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First Ferrari, then Pagani break Nurburgring lap recordPosted 2 weeks ago in Italian, Supercar News

Recently Ferrari amazed everyone by announcing that their 599XX had broken the lap record for the Nurburgring. Then Pagani announce they’ve smashed the previous Italians just a few weeks later….
Of course we’re not talking about the production car record, which both Ferrari and Pagani fail to mention. This is the ‘production-based car’ lap record. What that means is that neither of these cars is actually road legal, more a road car based track-only race car.
The 599XX is the latest development vehicle from Ferrari’s Customer Development Program. Basically you buy the car for around €1,250,000 and never actually take it home. It’s kept by Ferrari, and brought out for races, testing and track days. You become part of the ferrari development team -- quite an attractive proposition for those with the means. It has 730bhp, and when it attacked the ‘Ring in April it stunned many onlookers by setting a lap time of 6 minutes 58 seconds, a stunning acheivement.


However, as Ferrari sat back and grinned smugly, there were many people busy in another Italian garage; that of supercar builder Horatio Pagani -- builder of the legendary Zonda. Their track-only Zonda R is not as elitist as the Ferrari programme, but for your €1,500,000 you get 740bhp, and the closest thing to a group-C race car you can buy. An orgy of wings, carbon fibre and titanium, the Zonda R takes everything good about the Zonda F road car, and turns it up to 11. The result?
They turn up and smash Ferrari’s lap time by 11 seconds, with a stunning new record of 6 minutes 47 seconds. Check out the amazing lap below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPd0ATqvoJM

Source:BOTB News

 

just simply amazing