Just watched. Petes shifts are good. I wouldn’t say they’re adding much over tsivas. Give yourself some credit T!
Anyway hugely awesome shifts vs good shifts is maybe half a car length. Nothing to worry about. At the dragstrip it’s maybe a tenth.
S8 driver here…
I was expecting the car to fair a bit better than it did, although it has ~900 miles and I haven’t quite got a feel for it yet.
A couple things I noticed:
-8 speed tranny is a bit awkward, doesn’t seem to shift as quickly as you’d expect… hard to find the right gear for a roll, all of them are short
-car is explosive from a dig, launch control on this car involves brake torque-ing and letting her rip… when I nailed a launch, everyone was playing catch up
-she doesn’t seem to breathe well up top
the M5 is pretty wicked, the few times I launched well I’d jump ahead by 1-2 cars, till about 80mph when I’d get reeled in and walked… easy bus length by 140
^ Welcome.
I bet you do a bit better by around 4K to 5K miles. In addition once you get more familair with the trans/shift points etc you will probably do better as well.
I’m sure Audi has all sorts of nanny controls holding you back in stock form. Probably more so than the M5 in stock form since your model is essentially the flagship luxo model vs. the M5 being the middle man instead of the 7 series platform.
During the roll races does the ecu or tcu prevent you from brake boosting?
Pbox somehow is out of commission. I think it is the power cord. Pissed we couldn’t get S8 time. But it allows for a ton of videos. Lol.
And I don’t have to sit and crunch data which is refreshing for a change.
More videos next week. 
Anyone know how to blur out plates on a video?
^^whatever video hosting site (i.e. photobucket) you use should have editing software to blur the license plate number.
Just so happens to be on photobucket, I’ll go take a look. Thanks bear
what’s the blurring for? If it’s police, I wouldn’t blur it on the pbox site. If subpoenaed the site will hand over the original.
Blur it on your computer.
Turns out its so bad I dont think I have to.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/2004turbo/th_20130311_234909_zpseb50b9f8.jpg
edit good to know saki, if anyone thinks I should try again lmk and I’ll remove and rehost.
Lol. QFT.
Police… If you’re so concerned about the police I’d recommend you don’t post the pic at all blurred plate or not.
That’s a nice video you found on the Internet, those mexicans don’t explain their videos, what kind of car do you thinnk the camera is in stage 2 S4? Does that look like a C63 to you or a BMW? What’s up with the 3rd car it seems to be faster than the other cars.
Hard to tell from that crappy mexican video. new s8, new m5, and a revo dsg with intake exhaust if I have to guess. S8 and m5 both jumped. M5 didn’t appear to catch up (tons of traction issues I would guess) until the race was pretty much over. S8 and the revo car are nearly equally fast assuming both leave at the same time. i would say the S8 wins but about a car from a dig.
Just some speculation of course
I would disagree with you but what do I know the video is pretty dark. Surprising that BMW or Mercedes doesn’t catch up, understandable though my buddie has a 550i and that thing burns out for days and has traction issues in the cold and lots of traction issues in the rain.
disagree with what part?
Haha I disagree on what kind of cars are in he video but that’s just my opinion, I can’t really really tell what kind of cars they at so ill take your word for it.
I think that he was filming, so I would be inclined to take his word for it.
p.s. karma bump for apexit it for posting a fun video. Says you’ve only posted 44 times here? That sound right?
If the dude who took the gopros will edit them in timely fashion… you will get a shitload of other videos in HD.
it does sound right. I don’t stray from this section too often and it moves a little slow although its picking up. I don’t have much input on other generations so I mainly lurk.
o ok I though this was a random video that he came across of some cars racing south of the border.