You must know Daniel Abt as a member of the Abt family behind generations of tuned Audis. You can also meet him as a Formula E driver, a former driver of the Audi team of that family. You might even know him as the guy who got fired from that team for cheating on a race once, before returning with a different team later that season. On top of all that, Daniel Abt is now the type of presence on YouTube that takes exceptional cars to an airfield, does drag racing and records all his times for future comparisons.
In his second drag race video in this series, the comparison is between a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ and a Porsche 911 GT2 RS. Both represent the definitive evolution of an entire generation of leading cars from one of Volkswagen’s most prestigious and important performance brands. Both put more than 700 horsepower on the ground. Both had a record of Nurburgring in their name at one point. And yet, they share almost nothing else.
The 911 GT2 RS is, of course, with a rear engine. Although based on the Turbo S with four-wheel drive, it sacrifices it for rear-wheel drive in an attempt at lightness with a laser focus. It all comes down to creating the fastest 911 ever, a perfect milestone for the 991 generation of the car since it left. The SVJ, in turn, is a radical approach to the Aventador that combines Lamborghini’s now standard four-wheel drive with 770 horsepower in a track-focused package that abandons the company’s long-standing focus on road presence in favor of excellence.
On paper, they match each other better on a track than in a drag race. After all, the Lamborghini has two more driving wheels and 70 more horsepower. In practice, as Abt and another driver discovered, the Porsche more than remains.
After a failed start, the Lamborghini jumped into an early lead with cold tires. Porsche reached it in the end, however, to make a surprisingly close race. Abt, driving the Porsche, felt that the Porsche could have been more competitive with heated tires, so he warmed them up and tried again. This time, the two cars had similar starts before the GT2 RS and its advanced PDK transmission reached second gear, at which point Abt and Porsche pulled away, never looking back.
Both cars recorded a 1/4 mile elapsed time in mid-ten seconds on an untreated surface. For comparison, Abt’s previous drag runs on the same surface put the current Panamera 4S E-Hybrid in 11 seconds. The Porsche may have won the day, but none of the track monsters over 700 hp could be considered less than incredibly fast.
Via Motor1.
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