The Porsche 919 Evo Has Just Set A 5m19s Nurburgring Lap Record
Hold onto your hats – and just about everything else, people – because the all-time outright Nurburgring lap record has just been obliterated.
Porsche’s rules-free 919 Evo, based on its hybrid Le Mans racer but with all the restrictions taken away, has clocked a barely-believable 5m19.545s lap of the famous Nordschleife. Driven by Porsche LMP1 pilot Timo Bernhard, that’s not just a few seconds better than Stefan Bellof’s 1983 lap record; it whacks that 6m11.13s time over the head and eats it for breakfast. It’s not quite under five minutes, but still…
We reported almost a month ago that the 919 had been spotted at the Nurburgring as part of a photoshoot alongside the iconic 956 C, which, not-so-coincidentally, was the car Bellof completed his lap in.
As it turns out, that wasn’t the only reason it was there. Exactly as we’d hoped, the 919 Evo went for the outright lap record. It didn’t just take it, though: it smashed it by 52 seconds.
All we can do is sit, open-mouthed at the astonishing speed of that car. Freed from WEC regulations its new aerodynamics kit adds over 50 per cent more downforce, for corner speeds that should look insane on the on-board footage.
About that, Porsche: please release the on-board footage immediately, so we can spend the next 72 hours watching it on repeat.
EDIT: On-board footage now released and embedded above. Say goodbye to your weekends, everyone.
Hat tip to Robert Gracie and AutoAddiction!
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Boi
Wooh🔥
Over to you Koenigsegg…
Be serious,no chance in hell they catching that record
Koenigsegg would be like “Right hold my Swedish Beer…..”
Think of the budgets….
Yeah, no. They would have to build a racecar not based on a street car and that’s not happening.
Wasn’t koenigsegg banned from the nurburgring after the one:1 crash
Never been so proud to own a Porsche, congrats to them!
Took us 35 years
Totally worth it in my opinion
I’m sure it could’ve done before, but noone bothered
them*
Wow, this is incredible. I expected the car to be fast, but I wouldn’t have expected it to be this fast. Who was the driver?
Timo Bernhard
In before all the doubters and haters get their hands on this news. Yes, this wasn’t during a race. Yes, somehow, it took this long for the record to break. What the hell does it matter? Can you really call yourselves gearheads if all you do is deny this achievement? It’s amazing how nitpicky a lot of people are. Just sit down, shut up, relax and enjoy one of the greatest things to happen this year.
This is probably the greatest thing in this decade lol! I’m so fckin happy haha! I’m Nishant btw
Now that’s my kind of Evo
Same lmao
I’m sure James May will want to have a go.
Damn