Not a record run this time around, but a sub 6:50 lap is still some going 🤯
Yes, yes, another fast Porsche going very quickly around the Nurburgring. You’ve seen it all before, right? Not this time, promise. Because, complete with a Weissach Package, Cup 2Rs and 860kg of downforce, has lapped the 20.8km Nordschleife lap in 6:49.328 seconds. With just 525hp, don’t forget.
It’s a genuinely extraordinary time, just when it seemed like the laps couldn’t get any crazier. It’s not far off a second per horsepower faster than the standard, 510hp 992 GT3 which goes to show just how much say the overhauled aero is having. And get this: on the old record loop, this RS recorded a 6:44.848. On the same lap, a 918 Spyder did 6:57 in 2013. Back then, the notion of a mere 911 going so much faster with 350hp less would have sounded like science fiction.
The lap itself, driven by Jorg Bergmeister, is absorbing to say the least. Neither the acceleration nor maximum speeds are all that by the standards of mega Nordschleife laps - 280km/h at Schwedenkreuz, 290km/h down the Dottinger Hohe - but the cornering is out of this world. You can watch Bergmeister (also the man responsible for
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