New Megane sets fwd ‘Ring Record

As we reported last week, Renaultsport's newest progeny -- the Mégane RS 265 Trophy -- has broken the lap record set by the Megane R26.R around the Nürburgring, lowering it by just under 9 seconds from 8min 16.9 seconds to 8min 7.97 seconds.

Although it was only officially confirmed this morning, development cars have been lapping the 14.7 mile circuit even quicker in testing. We understand the car was fitted with the standard road car's Bridgestone Potenza RE050A tyres on the Trophy's newly designed 19″ wheels.

with the extra 11kw and bigger rims and street tires you get on the trophy version of the car i ran an 8:34
that's a lot of time difference so do they run a howl lap or do they miss the first sector or some thing like that?


its ok i can take it im slow that's all it is right?

As the full main straight cannot be driven at speed due to the modern exit/entrance there, these laps are usually timed "bridge to gantry", which is only 19.1 km (11.9 mi) and thus about 30 seconds shorter. Additionally, there are two speed limits (one in Breidscheid, and one on "Döttinger Höhe") on tourist days, which also impacts the lap time.





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