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Porsche smashes Nurburgring record with outlaw racer

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
2 Jul 2018
1 min read

After 35 years Porsche have blown their own lap record of the Nurburgring Nordschleife apart. They took their specially created 919 Evo hybrid endurance racer to Germany to reset the record set by the late, great Stefan Bellof in 1983. 

Bellof set his time, faster than F1 cars of the time, in a monstrous Porsche 956 Group C racer, which owned the World Endurance Championship in the '80s. But it was no match for 35 years of progress and Timo Bernhard was able to demolish the time to reset the lap record from 6min 11sec to 5min 19sec!

Iain Kelly is the revhead behind The Creators Online.

Do you think it'll take another 35 years to beat this record? Let us know in the comments.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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