2017 Porsche 911 Turbo S Hot Lap! - 2017 Best Driver's Car Contender - video Dailymotion

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Pro driver Randy Pobst hot laps the 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo S around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Motor Trend's 2017 Best Driver's Car.

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00:00 (engine revving)

00:02 Porsche released the 991.2 version

00:10 of their iconic turbo a little while back,

00:13 but you'd be forgiven for not noticing.

00:15 Sure, horsepower was up by 20 to 580 for the S version,

00:19 but beyond that, the big news

00:20 was an upgraded navigation system.

00:22 (horn honking)

00:23 Then we took one to the test track and it did a wheelie.

00:26 No, really.

00:27 The new Turbo S launches with such ferocity

00:30 that the front wheels came up off the ground.

00:33 It then managed to run the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds,

00:37 same as the Bugatti Veyron.

00:38 So yeah, it's great at drag racing,

00:40 but how will it do on a racetrack?

00:42 (upbeat music)

00:45 (engine revving)

00:49 (yells)

00:53 (engine revving)

00:56 Yeah!

01:06 Balance feeling really, really great so far.

01:13 (engine revving)

01:16 (engine revving)

01:18 Dick! (laughs)

01:37 (engine revving)

01:40 (yells)

01:45 I love the brake light.

01:51 See how we do here in corkscrew.

01:53 Oh yeah, beautiful.

01:54 (engine revving)

01:57 Record speed over the corkscrew, I can just feel it.

02:01 (engine revving)

02:07 This thing just does it for me.

02:09 (engine revving)

02:12 So easy to come off that hairpin.

02:22 So easy.

02:23 No, I've changed my mind, I don't wanna get out.

02:30 I'm just so utterly blown away by the capability

02:34 of the newest version of the 911 Turbo S.

02:37 There's a meme, there's a theme out in the world,

02:40 Porsche land, that the 911 Turbo is so good,

02:43 it's maybe a little bit boring.

02:45 Boring in its extreme capability.

02:49 Incredibly rewarding to drive,

02:53 and the braking impressed the living daylights out of me.

02:57 The amount of braking Gs and force it will generate,

03:02 the nice firm pedal without much travel that never changes,

03:05 and a normal streetable car.

03:08 I mean, you can take this to the coast for the weekend

03:10 or down to 7-Eleven to get your pint of half and half.

03:14 (engine revving)

03:16 I was aggressive.

03:18 I was driving that car hard, 'cause I could.

03:21 It's like a ball player with soft hands.

03:24 When you see a good football receiver

03:26 and he catches a football

03:27 and the way it just lands in his hands,

03:29 that's how this car lands in a corner.

03:31 It lands in soft in the corner and just rips,

03:34 just holds, so you can drive it hard, hard.

03:38 This car is just incredibly capable.

03:42 It's an amazing accomplishment in today's sports car world.

03:45 Whoa, the Turbo S can go around corners too.

03:49 It might actually have been

03:50 Randy's favorite car on the track.

03:52 Why?

03:53 Because the Turbo S is not only blindingly quick,

03:55 but it doesn't put a foot wrong.

03:57 There just isn't any bad behavior.

03:59 It goes like stink.

04:01 One minute 33.21 seconds, as a matter of fact,

04:04 is just two tenths of a second

04:06 off the much more track-focused AMG GT-R.

04:09 You may think of the new Turbo S as weaponized speed,

04:12 effortless weaponized speed at that,

04:14 which is why it's in third place.

04:16 See, the judges felt that perhaps the big orange Porsche

04:19 was just too easy to drive.

04:21 It wasn't rewarding enough,

04:22 more of a show-off than a pure driver's car.

04:25 Also, there were two cars that we liked better.

04:27 (car engine revving)

04:30 (car engine revving)

04:34 (car engine revving)

04:37 (car engine revving)

04:40 (explosion)

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