Radical SR3 RS & SR8 track day supercars

I’m all for safe driving, but our maximum legal speed limit in Australia is considered dangerously slow in many sections of Germany’s high-speed autobahn system.

By Anthony Crawford
And no, I’m not trying to be funny either we have absolute proof of how dangerous these so-called safe speeds of ours can be over there.

Radical smashes own ‘ring record

Now we are not going to become too involved in recording the breaking of lap records at Germany’s famous Nurburgring north circuit, that 22 kilometres of “Green Hell” that so fascinates car racers, but having reported recently on some record attempts we need to finish it off with this one.

Radical Sportscars has broken its own [...]

Gumpert Apollo Sport annihilates Nurburgring

On August 13, the Gumpert Apollo Sport became the undisputed king of the infamous Nordschliefe track at the Nurburgring in Germany.

That was when 26 year old German driver Florian Gruber, completed the 22.87 kilometre lap in seven minutes 11.57 seconds.

Nissan GT-R lowers ‘ring record – again

The Nissan GT-R, winner of the 2009 World Performance Car of the Year, improved its lap time at the renowned Nurburgring’s Nordschleife circuit, Germany, in late April to 7 minutes 26.70 seconds.

Previous recorded lap times at the ‘ring were:
* 7 minutes 27.56 seconds on April 15, 2009
* 7 minutes 29 in April, 2008
* 7 minutes [...]

Full Throttle: Day 13

Disappointed? Yes. Upset? You betcha. Annoyed? More than slightly. Thirteen is an unlucky number, isn’t it? Today was the day we handed back the keys to the TechArt Porsche GTsport and GTstreetRS.

But not before a few good mashings of the throttle. Yesterday saw us powersliding across a 100m wide runway, a day I don’t think [...]

New variants for Nissan GT-R?

Nissan’s chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno has confirmed that another high performance version of the GT-R is in the pipeline for future production.

During track testings for the newly released GT-R SpecV, Mr Mizuno explained that a more powerful, performance-honed GT-R is in development for release to the public.