Without a doubt, Germany's fearsome Nurburging Nordschliefe would have to be the ultimate automotive performance test track. It packs 73 suspension-mashing corners into its 20.8km length, corners which range from high-speed sweepers to tight hairpins like the iconic Karussell. In between these corners are the expansive straights which put engines under immense strain, particularly the long, steep uphill sections such as Kesselchen. It's 20km of torture, but apparently Nissan's GT-R can do it faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo.
After Nissan recently returned to the 'Ring to do some further testing on the GT-R, spy photographers decided to whip out their stopwatches and see just how fast it really was. The result was a hand-timed figure in the region of 7 minutes and 38 seconds, which makes the GT-R about two seconds faster than the 997 Porsche 911 Turbo, which has been unofficially clocked at 7:40.
While two seconds difference around the "Green Hell" might not have the same impact that it would at a much shorter track - like Tsukuba - it's still an outstanding result for Nissan and the bragging rights alone will surely do wonders when the time comes to move those GT-Rs off the showroom floor. A Nissan faster than Porsche's best? You'd better believe it!
Fancy Racing Around Your Own Green Hell?
Latest news from Sony is that the GT-R, along with a bevy of other highly-anticipated models, will be released in a free downloadable demo of Gran Turismo 5 (in-game screenshot above) to coincide with the opening of the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show on October 20. It's news like this that makes us want to ignore the PS3's grossly over-inflated RRP and get it just for GT5 - then spend 36 sleepless hours trying to beat Nissan's own Nordschliefe lap record.
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