Fucking Germans! Is there anything that they can’t do right? Makes me want to dust all off my PS1 and fire up gran Turismo 2.

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Aren’t they the same?

That's an average speed of 146 mph!!!!

Source: wikipedia (68,346 feet distance) and a calculator

That IS an amazing car, but to be fair, Timo Bernhard broke the record, not the Porsche.

That whine when the boost is engaged...its like it's powering up for light speed. Looks like it too.

Pfft that's how I drive to get the groceries..

Can anyone explain the Boost bar there to me? That didn't look like turbo boost, as it was almost never up, but seemed to fire coming out of a corner.

Thing maxes out at 365mph apparently.

So my limited understanding is that it's a hybrid car (twin turbo 4 cyl and electric motor), and in braking, electrical energy is generated to use as boost coming out of the corner. It helps with power as there may be some turbo lag from the 4 cyl. I however could be completely wrong. Maybe @oritteropo knows for sure.

As far as I know you are pretty much spot on. The 919 was run in the LMP1 class with 8 megajoules of hybrid power and a turbo 4 cylinder petrol engine.

This evolution of the 919 has increased the power of both systems, by removing the fuel flow restrictions and increasing the output of the electric motors. The boost graphic is probably showing the deployment of the stored power from the lithium batteries, but it wasn't 100% clear to me (usually they will indicate when it is charging or discharging, and this didn't).

I didn't find a really good reference, but there is a bit on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_919_Hybrid

Probably km/h... ~227 mph.
Still fast as balls.

Yeah it actually topped out at 369 kph right at the end of boost on the main straight which is 227 mph.

Making a reliable car.

I'd like to see what this car would do with a 10 speed trasns....

That driver has balls of steel.

I've logged thousands of laps around Nurburgring in various PC racing simulators over the years, from rFactor to Assetto Corsa, and even if I turn on the arcade mode, I can't begin to touch this lap time. Amazing!!