I drive a GTI, and Raikkonen only drives a regular Polo. Can I easily beat him in a lap in Nürburgring?

Let me start with the conclusion: Under normal circumstances, there is no possibility at all. What is a normal situation, except for the meaningless situations such as I fell asleep, the car broke down, or ran out of gas.

Let me just say one thing, you can understand it by yourself: it is difficult for ordinary people to drive to the limit of ordinary cars, there are psychological reasons and physiological reasons. Not to mention constantly putting the car at its limit (let’s not talk about the endurance of the car, because the process of adaptation and familiarity with the car by professional drivers is far beyond that of ordinary people). As for the GTI you mentioned, it's even harder for you to drive it to its limit, because its limit is higher than that of an ordinary car. The track is not about slamming the accelerator. It tests the driver's judgment of braking points and routing. With these two points alone, ordinary people who have never driven on a track will have basically zero experience. Not to mention tire grip, throttle segmentation, and positioning. . .

Don’t use your “hobbies” to challenge other people’s jobs.

With the current level of automobile technology, the gap between cars is far from enough to make up for the gap in driver level.

Why would anyone ask this question? You are too confident, right? With a limited edition club with eight stars and eight arrows, can you beat Ding Junhui with a club club?

Another case of challenging other people’s jobs with interest. The conclusion is put here first, without any chance.

Writer and racing driver Han Han actually has a very insightful summary of the subject's mentality. If you are interested, you can find the original text of "I also knew nothing about that kind of power". In Han Han's article, he detailed the story of how he and a group of outstanding amateur football players were beaten up by primary school students.

As a professional driver, Han Han also kindly reminded the folk car gods at the end of the article that it is impossible to compete with a professional driver like him, let alone the world's top driver like Raikkonen. Don't have any doubt, any F1 driver is the best driver in the world. Even if you give him a truck, he may be the best truck driver in the world.

Now let’s return to the topic. The subject of the question is still a bit cautious. He drives the signature small steel cannon GTI, and at the same time, he only gave Raikkonen a beggar's version of POLO. In terms of car performance, the GTI is definitely far superior to the latter. If it is in straight-line racing, I believe that the subject can really beat Raikkonen in terms of 0-100 acceleration.

But the questioner inexplicably chose the New York Speedway. Is there some misunderstanding about the Nürburgring? Known as the Green Hell, the Nürburgring circuit is recognized as a very difficult track. The 20.83-kilometer track winds on the Eifel plateau. As the mountains rise and fall, the vertical drop of the road is as high as 300 meters, and there are as many as 177 bends. road.

At the end of this lap, regardless of whether you can beat Raikkonen, if you go faster and use more accelerator, the African brothers may appear playing music and dancing.

Raikkonen drives Polo, it’s useless for you to drive Ferrari or F1. Non-professional drivers can only drive GTI and can only drive to 50-60% of the limit. Supercars and racing cars can only be driven to the limit. One or two percent. For an ordinary person who has no racing training, there is not much difference between driving a GTI and a GTR. Both of them have to run for more than 12 minutes. The entire race is 20.8km. If you finish the race in 12.5 minutes, your average speed will be over 100 and you will go through 172 corners, which is very difficult for amateurs to do. No matter how bad Polo is, it will be easy for professional players to slowly start running at an average speed of 120, which will only take about 10 minutes.

This gap is too big. Professional players can drive to the limit of 100 Polo, or even drive beyond the limit. No matter what car an amateur driver drives, it is far from being able to achieve this effect.

As long as you have more than five years of driving experience, practice at the Nürburgring for at least a week, memorize the route and approximate braking points, and be able to finish the whole race safely. 99 can beat Raikkonen, and the total length of the Nürburgring is 20 Over many kilometers and more than 170 corners, the Golf GTI accelerates in 6.9 seconds and brakes 37 meters. The 19-model 1.5L Polo accelerates in more than 12 seconds and brakes more than 41 meters. The height difference in New York is 300 meters. With the power of the Polo, it can take Lecco uphill. Ning is driving me crazy, and after 100 turns, the Polo's brakes are severely attenuated by heat, and they are probably almost useless

I think there is no chance.

Han Han once wrote an article "I also knew nothing about that kind of power". I suggest you read it, maybe you will understand why I said there is no chance.

Around 2006, a media company held a driving training camp. Those who came to participate were all private car owners. Basically, they had several years of driving experience, and some had even longer. One of the training contents is to accelerate to 100 kilometers on a straight road and then brake suddenly. Unexpectedly, two-thirds of the forty or fifty participants present failed to complete such a simple action.

A colleague who was present that day said that on his way home, he suddenly felt scared - he was afraid that some unreliable driver would hit him head-on.

In the automotive media, most people pay great attention to horsepower, handling, etc. One day, I forget the reason, I got into an argument with a colleague (Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Department). In order to make him understand, I issued a challenge - I drive a Xiali or Alto, you choose a car, and we go around the Second Ring Road The road goes around in a circle, provided that it does not violate traffic laws, to see who wins.

Fortunately, he was somewhat self-aware and did not accept the challenge.

It's impossible to win. Unless you use a very safe speed, you will definitely be knocked over halfway. Or you can practice first until you are completely familiar with the track and can perform 90% of the GTI's performance. Raikkonen can normally perform 100% of the Polo's performance. If you are not familiar with the track, take a look at the New York overturns in my video and you will know what will happen to you.

Is the gap between you and Raikkonen much larger than the gap between GTI and Polo, so you can't win? Lap speed has high requirements for professionalism and experience, and it also has high requirements for cars, including the overall structure of the model, the tires of the model, and the power level of the model. However, Raikkonen is a professional driver and has enough professionalism. Because of their high quality and sufficient experience, for ordinary people, even if they drive a Golf GTI and Raikkonen drives a Volkswagen Polo, it is basically difficult to win. The main reasons are as follows.

First: Drift

First of all, not everyone can drift, but professional racers will definitely drift. They can also achieve very good results by using the relatively low-end manual transmission Volkswagen Polo. Smooth drifting is still very important when running lap times. It can save distance and time, but for ordinary people, even if they drive a professional racing car, they cannot complete drifting, so this will make a big difference.

Second: Curves

In addition, there are a lot of curves in the lap. Although the Golf GTI has strong straight-line acceleration, it is difficult for ordinary people to enter corners. Instead of slowing down when cornering, the speed will be greatly reduced and then accelerated after the corner. However, for professional racing drivers, the speed does not drop much when cornering, so during the corner, the racing driver will Demonstrate very professional qualities and win lap times at the same time

Third: Psychological quality

Racing is a game for the brave. It requires strong psychological quality to support the entire game. The vehicle is driving at high speed In the middle, accidents are easy to occur. If the psychological quality is very low, it is difficult to drive a vehicle at very high speed, so the psychological quality is the most basic requirement for a racing driver.

Summary: As a professional racing driver, Raikkonen is very different from ordinary people. Professional racing drivers have professional qualities and sufficient experience, which can completely make up for the lack of power in the car.