Ferrari now holds the record for the fastest lap around Nürburgring from a production driven car. They took their new 599XX and busted out a ridiculous time, topping out at 300km/hr (186mph) on the straight away.



Here is the video.

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HERE is the AutoBlog article on it. Enjoy.

 

186mph....that's hauling the mail!!

 

Absolutely ridiculous. He held that for a good bit of time too...Really impressive.

 

Sadly that's not a production car. It's more of a concept for the new 599 GTO

look at the interior, even the Ferrari Enzo FXX isn't stripped that much. Incredible run nonetheless

 

I was pretty sure it said production driven... meaning from a line of production cars, not necessarily the street form of the car. and it is the new 599GTO. it isn't a GTB. and the 599 GTOs are already having orders being taken for them I thought which means they are already considered a production car evgen though 0 have rolled off the assembly line.

 

Jeremy Clarkson, eat your heart out.

 

I'm pretty sure the amount of current era automobile related useless information rolling around my head would make Clarkson do a double take. I literally read ridiculous amount of information, for fun.

 

Ferrari claims this is the first time that a "production-derived sports car" has broken the seven-minute barrier.

Totally not street legal, and there are plenty of non street legal cars that have lapped the "ring" in under 7 minutes. Just clever marketing

Beautiful car though

edit: forgot my source
http://www.worldcarfans.com/11004232...he-nurburgring

 

I'm with Ferrari on this one. The Radical models that are faster while being street legal are very unusual cases - they were designed to be dedicated track cars that also manage to meet certain requirements that allow them to be legally registered for road use. But first and foremost they were designed specifically for the track. Cars like the 599XX and even the Viper ACR are highly modified versions of cars originally built to be strictly road going cars and, in the case of the original 599GTB Fiorano, pretty damn luxurious to boot. I had the great good fortune to drive a bone stock 599GTB a couple of years ago and the thing was just unbelievable. Heck, even standing behind it at idle the thing sounded better than most cars at full scream. But the interior appointments and quality of materials was impressive indeed. To take a car like that and turn it into a sub 7 minute 'Ring eater is simply outstanding. The thing weighs 3,700 lbs in standard trim - not the stuff pure race cars are made of. A Radical SR8 weighs 1430 lbs - exactly the stuff pure race cars are made of!

So, it arguing semantics or picking nits to say the 599XX is the fastest production-derived sports car to lap the ring in under 7:00? Maybe, but try living with a Radical on a daily basis and see how much of a production road car you think it is.

In the purest terms of "what's the fast street legal car to lap the 'Ring?" there's no denying it's a Radical. But as far as heavily modified road cars go, the Ferrari has a legit claim here.

 

I guess this is my arguement, the Viper ACR is a production vehicle. What you see is what you get, and that vehicle lapped the ring. This 599 is no where near production. It's a 599 that's been completely stripped, including the factory steering wheel. If this is even street legal it would be like living with a crude 355 challenge race car. Now if Ferrari decides to produce a car like this, I'll change my opinion. Regardless the new GTO is an exceptional car and if I had the cash I'd buy one in a heart beat. Ferrari has improved on my favorite car in their line-up. How can you go wrong?

 

The Viper ACR may be a production vehicle, but it destroys a stock Viper. The 599XX is, just as Ferrari states, "derived from a production car" which means exactly that - they started with a production platform and modified it, just as Dodge did with the Viper ACR. Except that Ferrari took the derivation to an extreme with this car. Nonetheless, the original canvas was a very comfortable road car. And in a way, I'm more impressed that a car like this or the ACR are as capable as they are. The Radical was a clean sheet, build it for the track race car - the ACR and 599XX took an existing platform and modified it to achieve stunning performance. In a way, the Corvette ZR1 fits this concept, as does the Porsche 911 GT3, both taking the stock vehicle and modifying and adapting it to be something extra hardcore. Again, neither went as far as the ACR, and certainly nowhere near where Ferrari took the 599.

 

Is the ACR street legal?

"The 599XX is not road legal, so it is not participating in the Porsche/Nissan lap time shootout that started last year, but this is still a very significant record for the prancing horse. Ferrari is only one of two companies to break the 7-minute barrier at the Green Hell, and it is the only one to do it using a production car as a base (the other company to break seven-seconds is Radical, while some of their cars are road legal, we don't consider their F1-inspired cars production models.)"

Ferrari 599XX sets Nurburgring record - MotoBullet.com News

 

I wonder how fast the Caparo T1 goes 'round...[