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Confirmed: Porsche 911 GT2 will do the Nurburgring in 7:31

Confirmed: Porsche 911 GT2 will do the Nurburgring in 7:31

Ralph Hanson September 13th, 2007 Ralph Hanson By Ralph Hanson Author September 13th, 2007
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December 31st, 1969 The new 911 GT2 is fast. How fast? When we reported that it would lap the famed Nordschleife circuit in just 7 minutes and 32 seconds many of our regular readers expressed their disbelief and doubt. The image came from a leaked brochure but we were unable to get official confirmation on this. Well, doubt no more. Our friends over at Auto Motor & Sport Sweden recently interviewed Porsche test driver and rally god Walter Röhrl, who discusses his experience with the new supercar. He claims he has done the Nordschleife in an incredible 7:31m, even faster than the factory figure we provided. Röhrl also goes on to say the GT2 is so fast that even he’s sometimes scared of its power and that despite being RWD only (the Turbo is AWD) it’s still able to put down all of its 530hp effectively. Click here for our original write-up of the GT2 and here for a video of the car on the road and track.
Confirmed: Porsche 911 GT2 will do the Nurburgring in 7:31

Confirmed: Porsche 911 GT2 will do the Nurburgring in 7:31

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The new 911 GT2 is fast. How fast? When we reported that it would lap the famed Nordschleife circuit in just 7 minutes and 32 seconds many of our regular readers expressed their disbelief and doubt. The image came from a leaked brochure but we were unable to get official confirmation on this.

Well, doubt no more. Our friends over at Auto Motor & Sport Sweden recently interviewed Porsche test driver and rally god Walter Röhrl, who discusses his experience with the new supercar. He claims he has done the Nordschleife in an incredible 7:31m, even faster than the factory figure we provided. Röhrl also goes on to say the GT2 is so fast that even he’s sometimes scared of its power and that despite being RWD only (the Turbo is AWD) it’s still able to put down all of its 530hp effectively.

Click here for our original write-up of the GT2 and here for a video of the car on the road and track.

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  1. By biturbo #1, Posted: 9/13/2007

    Short of something from Porsche I still don't believe it.
    What's next, an interview in Japanese? 7:30? :)

    Don't get me wrong, the GT2 can do that time, but I just cannot take rumors and private interviews in obscure languages as facts.

    Why Porsche is not publishing anything?

  2. By admin #2, Posted: 9/13/2007

    Obscure languages? It's in English. Straight from the horse's mouth.

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