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The German magazine sport auto publishes its "Supertest" of cars, in which the lap time (usually driven by editor-in-chief Horst von Saurma) at the Nordschleife is the most discussed result. The magazine also runs a challenge for the fastest lap time driven with a car that is road legal and registered in Germany. The road legality rule also ...
Road & Track magazine reported Heidfeld's lap was a 5:57 or 5:58 (for the Nordschleife only), [215] however their times were generated by measuring the speed in some corners, and then calculating a lap time, and not timing a full lap. Heidfeld has since expressed his desire to repeat the experience with less restriction, as well as for a ...
This event saw the fastest ever timed lap of the Nordschleife when German driver Stefan Bellof lapped his Rothmans Porsche in 6:11.13 during practice, and an average of over 200 km/h. Bellof also set the race lap record during that race lapping in 6:25.91.
Yet the car improved its lap time by about 3.5 percent. Video of the lap (which you can see above)shows the car topped out at 302 kph (187.6 mph), down the main straight.
The Mercedes-Benz AMG One hypercar set a new lap record for production cars on the Nüburgring-Nordschleife. Maro Engel piloted the hypercar to blisteringly fast time of 6:35.183, following the ...
That time makes the 815-hp Mustang the first American-made production car to lap the 'Ring in under seven minutes. Despite the accomplishment, Ford believes the GTD is capable of an even faster ...
Second place was taken by another GT2-spec car, the #1 factory BMW M3 GT which had won in 2010. Five GT3 cars of Audi and Mercedes followed. The SP8/GT2-class #2 Ferrari had run into early problems, but set the fastest race lap in the final hours, finishing 8th and James Glickenhaus’ P4/5 Competizione finished 39th, second in the E1-XP2.
Lap times were not comparable to the previous year's because of the usage of the slower Veedol Chicane. [17] Lieb's No. 2 Porsche led the 90-minute period with a fastest lap time at 1 minute and 41.703 seconds, nearly a twentieth of a second faster than teammate Brendon Hartley in the first Porsche. LMP2 was led by Brundle in the No. 26 Manor ...