Students aim to break Nurburgring Nordschleife record with hybrid electric car

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In 1983, racing car driver Stefan Bellof set a Nürburgring lap time of 6 mins 11 secs in his Porsche 956. This record remains unbroken, despite many attempts to do so by some of the biggest names in the automotive industry using the most stratospherically powerful and technologically advanced cars in the world. Despite all of this, a team of ambitious engineering students from the Netherlands plans not only to beat this record with a hybrid racing prototype of their own design, but to go on to race and win at Le Mans in the very same vehicle... Continue Reading Students aim to break Nurburgring Nordschleife record with hybrid electric car



Section: Automotive



Tags: Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Hybrid, Le Mans, Motorsport, Nurburgring, Racing, Students, Technical University of Eindhoven



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