Gumpert Apollo Sport claims new Ring record
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 7m 11.57s was set. According to Sport-Auto the record was previously held by Michael Düchting clocking in 7m 14.89s on a Donkervoort D8 RS06 in November 2005.
The 700 hp of the car is provided by a 4.2L twin-turbo V8 engine supplied by Audi. It propels the Gumpert Apollo from 0 to 124 mph in 8.9 seconds and gives the car a top speed of 225 mph.
Roland Gumpert, a former VW executive, started Gumpert back in 2004 in order to create track-ready supercars that were also street-legal.
