Seven minutes seems a rather long time, it is a rather long time in fact. I mean, siting back in your chair and doing nothing else than looking at a clock for 7 minutes will confirm this. It is a monumentally boring amount of time. If you have nothing else to do that is. Imagine for a moment though you’re driving a 900bhp car around the Nürburgring track in Germany. You will find that time flies. The car flies physically at several moments too in fact, courtesy of the tracks’ numerous dips and crests. Recently, the 903bhp McLaren P1 hybrid-hypercar lapped the 22.8km Nordschleife part of the ‘Ring in a reported 6:47min. With that it has smashed the recent time set by Porsche’s new hypercar, the 918 Spyder. The hybrid powered Porsche lapped the track in 6:57min.

Over the last few years production cars have come closer and closer to the incredible lap records set by proper race cars in the power crazed 80s. Truth to be told, production cars are still way off the lap record set by German race driver Stefan Bellof in 1983. Driving his Porsche 956 sports car he timed a lap of 6:11min in a qualifying session for an endurance race. It was never repeated or improved upon (chiefly because the Nordschleife closed for most racing in the mid-80s).

Via: YT McLaren Automotive.