Radical SR8LM puts to bed Nurburgring lap record controversy

For a lot of us who are in tune with cars, the recent news that the Gumpert Apollo Sport broke the Nurburgring lap record for a road-production car with a time of 7:11.57 caught us off-guard. It wasn’t because we didn’t think the Apollo could do it, but it was more because we knew that the ‘record time’ the folks at Gumpert claimed the Apollo did was still about 16 seconds slower than the actual world-record holder, the Radical SR8 achieved when it set a blistering time of 6:55 at the very same track.

As it turns out, the folks at Radical may have also heard of Gumpert’s proclamations and promptly set the record straight the only way they know how: shatter it again. We mentioned a couple of days ago about the new car Radical is developing that would succeed the SR8 in the record books – the SR8LM.

So in an effort to clear up the confusion, Radical let the SR8LM loose at the Nurburgring where it ran wild around the lap to break the record held by its predecessor by a staggering seven seconds, clocking in at 6:48.

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