It was just a few days ago when Glickenhaus' new SCG 003 supercar hit the Nurburgring track for its first ever race of the year. Unfortunately for the Hollywood entrepreneur, both his cars got black-flagged for being too loud. As ludicrous as that may sound, the SCG 003 wouldn't have finished the race anyway, as the VLN event was stopped a few laps later when a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 crashed into a group of spectators, killing one. A case of bad luck? Of course, but the American team just returned to share some amazing news. As it turns out, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus didn't leave the 'Ring after the race, but scheduled a few runs in an attempt to set a new track record. And so it did, as the supercar needed only 6:42 to lap the Nordschleife.
The big announcement came via the company's Instagram account, and although there's no video to back the claim yet, the SCG 033's time is mind-boggling. The American supercar not only smashed the Zonda R's 6:47-minute benchmark, but also demolished the Radical SR8 LM's 6:48-minute lap, the official record for production, street-legal vehicles as of 2015.
Making things that much more amazing is that the SCG 003 is now the fourth-fastest vehicle, be it road-legal, track-only or race car, to ever lap the Nordschleife. The all-time (racing) lap record sits at 6:11.13, as established by Stefan Bellof in a Porsche 956 during qualifying for the 1983 1,000km of Nurburgring.
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SCG003 Smashes Nurburgring Lap Record originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 3 April 2015 19:00 EST.
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