Gumpert Apollo Sport sets Nurburgring lap record
Apollo Sport breaks road car record with a 7m11.57s lap time around the Nürburgring-Nordschleife track
By Alex Ricciuti
August 18, 2009 4:45 PM
Filed Under: German, Nürburgring, Specialty Marques, Supercars
The Gumpert Apollo Sport has set a new lap record for a road-legal production car at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife track as timed and reported by German magazine Sport-Auto.
The Audi-powered Apollo Sport was piloted by 26 year-old driver Florian Gruber on August 13th as the record time of exactly 7m11.57s was set. According to Sport-Auto the record was previously held by Michael Düchting clocking in 7m14.89s on a Donkervoort D8 RS06 in November 2005. However, if our memory serves correctly, wasn't it the Radical SR8 in road legal trim that clocked 6m55s?
The 700 hp of the car is provided by a 4.2 liter, bi-turbo V8 engine supplied by Audi. It propels the Gumpert Apollo from 0 to 200 km/h in 8.9 seconds and gives the car a top speed of 360 km/h.
Roland Gumpert, a former VW executive, started Gumpert back in 2004 in order to create track-ready and track-worthy supercars that were also street legal.
Road tests for the Apollo Sport are scheduled for mid-September. A release date has not yet been announced.
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The Gumpert Apollo is a really amazing project. Good luck to that small company for the future..
many people die trying set their best lap on Nur! before you enter Nur you sign up somekind of deal that if you die this is your guilt! aproximately 12 people die per year in Nur!
so there won't be changed nothing!
bye
i think Apollo clients are serious people who don't need a Lamborghini or a SLR to pose around. there are rich people who actually have a passion for driving (the FIA GT3 drivers/owners for example) and they like a car they can drive to the track and back.maybe they want a challenge greater than their Scuderia or GT3-RS.
anyway, this car is hardcore, i'm sure posers won't touch it.
Edited by user on August 18, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Edited by user on August 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM
sometimes small companies build better products and go to the limit because they are free to do what they want , they don't have a horde of shareholders telling them what to do.
btw , the Apollo is as street usable if not even more than an Enzo, a Masetari MC12,a Zonda ,or a Murcielago, a SLR Stirling Moss, a Viper ACR or an Ascari A10.
Pagani are really good, but they sacrifice performance for style and their engine is not as powerful as the Apollo's. not to mention they don't have the engineers that won Le Mans 8 times in the last decade.
i suggest you inform yourself before posting
Edited by user on August 20, 2009 at 9:50 PM
one example why the Apollo is so hardcore is it's chassis, average supercars have 27KN/degree torsional rigidity, a F1 car has 44KN , the Apollo has 40KN. the innovations in the Apollo are not electronic in nature like in a Ferrari , but mechanical , like in a Porsche.
Edited by user on August 21, 2009 at 12:24 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIXK3vsiLkw&feature=related
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