Porsche's GT2 RS smokes 'Ring record!

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
28 Sep 2017
1 min read

Porsche's new rear-drive, twin-turbo 911 GT2 RS has set the record for the fastest rear-drive road-legal car to lap the Nurburgring Nordschleife!

The 6min 47sec time actually also beats the time set by their own hybrid hypercar, the 918 Spyder, by a stunning 10 seconds!

The German automaker had set a target of 7min 05secs, but blew that away by 18 seconds, despite wearing fully road-legal Michelin tyres. While debate rages about the effectiveness of manufacturers chasing records at the legendary German race track, the blistering pace of the GT2 RS's lap shows just what a devastatingly fast car it is.

Iain Kelly is the Porschephile behind The Creators Online.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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