Nissan wasn't able to best the Corvette ZR1's 7:26.4 Nurburgring lap time, but Godzilla did bring the hurt with a lap time of 7:26.7 run on April 23, 2009. Now we've now got in-car video proof.
Nissan's Chief test driver, Toshio Suzuki hopped behind the wheel of the revised 2010 GT-R in an attempt to shave an additional 3 seconds off the previous 7 minute 29 second lap time. He accomplished his goal — but in the grand scheme of things, who cares if he didn't beat the competition? [carscoop]