They call her the Queen of the ‘Ring, and as cheesy as it sounds, it is completely true. Sabine Schmitz is the most famous Nurburgring expert ans has been for years.
While everybody is anticipating the arrival of the new SRT Viper, an old Viper ACR-X sets a new Nurburgring record. The car just went round the Green Hell in an amazing 7:03.058.
It’s become fashionable these days for new sports car to have the word ‘Nurburgring’ somewhere in their promotional materials. The Americans have become particularly obsessed with this German race track.
That little blur you see above is actually the 2013 Cadillac ATS in one of its test sessions at the fearsome Nurburgring. Cadillac apparently wants to come up with a proper BMW 3-Series rival because they’ve been camping at the ‘Ring from the early stages of developing the ATS.
Not officially, but McLaren MP4-12C in the hands of Sports Auto magazine’s Editor-in-Chief has posted a Nurburgring Lap time of 7 minutes 28 seconds. That is very fast, but not the best the car can do.
Another great review by EVO’s Chris Harris. This time he takes a Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition round the, well, the Nurburgring.
You can put this under the ‘another Caddy ATS teaser’ category. Apparently Cadillac ATS development team is spending a lot of time down at the Nurburgring fine-tuning their sporty mid-size sedan in preparation for 2013 launch.
Chevrolet first built up the tension by twitting about Camaro ZL1′s lap time at the Nurburgring, and then released an official video to prove it. The 580-hp muscle car did it in 7 minutes 41.27 seconds.
A few weeks ago news emerged that Dodge Viper ACR has gone round the Nurburgring in 7 minutes 12 seconds, beating Lexus LFA’s recent record of 7:14. Now SRT released official footage of the car’s record breaking run and confirmed the time.
Toyota Motorsport GmbH put its money where its mouth is, and set a blistering ‘EV’ lap record at Nurburgring Nordschleife. A few days ago they promised to smash the previous lap record of 9mins 1.338secs for electric cars.