1 year ago

Gumpert Apollo Speed sets new Ring record (7:11) - Confirmed!

Update: SportAuto has confirmed the laptime of 7:11.57 as the new record for Nordschleife. It is safe to say now that we have a new king-of-the-ring!

Is it just another rumor or speculation (just like the 7:40 Bugatti Veyron time), or is it a fact?

Several sites (none of which are very well known or trusted) have published an article claiming that the new Gumpert Apollo Speed, with a guy named Florian Gruber behind the wheel, has broken (or shall I say - completely destroyed) current Nurburgring Nordschleife record for road legal vehicles (ignoring the barely legal Radical SR8). The current record holder is Dodgle Viper SRT-10 ACR with a laptime of 7 minutes and 22 seconds. The supposed new record by Gumpert is 7 minutes and 11 seconds - more than 10 second improvement!

I have no idea whether or not this is true and legit and unless it's official and confirmed, the 7:11 laptime will be prefixed with a big question mark on our Nordschleife laptime sheet. Fastest car status on the ring is a very sensitive issue and we do not include rumors in our laptime sheets.

Either way I will keep you posted on how this develops. I really do hope this laptime get's confirmed because I believe that car is capable of such speeds. Viper ACR is great but it clearly isn't the fastest road-going race car you can buy.