The Nürburgring Nordschleife: 12.9-miles and 154 corners of tarmac that undulates its way deep in the Eifel mountains. Its constant changes in gradient and articulation make it one of the world’s most challenging circuits – a perfect place to test performance cars, and more recently a place to break records in the world’s fastest cars. It’s an amazing place, and with manufacturers fighting amongst themselves to break the sacred lap record, we’ve run down the top ten fastest of all time.
Though it’s far from an objective indicator of a car’s overall performance, there’s no denying that a machine with a Nürburgring lap record earns a level of respect from any enthusiast. As a symbol of pride then, not to mention a very useful marketing tool, the ‘Ring remains king.