Watch The Mercedes-AMG GT R Smash Out An Incredible 7min 10sec 'Ring Time
Mercedes-AMG made a big deal about the new GT R’s Nurburgring development while marketing the car, but someone’s actually beaten the company to it with a hot lap time. The ‘someone’ is Sport Auto magazine, who sent the car around the Green Hell with ruthlessly quick driver Christian Gebhardt behind the wheel, who clocked an astonishing 7min 10.92sec.
That’s just over two seconds off the Nissan GT-R Nismo N Attack’s time, and just over 10 seconds off the Lamborghini Aventador SV. Not bad, right?
As a reminder, the AMG GT R is considerably more powerful than the ‘lesser’ GT S, with 577bhp from its 4.0-litre V8 courtesy of new turbochargers. The suspension and brakes have been considerably beefed up, and it’s littered with clever bits of active and passive aero.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Here is a closer picture of the “Green Hell”
Crap, that looks fast!
I’m quite impressed, but I still don’t like it
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the front grille?
But it still gets beaten to sixty by the Mercedes E63S.
Because the E63 is 4wd
Speed is not enough to make a car into a supercar, thats why the Nismo for example isn’t a supercar
What ?
The Viper is 9 seconds faster… Even with double the price and production by Mercedes, the AMG GT R can’t stand up to a good bout of… ‘MURICA!!!
Correct, but i’d still rather drive the amg towards and back home from the track :D (as spoken by a viper enthusiast)
The start and finish points are not the same. I find it funny that they have a .92 accuracy, yet have the start/finish a 100 feet apart or so.
edit: It is probably like 200 feet different.
thats just how the do it. if you go look at a list of nords hotlaps you ll see that some times have been recorded on a 22600m track and others on 22700m.
Omg Ive been this car hit 300 kmh, and it was worth it!
It’s crazy watching these nurburgring videos while having the track layout memorized from forza.
Or from Gran Turismo IV. Remember when you had to race the Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16V Evolution II to get the, I think, S license. Rough times.
The green hell was defeated by green heaven