2016 Car and Driver Lightning Lap Results Leaked
According to GVIrish on Reddit, the lap times of Car and Driver magazine’s Lightning Lap around the Virginia International Raceway have been leaked for this year and the results are rather surprising.
Here’s a behind the scenes video to show you a glimpse of what the lightning lap is all about:
For a second straight year, an American car tops a list of world class super cars and to add a cherry to the top, it also produced the second fastest time every in the nine year history of this lightning lap.
This year’s winner is the Dodger Viper ACR, which came 1.1s away from tying the 2015 Porsche 918 Sypder, which we all can agree, is in a totally different class of super car for this type of competition. Here’s Chris Harris taking out the Viper out for a test run:
Check out the results below and let us know what you think:
And here are the Top Times from the Car & Driver all time rankings:
| RANK | CAR | TIME |
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1
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2015 Porsche 918 Spyder
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2:43.1
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2
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2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
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2:44.6
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3
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2015 McLaren 650S Spider
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2:45.8
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4
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2009 Mosler MT900S
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2:45.9
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5
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2015 Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4
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2:47.5
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6
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2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR coupe
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2:48.6
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7
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2015 Nissan GT-R NISMO
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2:49.4
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8
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2012 Mosler Photon
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2:49.8
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9
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2014 SRT Viper TA
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2:49.9
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10
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2012 Ferrari 458 Italia
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2:49.9
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