Lord of the Ring

摘要

TIMO BERNHARD HAS won Le Mans twice, taken the chequered flag at the 12 Hours of Sebring, has stood on the top step of the podium at the 24 Hours of Daytona and is a five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Nurburgring. It's fair to say that he's reasonably handy behind the wheel and has some hair-raising stories of racing at these blue-riband events. But when Wheels caught up with him recently, there was one thing we had to know. What was it like to smash the Nurburgring lap record? Some backstory first. The pre-existing lap record had stood since 1983 when the late and great Stefan Bellof set a mark of 6m11.13s in his Porsche 956 while qualifying for the Nurburgring 1000km. That's an average speed of 202.073km/h. For years, this record seemed unassailable.