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Originally Posted by sssssssss
 ) that's ok cut 7! you don't have to be as freaky as i am and actually remember all this stuff!  this is illness!
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Im not as bonkers as i thought...
The quickest ever recorded ever at LM was 254 mph by a WM pug, presumbly the mad V10 atmo pug.
However, how it managed to get up to that speed with the new chicane in place i dont know.
Or maybe its a pug of pre-atmo pre-chicane days. |
Yup that speed was in the pre-chicane days. It was in 1988 and it was not an official Peugeot, it was the WM P88 with a Turbo Peugeot ZNS4 3000 cc V6 engine. The car hit those 405 km/h (252 mph I think
) on the full Mulsanne Straight but only managed 3:34.650 time in qualifying, which in '88 meant it was only 22nd
. And its engine broke very early in the race... so not really the endurance of an official Peugeot engine
The highest top speed of a car that lasted until the end of the race (and in fact won it in 1989) was the almost 401 km/h (249 mph) of the Sauber Mercedes C9 - again, 1989. But on the Mulsanne chicanes track configuration, the highest speed was the Porsche 962 in 1993 hitting 366 km/h (227 mph). To be noted that the Nissan R90CK also hit 366 km/h in 1990 (when setting that great time of 3:27).