A Porsche 911 GT2 RS Bodied the Nurburgring record

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Porsche's 6:47.3 lap is not only the fastest 911 Nürburgring lap ever, it's a record for road-legal sports cars — period.

The interesting thing is that Porsche aimed for a relatively relaxed 7min 5sec time. As Porsche's Frank-Steffen Walliser says, "At the start of the development process, we set ourselves a lap time target for the GT2 RS of less than 7 minutes and 5 seconds. The credit for beating this target by 17.7 seconds goes to our development engineers, mechanics and drivers, who demonstrated an exceptionally strong team performance. This result makes it official: The GT2 RS is not only the most powerful, but also the fastest 911 ever built."

And the record lap wasn't a fluke, as it was one in a series of seriously quick laps by Lars Kern and Nick Tandy. Porsche's track day resulted in the breaking of the Lamborghini Huracan Performante's existing 6:52.01 road legal sports car record on the first try, and that one was followed by five other laps under 6:50.

Porsche obliterates Nurburgring record with the new 911 GT2 RS
 
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