Porsche's new hybrid hypercar, the Porsche 918 Spyder has set a sub-seven minute lap time at the Nurburgring.
Just hours after the new 918 Spyder made its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Porsche has announced that the new car has lapped the fearsome 12.8-mile circuit in less than seven minutes, clocking a time of 6 minutes and 57 seconds exactly.
This makes the 918 Spyder the fastest car with global road homologation ever to lap the Nurburgring. The record time was set by Porsche factory racing driver Marc Lieb on 4 September.
The 918 Spyder lapped the Nurburgring nearly half a minute quicker than the old Carrera GT and only 10 seconds off the overall record for non-road legal road cars set by the Pagani Zonda R.
"The radical hybridisation of the 918 Spyder from the very outset is what made this lap record possible," said Dr. Frank Walliser, head of the 918 Spyder project.
"The lap time on the Nordschleife is, and remains, the toughest measure of a super sports car. Posting a time of 6.57 minutes, we achieved a result of which everyone in the development team -- and at Porsche as a whole -- is rightly proud."
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