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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 ...
Almost half a century after setting the pre-war lap records, the Mercedes-Benz W154 is being demonstrated in 1986 by Hermann Lang.. The track was inaugurated in 1927 with the Eifelrennen events for bikes and cars, taking place on the combined Nordschleife and Südschleife, with a length of 28.265 km (17.563 mi).
In November 2022, the AMG ONE set a lap time of 6:35.183 minutes around the Nürburgring Nordschleife 12.944 mile (20.832 km) course. Driven by Maro Engel, it became the fastest road-legal production car around the track, beating the previous record by over 13 seconds, held by the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. Engel revealed, the track was not ...
Ford has released video of the 2025 Mustang GTD's American production car record-setting lap of the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The car lapped the track in 6:57.685.
Dirk Müller piloted the Evija to a time of 6:24.047, and only the Volkswagen ID.R and Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo have lapped Germany's Green Hell quicker.
The 815-hp Mustang circled the famous racetrack in 6:57.685, and next year Ford is going back to try to go even faster.
Porsche decided to restart production to reproduce the lost cars. [18] In late September 2017, the 911 GT2 RS driven by Porsche test driver Lars Kern set a 6:47.3 minute lap time around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, averaging a speed of 184.11 km/h (114.40 mph). This made it the fastest production car lap time recorded on the track at the time.
Cars were equipped with intermediate tyres to start the session before switching to dry slick tyres when the track dried up. [22] Webber set the fastest timed lap at 1 minute and 41.002 seconds with twenty minutes of practice left, and was almost three-tenths of a second faster than Anthony Davidson in Toyota's No. 5 car. [23]