Starting life in 2014 as a Le Mans prototype racer which brought Porsche back to the winner’s circle at the top of endurance racing, the 919 Hybrid has since evolved into the 919 Hybrid Evo as a no-holds-barred exercise in exploring the realm of what’s possible when freed from sanctioned racing regulations.
Today, the Weissach-based racing outfit has taken the record for the 20.8 km-long circuit with a time of five minutes and 19.55 seconds, with Timo Bernhard in the hot seat, beating the outgoing record by nearly a minute. The outright record at the “Green Hell,” as the Nurburgring Nordschleife is otherwise known, was held by Porsche’s own 956 C with Stefan Bellof at the wheel, charting a time of six minutes 11.13 seconds.
The 919 Hybrid Evo had already shown what’s possible, having taken the outright lap record at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium at the hands of Neel Jani for an average speed of 245.61 km/h throughout the record lap, usurping the previous record held by Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes-AMG F1 W08 EQ Power+ by 0.783 seconds.
A Nurburgring Nordschleife lap time beginning with a five has, until now, been strictly the stuff of PlayStation exploits; watch the video of the onboard lap below.
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Mitsu no more Evo so Posh inherits the name.
the evo name has been used by other cars before mitsubishi used it for the lancer evolution.
Nobody can beat the Germans in pure power!
They lost to toyota in 24 hr le mans
That’s syiok sendiri racing
Syiok sendiri is when you raced against a Porsche on the highway without a license.
Yeah right. They were the only 2 cars in their category. Both Toyotas. Remember the last lap breakdown in front of the grandstand in 2016?
The bottom line is – you need both speed and reliability.
And that goes to the Merc AMG Petronas F1 team too.
I wish our lembap KLIMS bring this car down for the rakyat to view and appreciate it.
Don’t know what our International Motor show do.
I wish our bashers dun bring fake news each time
Basher john has retired I think since May 9th
And basher Kunta change name to Andrew. You think we dont know?
He needs to find the missing chocolate first or did he ate it?
poor basher john, no more job anymore
Face→mirror
KLIMS doesnt bring cars in for display.. it is up to the Car company who is participating in the show. The show is an empty shell, content comes from the various participating companies.. in this case porsche malaysia.. if they wish to display this car.. it is porsche malaysia who must come out with their own money, to bring the car here..
That was a scary fast lap. Kudos to both man and machine. However, the official time is still the one by Bellof correct, as it was timed by the FIA? Haven’t heard Bellof’s name in a long time. Probably could’ve been a race winner and maybe even world champion in F1 too.
No idea if there is an OFFICIAL vs UNOFFICIAL lap record but the fact is, Bellof’s time was recorded during qualifying at a race weekend with other competitor cars around him also going flat out. Timo Bernhard had the track to himself and ran a car that was did not comply to any racing series regulations. Imagine how fast the 956C would have gone if Bellof had been able to run the car with no limit to turbo boost and knowing that he would out on the track alone? So rather than this record showing how fast a 919 Hybrid WEC car can be when unhindered it reinforces how cutting edge the 956 was in terms of ground effect and what a special talent Stefan Bellof was as a driver. He could very well have been Schumacher before Schumacher.
Maybe so, but toyota hybrid won the 24 hour le mans just a few weeks ago.
…in a 2 car race where the only real competition for victory was the other Toyota Hybrid. A win is a win but winning against yourself and winning against other factory teams are very different.
toyota won because the german companies did not compete .