Over two years have past since we last saw a new production road car Nürburgring lap record, but Mercedes has done just that with the new AMG GT Black Series lapping the Nordschleife in a blistering time of 6:43.616 with GT3 driver Maro Engel at the helm. The lap time beat out the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ’s previous production car record time of 6:44.97.
While there is no official standings to govern these lap record results, the Manthey-Racing fettled Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR’s 6:40.3 time also set in 2018 was colloquially denied thanks to its third-party upgrades, as such keeping it from entering the series production road car leaderboard. The Aventador SVJ, then, was the car to beat, and the GT Black Series did so with 1.35 seconds to spare.
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