While the high-tech Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo was trying to set a new lap time record on the NĂźrburgringâs insanely long Nordschleife course, I couldnât help being distracted by the action happening on over on the grand prix track. Big, rowdy, diesel-belching race trucks were sliding around the curve at the end of theâŚ
It sounds unbelievable for any car to lap the 12.94-mile NĂźrburgring Nordschleife course in only 5:19.546. The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo went 51.58 seconds faster than the former overall lap record, with an average speed of 145.3 mph. Whatâs even weirder, though, is that the last record remained unbeaten for over 35âŚ
For the cynical among us, itâs easy to say that NĂźrburgring record attempts are dumb, arbitrary, unregulated and ultimately meaningless. I would argue that actually nothing matters because weâll all be dead eventually, and that very fast cars are good, so letâs all suspend our cynicism and gaze in awe at theâŚ
The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is the kind of delightful vehicular creation that happens when you let engineers run free without having to adhere to strict series regulations. It is ludicrously fast, and 919 driver Timo Bernhard just destroyed the Nordschelife track record with a time of time of 5:19.546ânearly an entireâŚ
The Toyota GT86 Cup is a brilliant race car kit which makes the best street car Iâve driven in years even more enjoyable on track. One team tweaked their GT86 Cup even further for NĂźrburgring domination, and it held its own against much more powerful cars at the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours. Bonus: they didnât even add aâŚ
Porsche was spotted today turning fast laps at the NĂźrburgring with their now-unrestricted 919 Hybrid Evo Le Mans prototype. Now that theyâre no longer running the car at Le Mans, the 919 is now attempting to dominate lap records across the worldâand letâs be honest, itâs about time they give us a âRing time. CouldâŚ
The NĂźrburgring 24 Hours was the most insane car party Iâve ever been to, but behind all the wild campgrounds, there was still a race going on. Manthey Racing driver Laurens Vanthoor set a new pole-winning lap record for the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours in the No. 911 Porsche 911 GT3 R, and hot dang, it is fast.
Weâve sat through half of a beautiful day and half of a very wet, very foggy day for the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours. Now we finally have a winner after an insane last-hour battle that happened after a long red flag for fog: the No. 912 Porsche 911 GT3 R of Manthey Racing.
Rain came last night to the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours and barely let up all morning. Itâs been extremely slippery out there, which gave us a lot of attrition. Only two cars are on the lead lap with just under an hour leftâa Mercedes-AMG GT3 and a Porsche 911 GT3 Râand oh man, theyâre at each othersâ throats.
Thereâs a siren at the end of the NĂźrburgring 24 Hoursâ pit lane that blares every time a car enters the pits. With 146 cars in the race and between four and six cars crammed in each garage, you hear this siren constantly. Pit lane at the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours race is a constant struggle not to get hit by anyoneâs car,âŚ
This yearâs NĂźrburgring 24 Hours was looking like an easy home race for Manthey Racing, with two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs in first and second place mere moments before. Their shopâs just down the road, man. Theyâll do fine! Sadly, their No. 911 Porsche driver Romain Dumas just crashed at Pflanzgarten with just under 14âŚ
Itâs Craiglistâs favorite phrase beyond âno lowballers:â âneeds fuel pump.â Unfortunately for the No. 40 Aston Martin Vantage V8, the first lap of the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours was a bit too true-to-Craigslist. A fuel pump problem brought their car to a halt at the first hairpin of the race.
Thereâs a new Porsche 911 GT3 R coming soon, but that doesnât mean the current car is a slouch. Three of those claimed the first, second and third starting positions at the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours today. Laurens Vanthoor claimed pole position for tomorrowâs day-long race with a lap time of 8:09.105 in the No. 911 MantheyâŚ
I knew the NĂźrburgring 24 Hours was a big deal before I got here. Theyâve got 15.99 miles of track to run tons of cars at once, and regular enthusiasts routinely go door-to-door with Le Mans winners. But the sheer size and scale of this event is larger than I could have ever imagined, and the utter lunacy of racingâŚ
On a normal day, the NĂźrburgring is heaven for car dorks. This weekend, over 200,000 racing fansâincluding meâwill descend upon the âRing to watch 151 utterly insane teams try to race for an entire day on the full 12.9-mile Nordscheleife course, and I canât wait. My mind is slowly exploding from the awesomeness thatâŚ
The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is giving racing fans what weâve always wanted: pure, unrestricted speed. Since it is not racing the 919 anymore, Porsche dropped the series-mandated restrictions and are on a warpath to dominate lap records across the globe. Yet we all know that only one lap time really matters: theâŚ
After three years of doing about 450 NĂźrburgring laps a year, this RSR NĂźrburg Nissan GT-R is finally ready to retire from track duty. Now itâs time to tabulate everything itâs burned through over all that high-stress mileage.
For those who say a Porsche 911 Carrera S, GTS, Turbo or Turbo S are simply not enough, there are the GT2 and GT3 models. Theyâre insane, overpowered, meant for the race track and come with the six-figure price tags to match. And the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, somehow, is on a whole other level.
