Gumpert Apollo Sport Sets Nürburgring Record: 7:11.57

[Latinbalar]

You guys are forgetting that even though the Gumpert is a production car it still has all the characteristics of a race car.  It has front and rear adjustable wings, which make it glue to the track during high speed turns.  It's suspension is fully adjustable, so if you have any body with an idea on how to tune can dial it in.  The traction control is a nob that you can  adjust from 0% to 100%.  Its a supermarket race car and its ugly because its functional but there lies its beauty.  It does surprise me that it beat the record.


Does anybody know the track record in a race car on the Ring?

[NAKID]

Who says it's ugly? It's not the best looking car out there, but I would say it's far from ugly...

[stateprez]

4:40- a "street car" that should come with its own chiropractor. 

[superjohn]

What I find interesting is that the video had a glitch at exactly the same point that Forza 2 does on my X-box.

Kinda freaky actually.

[Kopfjäger]

Does anybody know the track record in a race car on the Ring?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_lap_times

[Kopfjäger]

You can get 4 of these for the price of the Gumpert, or one and a 300K Condo. 


ZR1 Nurburgring Official 7:26.4 Record Corvette Run

[Raux]

watching the first 30 sec of the vette video... either the Gumpert is being driving by a driver with ice in his veins or the car is SOOO much better than the vette.

[Kopfjäger]

watching the first 30 sec of the vette video... either the Gumpert is being driving by a driver with ice in his veins or the car is SOOO much better than the vette.

Yep, $300K better. 

[rockaduc]

watching the first 30 sec of the vette video... either the Gumpert is being driving by a driver with ice in his veins or the car is SOOO much better than the vette.

I think it's the driver.  The Gumpert driver uses everybit of roadway/curbing to clip those apexes whereas the zr1 driver seems to drive around the curbing.

[stateprez]

Yep, $300K better. 

Considering F1 teams spend $20 million (crude estimation) per second in development costs, $300k for 15 seconds sounds like a bargain.