PORSCHE 919 HYBRID EVO BREAKS NURBURGRING LAP RECORD l On Board

PORSCHE 919 HYBRID EVO BREAKS NURBURGRING LAP RECORD l On Board. Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo obliterates Nürburgring lap record The former overall record stood for 35 years and 31 you don’t have to adhere to race regulations, the sky’s the limit, and Porsche built itself one hell of a rocketship. Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Evo, based on its Le Mans prototype racer, utterly crushed the overall lap record at Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife on Friday. Its single-lap time of 5: beat the previous record by a stunning seconds, set 35 years ago in a Porsche 956 C. Wrestling the car through all miles of track was Timo Bernhard, a five-time winner of the Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race and two-time overall winner at Le Mans. For some context, this lap was about 90 seconds faster than the production-car record holder, the Porsche 911 GT2 RS.