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Written by Stephen Dobie
It started, like all good ideas, with beer. Porsche was leaving top flight endurance racing and the team behind the 919 Hybrid a three-times Le Mans winner were consoling themselves with a few ales when they came up with a plan. Why not free the car of all its stifling World Endurance Championship restrictions, to see how fast a hybrid prototype can really go? Then take it to some iconic race circuits, to show the public exactly what a car with no limits can achieve Less than a year later, the 919 Hybrid Evo toppled a 35-year-old lap record at where else the N rburgring. Sure, a Ring record is trumpeted on a near-weekly basis, but this one came with no confusing caveats or qualifiers. It"s not the fastest front-wheel-drive this or seven-seat that; it"s simply the fastest car ever around the Nordschleife. Surely everyone can get excited about that. While Porsche had been keeping its cards close to its chest, it dropped a severely big hint when the 919 Evo did a parade lap before May 2018"s N rburgring 24 hours. The car may just have pottered round, but it did so alongside an old Porsche 956, just like the one Stefan Bellof set the 6m11.13s Nordschleife lap record in, back in 1983. You didn"t have to be Sherlock to piece the clues together.
Date written: 30 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12388
It started, like all good ideas, with beer. Porsche was leaving top flight endurance racing and the team behind the 919 Hybrid a three-times Le Mans winner were consoling themselves with a few ales when they came up with a plan. Why not free the car of all its stifling World Endurance Championship restrictions, to see how fast a hybrid prototype can really go? Then take it to some iconic race circuits, to show the public exactly what a car with no limits can achieve Less than a year later, the 919 Hybrid Evo toppled a 35-year-old lap record at where else the N rburgring. Sure, a Ring record is trumpeted on a near-weekly basis, but this one came with no confusing caveats or qualifiers. It"s not the fastest front-wheel-drive this or seven-seat that; it"s simply the fastest car ever around the Nordschleife. Surely everyone can get excited about that. While Porsche had been keeping its cards close to its chest, it dropped a severely big hint when the 919 Evo did a parade lap before May 2018"s N rburgring 24 hours. The car may just have pottered round, but it did so alongside an old Porsche 956, just like the one Stefan Bellof set the 6m11.13s Nordschleife lap record in, back in 1983. You didn"t have to be Sherlock to piece the clues together.
Date written: 30 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12388
