RE: Gumpert Goes For 'Ring Record
Wednesday 19th August 2009
The Nurburgring 'road car' lap-time battle has swung into the spotlight once more, as German supercar maker Gumpert has sent its Apollo Sport model round the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a claimed 7min 11sec.
Close, but no Radical-beater...Mind you, the Gumpert that lapped the Nordschleife on 13 August with 26-year-old Florian Gruber at the wheel was producing 700bhp from its 4.2-litre, twin-turbo, mid-mounted Audi V8...
Gumpert Goes For 'Ring Record
German supercar beats GT-R and ZR-1, but still trails Radical
This revelation comes less than a week after the US-built Devon GTX was spotted lapping the 'Ring with the aim of beating Radical's 2005 record of 6m 55s, set in an SR8.
Although Gumpert appears to be claiming a road-car lap record, they appear to have overlooked the Radical SR8's achievement, as that car is fully road legal too. Still, the Gumpert's time is nevertheless pretty impressive, beating the Nissan GT-R (7m 28s), the Corvette ZR-1 (7m 26s) and even the Viper ACR (7m 22s).
Close, but no Radical-beater...
Discussion
Wasn't the SR8 lap on non-road legal tyres or something? I'm sure there was some reason why it was discounted.
Still, all these cars are going round ever faster, which is impressive - but what's really impressive is the drivers. You'd have to not only be amazingly talented and know the track like the top of your knob, but have balls of steel as well.
Still, all these cars are going round ever faster, which is impressive - but what's really impressive is the drivers. You'd have to not only be amazingly talented and know the track like the top of your knob, but have balls of steel as well.
ludoZ3 said:
SR8 is only road legal in the UK as far as I know (or on an case by case basis), it doesn't have any type approoval, that's what make gumpert claim valid anywhere but in the UK. 
Pretty sure it was on CR500's which are legal. It'd have been much faster on slicks. I am curious though as to whether it used the high downforce pack or the road legal one... If it was the road legal kit too, then really, you can't discount it. It passed the same SVA that a Caterham would have.write-up said:
Although Gumpert appears to be claiming a road-car lap record, they appear to have overlooked the Radical SR8's achievement, as that car is fully road legal too.
It would probably be helpful if people were to ignore the Radical's "record". Being "road legal" (the "fully" bit is meaningless) is totally different from being a "road car". We all know that the SR8 is a racing car.
Maybe the Gumpert is really a racing car too. With that ride height, I doubt that the car could even go to the Dottinger Hohe ED station to refuel.
juansolo said:
Pretty sure it was on CR500's which are legal. It'd have been much faster on slicks. I am curious though as to whether it used the high downforce pack or the road legal one... If it was the road legal kit too, then really, you can't discount it. It passed the same SVA that a Caterham would have.
Too bad the world expand just slightly over the UK borders then! 
Here you can put some caterham legally on the raod, not all (same applies to most EU country) however and SR8, no but a gumpert is a road legal car anywhere GTR720 is no more road legal in many EU countries that the SR8
Edited by ludoZ3 on Wednesday 19th August 13:50
ludoZ3 said:
juansolo said:
Pretty sure it was on CR500's which are legal. It'd have been much faster on slicks. I am curious though as to whether it used the high downforce pack or the road legal one... If it was the road legal kit too, then really, you can't discount it. It passed the same SVA that a Caterham would have.
Too bad the world expand just slightly over the UK borders then! Here you can put some caterham legally on the raod, not all (same applies to most EU country) however and SR8, no but a gumpert is a road legal car anywhere GTR720 is no more road legal in many EU countries that the SR8
Edited by ludoZ3 on Wednesday 19th August 13:50
flemke said:
write-up said:
Although Gumpert appears to be claiming a road-car lap record, they appear to have overlooked the Radical SR8's achievement, as that car is fully road legal too.
It would probably be helpful if people were to ignore the Radical's "record". Being "road legal" (the "fully" bit is meaningless) is totally different from being a "road car". We all know that the SR8 is a racing car.
Maybe the Gumpert is really a racing car too. With that ride height, I doubt that the car could even go to the Dottinger Hohe ED station to refuel.
ludoZ3 said:
juansolo said:
Perfectly legal to drive it outside those borders though provided it's registered, and legal within them.
which is almost imposible on most EU country. if you feel like it I invite you to try to register one in france for exemple Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff