Tag: Nürburgring

Porsche works race driver Kévin Estre set a lap time in 6:56.4 minutes with the 520-hp GT3 RS. The Frenchman’s lap time was 24 seconds faster than the best time achieved with the previous GT3 RS model. Porsche development driver Lars Kern was sharing driving duties with Estre. Fo...

Nürburgring, qualifying for the German Grand Prix, August 3, 1962. The day on which Dan Gurney writes his own legend is a Friday. Gurney’s pole-winning lap for the German Grand Prix—8:47.20—is an astonishing eight seconds faster than that of the previous year. A milestone, acc...

Since 1927, the Nürburgring in the Eifel Mountains of western Germany has attracted the imagination of fans, drivers, teams, and manufacturers. It has also demanded their respect. When The Speed Journal was making plans for a European adventure, the Nürburgring was a mandatory st...

Porsche set a new record for road-approved sports cars on the 20.6-kilometre Nürburgring Nordschleife in the Porsche 911 GT2 RS on September 20. The record time of 6 minutes and 47.3 seconds was achieved in the presence of a notary and surpassed even Porsche’s own expectations. ...

At the VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring, the new Mercedes-AMG GT4 will complete its first racing laps of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. This weekend’s fifth round of the clubsport race series (18/19 August) will see two AMG GT4 on the grid, run by Mercedes-AMG Testteam Uw...

The 2018 ZL1 1LE has conquered the Green Hell in a new video from Chevrolet, lapping the Nürburgring’s 12.9-mile (20.8 km) Nordschleife (“north loop”) in only 7:16.04, making it the fastest Camaro to ever lap the famed German track. The ZL1 1LE’s time is quick enough to place ...

In June 2016, the McLaren P1 LM was launched at Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it became the fastest road car to tackle the Goodwood Hill. Over the past eleven months, as the five P1 LM production cars have been built, the identical prototype XP1LM road car has been testing...

The new Porsche 911 GT3 has celebrated its first day on the Nürburgring with a lap time of 7 minutes, 12.7 seconds for the legendary Nordschleife. The road-approved 911, with specifications similar to its motorsport counterpart, beat the time set by the previous model by 12.3 sec...