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Pagani Zonda R Smashes Nurburgring Record

The Nurburgring has become the center of the performance carmakers’ ego battle, with more and more vehicles aiming to beat the Nordschelife lap time record for their category. The 20,8 km of German Tarmac now serve much more than their original racing and testing purposes, as they have also become a marketing instrument and one of the favorite work sites for spy photographers (our team of spy shooters loves the brake dust topping coffee there).

As we were saying, one of the purposes of meaning for a large number of go-fast automotive creations is to beat the ‘Ring record. The latest vehicle to have achieved such a (temporary) victory is the Pagani Zonda R, which managed to lap the track in 6 minutes 47 seconds, as Top Gear Italia reports.

This is not the main record that most supercar producers target (the fastest street legal car on the Green Hell is the Radical SR8LM - 6:48) but the top time in the class that includes racing vehicles derived from road legal models. This category that includes “la creme de la creme” of the world’s supercars has been inaugurated earlier this month by the Ferrari F599XX, Ferrari’s customer racing program vehicle.

As you’ve already figured out, the F599XX’s time was crushed by the motorsport version of the Zonda. The Pracing Horse’s racer posted a Nordschelife laptime of 6 minutes 58 seconds.

The world is only big enough for 15 units of the Zonda R. The 1070 kg vehicle is powered by an AMG 6.0 liter V12 unit punishing the rear wheels with 750hp and a maximum torque of 710 Nm. The EUR1,500,000 vehicle deals with the 0 to 62 mph/h sprint in 2.7 seconds and can keep on accelerating up to 350 km/h.
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