Following swiftly on from last week’s Ultima Sports story……the company have amazingly recorded yet another blistering statistic in their multiple world record holding Ultima GTR supercar. Driven by Ultima director, Richard Marlow, the GTR recorded a standing ¼ mile time of 9.9secs with a 143mph terminal speed at the FIA approved and verified Santa Pod Raceway. The GTR road car used for the run was the same factory standard production specification road car Ultima GTR720 demonstrator, which has recently smashed the 0-100mph-0-world record. It was fitted with a 720bhp Chevrolet V8 engine, from Ultima OE engine suppliers American Speed, a standard 5-speed Porsche G50 transmission and road tyres. The GTR720 was pitched against a standard 345bhp Corvette C5, which doubled as a camera car to help demonstrate the mind-boggling performance of the Ultima, compared to other recognised ‘fast road’ cars. The Santa Pod drag strip was utilised as it has the fully sanctioned FIA-approved timing equipment rather than the less than accurate timing methods used at some speed events. Richard Marlow commented, “We knew that the standard factory-spec car was more than capable of achieving a standing quarter mile time of this calibre, and it shows once again its performance superiority over other supercars. We performed several runs on the day, all of which were in the sub-10secs category, and the GTR has a great deal more attributes to it than that of performing standing ¼ mile drag runs, but nevertheless this is a historical and worldwide reputed statistic that we wanted to beat in order to demonstrate what our standard product can do. Clearly there is plenty more potential for the GTR on the drag strip if the runs had been carried out during a competitive event and if the car was optimised for such use, but that is not something we will be pursuing further. We are delighted that these times are significantly quicker than all other supercars”. Quite. And once congratulations to Ultima Sports for spanking the supercar crowd…
(It's a good job they didn't enter the Castrol Challenge, otherwise the MK's would be even further down the table......
) Phil
