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27/October/2009
-Ultima
claims Top Gear lap record
Ultima
GTR720
Small British car company Ultima is claiming to
have beaten Top Gears test track lap record, without the shows
knowledge.
Apparently Ultima Sports made numerous request to
Top Gear big wigs, to let them challenge the current record, but
through years of frustration and no reply Ultima decided to conduct
their own test.
So in a privately conducted but independently
verified test, the Ultima GTR720, powered by a 537kW Chevrolet V8, set
a time of 1min 9.9sec around the Dunsfold aerodrome circuit, beating
the 1min 10.7sec time set by Michael Schumacher in his million pound
track only FXX.
Some modifications were made to the car, but Ultima claims that the car
was still street legal unlike the Ferrari FXX which was riding on track
slicks.
There has been no report on how many attempts
Ultima made to achieve that time. And no, the Stig was not driving.
Sports car maker Ultima is claiming to have
beaten the Top Gear track record
