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Nurburgring EV Lap Record Changes Hands But Stays In China

BYD’s Yangwang U9 electric supercar has dipped below 7 minutes a lap, beating another Chinese EV, but needing twice the horsepower to do it.

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Watch the Lexus LFA Tear Up the Nürburgring, Before It Became a Legend

It's fun to go back through the archive. And with Toyota and Lexus's new sports car inching closer to reality, we're going to take a look back at its predecessor, the mighty Lexus LFA. Back in 2009, when this website was still called WorldCarFans, we uploaded a video of a near-production-ready…

Motor1

The surprising gesture from Fernando Alonso that almost got his McLaren colleagues fired

Ex-McLaren race engineer Mark Slade says Fernando Alonso handed out €1,000 cash envelopes to his crew at the 2007 Nürburgring as a thank you

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F1 CEO: History "not enough" to keep classic venues on the calendar

Stefano Domenicali says 'new fans' have short memories and neither know nor care about the difference between Monaco and Las Vegas. Is this a message and, if so, to whom?

Autosport

Sim-racer-to-driver path should no longer carry a stigma after Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring win

Misha Charoudin says Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring GT3 win with sim-racing ace Chris Lulham, on top of Jann Mardenborough’s P2, shows sim racing is a credible, cost-effective pathway to real-world racing success and should kill the “just gamers” stigma

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Max Verstappen reflects on ‘fantastic’ Nurburgring GT3 win to cap off sensational month

The F1 star triumphed in his first GT3 race at the infamous ‘Green Hell’ circuit in Germany on Saturday

The Independent UK

Max Verstappen to make NLS GT3 race debut at Nordschleife this weekend

Verstappen will be going for overall race victory this weekend at the Nurburgring

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Verstappen to make GT3 race debut at Nordschleife in NLS this weekend

Verstappen will be going for overall race victory this weekend at the Nurburgring

Autosport

What Verstappen's Nurburgring adventure says about his racing future

Max Verstappen's future in motor racing has long been a topic of conversation and that heightened after his Nurburgring exploits last weekend

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What Max Verstappen's Nurburgring adventure tells us about his racing future

Max Verstappen's future in motor racing has long been a topic of conversation and that heightened after his Nurburgring exploits last weekend

Motorsport

Max Verstappen eyes prestigious race outside of F1 after Nurburgring debut

The four-time F1 world champion obtained his DMSB Nordschleife permit after a convoluted process

The Independent UK

Nurburgring 24h in sight as Verstappen ponders next step in GT

With a Nurburgring Permit A in the back pocket, this is what Max Verstappen's next steps in GT racing could look like

Autosport

What's next for Max Verstappen's GT plans? "Nurburgring 24 would be amazing"

With a Nurburgring Permit A in the back pocket, this is what Max Verstappen's next steps in GT racing could look like

Motorsport

Max Verstappen's Nordschleife race debut set for weekend

In a throwback to the days when F1 drivers moonlighted in all manner of categories, Max Verstappen will make his long-awaited Nurburgring Endurance Series debut on the Nordschleife this weekend. Provided he behaves himself in the classroom on Friday...

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Verstappen to make long-awaited Nordschleife race debut this weekend

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Watch the Hybrid Porsche 911 Turbo S Rip Around the Nürburgring

The Porsche 911 Turbo S has gone hybrid, and unsurprisingly, it’s very quick. With 701 horsepower alongside significant chassis and aerodynamic tweaks, Porsche claims a 14-second improvement over its previous Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time. Porsche factory driver Jörg Bergmeister piloted the new Turbo S to a 7:03.92 around the German…

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Inside the Corvette Team's Record-Setting Assault on the Nürburgring

For Corvette engineers, America’s Sports Car is part of their 9-to-5: No cameras, no stopwatches, no headlines. It’s just what they do. Even in unglamorous Michigan winters at Milford Proving Ground, where GM has tested cars for 101 years, Corvette developers log and slog their share of 15 million annual…

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Ford Just Beat the Mustang GTD's Nürburgring Lap Time... With a Van

Ford just set a new personal best time at the Nürburgring. But it wasn't in a Mustang GTD. Instead, the company did it in its one-off "SuperVan," an all-electric, track-only demonstrator based loosely on the Transit. The time of 6:48, set by Romain Dumas, makes the van four seconds quicker than…

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Meet the 2,000-HP Electric Corvette of the Future

When Chevrolet isn’t busy setting records at the Nürburgring with the Corvette ZR1X, its designers are back in the lab, cooking up concepts that imagine the far-off future of America’s favorite sports car.

Motor1

The Frustrating Pseudoscience of Nürburgring Lap Times

Numbers help us make sense of the world. In cars, numbers tell us a lot—a car that does 0-60 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds is objectively quicker than one that does it in 3.6 seconds.

Autosport

DTM Nurburgring: Aitken wins red-flagged race to take points lead

Emil Frey Ferrari driver Jack Aitken has taken a commanding victory in the DTM’s first Nurburgring race to become the 2025 championship’s new leader.

Motorsport

DTM Nurburgring: Jack Aitken wins red-flagged race to take points lead

Emil Frey Ferrari driver Jack Aitken has taken a commanding victory in the DTM’s first Nurburgring race to become the 2025 championship’s new leader.

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Mission Accomplished: The Corvette ZR1X Broke Ford's Nürburgring Record

Chevrolet has tested Corvettes around the Nürburgring for decades, but it’s been over 10 years since the company released a Nordschleife lap time for America’s sports car. That changes Thursday. Chevy brought three C8 Corvettes to the ‘Ring—the Z06, ZR1, and ZR1X—and now claims the title of fastest American car around…

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Both Drivers Somehow Walked Away From This Explosive Nürburgring Crash

The drivers of a BMW M2 and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS were lucky to walk away with their lives after a scary crash on the Nürburgring this past Saturday, which left both cars totaled. The collision occurred during a tourist drive session at the quickest part of the circuit,…

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This Chinese Sedan Is Faster Than Every Supercar Around the Nürburgring

If you still aren't taking China's EVs seriously, here's further proof that you should. A caged, stripped-out Xiaomi SU7 Ultra prototype lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in just 6 minutes, 22 seconds—24 seconds quicker than its previous lap set in 2024. That means an electric prototype from China is quicker than…

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