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2010 Porsche 911 Turbo drops 10 seconds off its Nurburgring lap time
There has been quite an interesting back and forth going on between the backwards engineered German sports car builder [Porsche->ke1] and the Japanese automaker [Nissan->ke62] concerning both car builder’s flagship vehicle’s time lapping a certain 12.9 mile long loop. Back in April Nissan announced that the [GT-R->ke1592] had set a [new lap record on the Nurburgring->ar73156] with a lap time of 7 minutes and 29 seconds back on April 17, 2008. After a bit of bad sportsmanship Nissan’s test driver piloted the GT-R around the green Hell in 7 minutes and 26 seconds on April 23rd of this year, besting the Carrera GT super car’s Nordschleif lap time of 7 minutes and 28 seconds.
After the most recent attempt at conquering the ‘Ring, Porsche sent a [2010 911 Turbo->ar77712] to conquer the 73 turn race course with the hidden hope that they would be able to put a dent in the GT-R’s Nurburgring legacy. The new turbo is a much more refined performance machine coming with impro