2015 Porsche 918 Spyder First Test
Supercar Hits 60 In 2.4 Seconds. But, Unpredictable Brakes?
Lap one -- bam! -- is a 1:23.54, knocking 2.2 seconds off the record. Randy pulls in. It's still a complicated car to lap, but everybody's smiling now. "I'm getting the hang of it," he begins. "You have to get the lap time done while the batteries are up. And you don't attack the brakes -- you squeeze into them. The hybrid system just requires a new kind of driver involvement and awareness."
He continues: "In the 120-mph Turn 8, it's stable and impressively balanced; actually, I'd say its performance is really far more accessible than its older brother the Carrera GT." Later, at our regular test venue at California Speedway, the car's AWD grip and zero-rpm electric torque rail-gunned it to 60 mph in an insane 2.4 seconds (a record). It also halted from 60 in a teensy 94 feet, pulled 1.12 g while cornering, and blitzed to another record around our figure-eight course, where both Carlos Lago and I sensed what Randy meant about the brakes' unpredictability.
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