Yahoo Autos 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series takes the Nurburgring record from Lamborghini
Last month, the person behind a YouTube Nürburgring channel caught the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series running at the famous racetrack, and estimated that it had set a new record time. And that estimate was nearly spot-on. The German automaker announced today that it had indeed captured the production car lap record with a time of 6:43.616 for the traditional 12.8-mile stretch of the track.
That time edges out the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ by 1.35 seconds, in a car with 40 fewer horsepower and a front-engine placement. Mercedes also set a time for the slightly longer, full-length stretch of 12.944 miles established by the racetrack management in 2019. That time was 6:48.047. As Mercedes explains, the 12.8-mile measurement that has been used by automakers so far has been a few hundred feet short of a complete lap, and was based on a magazine's test criteria.
