile lap report was held by the insane Ascari A10 and never lengthy after, the Gumpert Apollo Sport. These two automobiles could have had license plates however they have been just about full-blown unique observe automobiles and are actually roughly 5 seconds slower than a Ferrari 488 Pista. The Ferrari can be about 1.5-seconds sooner across the observe than a Ferrari LaFerrari pushed by Fifth Gear’s Jason Plato.

Lap time record by way of Wikipedia

A key cause for why the 488 Pista is so quick is its powertrain. The supercar is outfitted with the twin-turbocharged V8 engine of the 488 Problem racer automobile and delivers 711 hp and 568 lb-ft (770 Nm) of torque. The Pista additionally weighs 90 kg (200 lbs) lower than the ‘common’ 488 GTB and produces 20 per cent extra downforce. It might attain 100 km/h (62 mph) in simply 2.85 seconds, 200 km/h (124 mph) in 7.6 seconds and a prime velocity exceeding 340 km/h (211 mph).