Nurburgring lap record beaten

[iceburns288]

For street legal cars, that is. A modified 996 GT2 smoked the Donkervoot somehow. Honestly, last year if someone told me that a 996 would beat that tiny Donkervoort around the Ring I would laugh! This sounds so unlikely, but it's still pretty amazing. The lap time was 7:15.63 minutes, which is an amazing lap.

A Porsche GT2 modified by the clever people at EDO Competition clocked a time of 7:15.63 on the 4th of August.

Engine: Watercooled 996 GT2 3.6l
Power: 612 Hp @ 6.790rpm
Torque: 785 Nm @ 4.300rpm

Acceleration:
0 - 100 km/h in about 3,5 s
0 - 200 km/h in about 9,5 s
0 - 300 km/h in about 22,5 s

www.edo-competition.net

VIDEO HERE

Pic of the car:

[rage2]

It's a race car that got some street plates .

Originally posted by Swedeboy
The GT2 which claimed the 7'15 lap is by no means street-legal although it has TuV. It was trailered to the Ring and was so low it wouldn't work on a normal road and has a race dashboard, seats, fire extinghuiser. For all intents and purposes it was a racecar which happened to have managed to obtain street papers. It might have been fast for a 'streetcar' record but seeing as it's similar spec to the Alzen car it's really not that fast a lap for a 'race car'.

Car can be found here: www.edo-competition.net. A video of a lap around the Ring in the same car can be found here: http://www.edo-competition.net/movie...eife_gt2rs.wmv
The driving standard is not really acceptable for Touristenfahrten.

The car and record attempt will be featured in the upcoming Sport Auto.

[iceburns288]

Not like the Donkervoort was really practical though

[nismodrifter]

pssh...I can beat that time in a 190EVO no problem

[GoChris]

what was the old time for a street car?

[MiG_Master]

That's it, I'm moving to Germany.

[RickDaTuner]

my guess is that with all the line changes he had to do to avoid traffic, he very easily could have had another 5-10sec off the lap time, man you can really hear that dog box, slappin the gears in place eh...

[Billet]

The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

[rage2]

Originally posted by Billet
The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

No they're not. Dumbass.

[iceburns288]

Originally posted by rage2
No they're not. Dumbass.

lol! Yeah anyways bikes have a ton less traction through corners and wouldn't be anywhere near a race car's time on a track like this.

BTW the Donkervoort's lap was a 7:18.

[kenny]

Originally posted by Billet
The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

The crazy sportbike riders are in the 6's, 6 Feet Under.

[TheBenzo]

Originally posted by rage2

No they're not. Dumbass.

Those cars are faster than bikes, acceleration, top speed.. the whole shabango.. Those cars own bikes in t3h corners too.

[rage2]

Bikes aren't suited for places like the ring. Lots of bumps, lots of long power straights (bikes aren't really much faster than cars over 200km/h), and zero run off. The lap record for a bike is like 7:50. Most riders are happy to break past the 9min barrier, and those are the guys that risk their lives. About 1 death a week there, mostly from the crazy bike dudes.

[Bones21]

Originally posted by Billet
The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

Do you even know where Nurburgring is?

[djayz]

damn that thing can corner fast

how safe is that to have traffic on the track when your trying to set a record going over 150km?

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by Billet
The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

You should be banned for this comment

[Chester]

Originally posted by Billet
The crazy sportbike riders down there are easily in the 6's

Originally posted by rage2

No they're not. Dumbass.

He obviously doesn't know how challenging/dangerous the ring is


That thing sounds like a jet

[Vagabond142]

Djayz: street legal cars can do a lap for 14 euros or something like that, or get a day pass for ~70 euros (may have changed since I talked to my buddy in England). Usually only happens on weekends. All other times car companies hire the track for car testing, or there is some kind of race going on, or some billionaire has hired the track as his private playground (Richard Branson reportedly does this) for a day.

[Redlyne_mr2]

It looks like its getting rough out there, might be time for some maintenance.

[DJ Lazy]

Thats crazy.. love watching fast laps around there...