Matt LeBlanc on a tour of London with Ken Block and his Hoonicorn Mustang.
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***THIS IS NOT PORSCHE´S ACTUAL BEST LAP***
Porsche only published onboard footage of a 1:43?,5! In order to make this video I rendered their video at a speed of about 102%, which shortend the 1:43?,5 to approximately 1:41?,7 (which is the actual time Porsche set)
This video is meant to demonstrate the different strenghts and “weaknesses” of the two fastest racing cars in the world around the world famous Circuit de Spa-Franchochamps.
Porsche operated their car without adhering to any regulations which they have been previously bound to, resulting in a much faster time, than the car would do under normal (legal) conditions. They did this to showcase the potential of their 919 Hybrid and to demonstrate how much the car had been held back by the regulations. As it turned out, it was even faster than the Formula 1 Cars of 2017 and most F1 Cars of 2018. Only Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas since managed to beat Porsche´s time of 1:41?,770 set in 2018.
Through the Green Hell at 369 km/h: Experience the fastest lap ever driven on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
5:19?.546 on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard (37, Germany) crossed the finish line of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife this morning at the wheel of the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. With this achievement, the two-times Le Mans winner has beaten the lap record on the revered 20.832 kilometre long German race circuit that stood for 35 years. On May 28 in 1983, Stefan Bellof lapped the world-renowned track with a Porsche 956 C in a legendary time of 6:11.13 minutes.
Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California’s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand.
It sure would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those, Meyers thought, if only they weren’t so ugly and didn’t appear so uncomfortable. He built his own solution: a “dune buggy” fashioned out of lightweight fiberglass mounted on four oversized tires with two bug-eyed looking headlights and a blindingly bright paint job.
The result would become both an overnight automotive sensation and one of the talismans of California surf culture, especially when he created a space in the back to … More