Skip to main content

Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Crushes Nürburgring Lap Record with 6:44.97 Time

Porsche’s stint as king of the Nürburgring is up. Lamborghini has set a new production-car lap record at the famed German circuit.

With a lap time of 6:44.97, the forthcoming Lamborghini Aventador SVJ claimed the record title. The time is over 2 seconds quicker than Porsche’s former record of 6:47.3 set in the 911 GT2 RS. And Lamborghini managed the record with a naturally aspirated V-12 engine at that. On hand to verify the record was independent firm Remak via GPS certification using VBOX-Racelogic instrumentation.

Lamborghini driver Marco Mapelli, who also set the Huracán Performante’s lap time of 6:57, piloted the supercar to its record time, and aside from Mapelli’s driving skills, much of the credit for the car’s banner performance can be given to Pirelli. The Italian firm worked closely with the tire manufacturer to fine-tune the car’s Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tires. The rubber will also be an option for the Aventador SVJ when it launches later this year.

[See image gallery at www.vwvortex.com]

The other piece to the record-lap puzzle is Lamborghini’s Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva (ALA) active aerodynamics system. The system works to adjust airflow through and around the car for peak downforce and drag to ensure the car slips through corners and powers through straights. Additionally, Lamborghini re-engineered the SVJ’s all-wheel-drive and rear-wheel-steering system for improved on-track performance.

The company hasn’t spilled official specifications yet, but claimed the car offers the best handling and power-to-weight ratio. We now know the said ratio is one horsepower for every 4.36 pounds of weight, per Lamborghini’s Thursday announcement.

Look for the Aventador SVJ to make a formal debut during Monterey Car Week, which runs August 18-26.

a version of this article first appeared on AutoGuide

The post Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Crushes Nürburgring Lap Record with 6:44.97 Time appeared first on VWVortex.



from VWVortex https://ift.tt/2LQ7WRe
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Review: Saying Goodbye to the CC V6

For all its size and its global reach, Volkswagen is still, in many ways, a deeply human company. There was, for instance, the Bugatti Veyron an ego project if ever there was one. Then the purchase of Ducati, a move most called folly. And then there was the Phaeton, the Volkswagen that most folks can’t afford. Not only were these moves all strange, I’m sure that they made VW’s accountants furious. None of them made good business sense, but they were all deeply interesting and they all are evidence of the heart that beats at the center of VW. Among these follies is the CC, a car that everyone agrees is rakishly handsome, but that no one really wanted to buy. The car couldn’t last, but the world is brighter for its having been in it. With the approach debut of the Arteon, it seems like a good time to look back on its sadly departing predecessor. The version I drove, because I live in Canada, is a V6 Wolfsburg Edition, which apparently isn’t available in the States. Nor is the V6, not as...
Post a Comment
Read more

T-Prime Makes World Premiere at Beijing

[ See image gallery at www.vwvortex.com ] The SUV segment is one of the fastest growing segments in the world and Volkswagen is showing the world how to do it. With the new T-Prime Concept GTE that was revealed today, the company is showing off all of the technology you can look for in its coming models. The T-Prime is a full-size hybrid SUV that can go up to 31 miles on a charge and gets 87 mpg. The hybrid power station is good for 375 hp and 516 lb/ft of torque and puts the power down with 4MOTION all wheel drive. It’ll get you up to 60 in six seconds. The concept’s real party piece, though, is its interior, which features exclusively touch, gesture, and voice controls. Everything from the infotainment, to the display, and even the gears are controlled by touch-screen. The T-Prime Concept GTE is bigger than the Touareg, and design elements are likely to find their way into all of their SUVs, of which there will be many. Volkswagen is also announcing that they expect to make an S...
Post a Comment
Read more

Watch: The Transport Does a Whole Hell of a lot More than Transport

Petrolicious doesn’t only feature million-dollar classics, it also features the more generally neat, like this 1996 T4 Transporter that became Instagram famous and started and is starting an empire. Callum Creaser’s T4 started life as a panel van, but over the years it has become a homebrew camper van that has gone on adventures around the world. After posting about his adventures to Instagram, the diesel van gained a following and launched The Rolling Home, a series about other people’s small spaces and homey cars. Based on a 1.4-liter diesel with no ECU, Callum says his T4 is easy as pie to work on since information is widely available from sources like ours. The post Watch: The Transport Does a Whole Hell of a lot More than Transport appeared first on VWVortex . from VWVortex https://ift.tt/2KR01Sv via IFTTT
Post a Comment
Read more