Porsche's 911 GT2 RS has set another production-car lap record at Road America, a 4.0-mile circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

The 2:15.17 hot lap was set by Porsche factory driver David Donohue.

Both Porsche and the Donohue family have a history at this track, as David's late father, Mark, drove a Porsche 917/30 race car there in the 1970s.

Porsche claims to have set another production-car lap record with its 700-hp 911 GT2 RS. This time the track is Road America, the storied 14-turn challenge in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, that hosted the SCCA runoffs from 2009 to 2013 and is set to host again in 2020. Just last month, the German manufacturer known for its rear-engined racers accomplished the same feat at Road Atlanta.

Setting the very quick time of 2:15.17 around the 4.0-mile track was Porsche factory driver David Donohue, who was said to have set the time in just a few laps with the approachable 911. We're not surprised by this in the least, seeing as the GT2 RS holds the top position at our annual Lightning Lap shootout of the hottest sporting machines.

In August 1973, Porsche, Road America, and a different Donohue—David's late father, Mark—combined for another record of sorts. During practice at that year's Can-Am race, Mark piloted a Porsche 917/30, the 1580-hp monster that caused the end of awesome limited-rules racing series, to a blistering lap of 1:57.52 around Road America. While modern race cars easily eclipse that lap, it is interesting enough that further down the field of that '73 series were some customer teams that managed laps of Road America slower than what the streetgoing GT2 RS is capable of.

Porsche had better keep setting these records, because there are a slew of production cars either already out or soon to be out—including the McLaren Senna, the Mercedes-AMG One, and Aston Martin Valkyrie—that are effectively going to shatter every record and give Porsche a taste of its own 917/30 medicine. Porsche won't take it sitting down. We are sure there is some sort of 918 Spyder successor in the works.

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