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It seems incredible for a car to close the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit by 12.94 miles in just 5: 19.546 seconds. The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo has traveled 51.58 seconds longer than the old lap record, with an average speed of 145.3 mph. What is even stranger, however, is that the last record remained undefeated for more than 35 years, and was not even a big deal when it was put together.
(Full Disclosure: I was the guest of Porsche today for this race, which included travel, food and accommodation to make me come from Texas to watch this lap record.)
I know we have already posted on board, but Holy Shit. The lap record is almost less credible in the edge view, as if you were playing one of those Red Bull experimental cars that theoretically existed only on Gran Turismo .
Porsche told us that they had no camera when they ran their lap of Spa-Francorchamps in Formula 1 to save weight, but we all know that this will not happen not with the Nürburgring. Obsessive Ring fans have made an entire cottage industry scrutinize every time lapse announced for the ultra-popular Nordschleife course, where most of the ringing times are set.
We now need receipts if you want to pronounce the name of the new King of the Ring, and they are there, with a picture in the picture of Bob Timo Bernhard's helmet. Porsche has even superimposed some of the basic data recorded from a Vbox in the car from the above board video, which is nice to have.
It is important to note that the obsession of ring time is a relatively modern phenomenon. When Stefan Bellof set the record time of 6: 11.13 exactly 35 years and 31 days ago today, he was hardly recognized. In fact, there was only one page where it was documented when we went through the historical archives of Porsche related to Bellof's knees.
Bellof sets his untouchable lap in qualifying for the race, the only mention of his record 6: 11.13 is therefore on a page of qualifying results. The Bellof Porsche 956C was later totaled during the race after Bellof also set the fastest lap in the race of 6: 25.91. During the race, Bellof overturned the car and destroyed it, but managed to go out to sign autographs for the fans. He won the World Sports Car Championship in 1984, but died in an accident at Spa-Francorchamps in 1985. It is a huge loss of a promising young runner.
As for his record, it took years for him to be spoken with the kind of reverence that it took place even today, when the 919 Hybrid Evo l & # 39; 39, outclassed. For everyone that day, the 956C was expected to be faster than its predecessors, and just a routine to establish a quick ride in practice.
Porsche's technical director at the time, Norbert Singer, told Jalopnik that Bellof's record was not even planned. It was just a normal job. When the time came, some of Singer's teammates asked her if the time displayed was a mistake, but that's about as much attention as she's had for years.
Still, we all know that the cult of "Ring time" is alive and well. Bellof's ride has developed a strange myth over the years, including unfounded claims that Porsche and everyone has held some kind of superstition about beating the round. The archivists of Porsche and Singer both said that it was not true, but there was simply no car fast enough to beat Bellof's timed settings on the track.
I have the impression that "the mania of the ringing time seems to have coincided with the rise of the Internet as an accessible thing and ubiquitous. It was at that time that I noticed that people were concerned about some track in Germany, anyway. All those who already have, ahem, "acquired" Top Gear remember the rooting of Jeremy Clarkson for being beaten by the local runner and my only real bomb Sabine Schmitz in a Transit van.
Entire forums and websites are now following every move of vehicles that fall into tourist training sessions or billiard periods of industry. We are obsessed with weird stuff and fast times. The fact that someone like me who lives on a big ocean of the Nürburgring takes precedence over new cars to go faster on a specific race track in the world testifies to the current craze for the world. ; automobile.
Porsche's turn today is the satisfying front of "Ring time mania". These cars like the 919 Hybrid Evo and Volkswagen Pikes Peak setting record I.D. The R deliver speed records that deliver something missing too often in many modern racing series. Competition between wheels needs a kind of parity between cars to make it interesting and give each driver or team a chance to win. That's fine, but sometimes you just want to see oversized cars to provide raw and nasty gear. That's why we love ring time so much, even when we're not there physically.
The Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo is a technological marvel based on Porsche's Le Mans prototype, which won the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2015 to 2017, but is now free from the restrictions of any series. That means its hybrid powertrain now produces 1160 horsepower, its active aerodynamics produces over 50 percent support and its weight has been reduced to just 1872 pounds.
It was surreal to watch this lap record in person because it came back much faster than you expected from a car. Once the car was out, there was not even an opportunity to have a bathroom break unless being able to pee in the building that they had opened for that purpose, a few steps from the tent of 919.
You want another incredible statistic? Today's top speed on the notoriously dangerous and winding Nordschleife was 229.5 mph.
[This post has been updated since publication.]
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