On April 16 the Porsche 911 GT3 RS set another benchmark for road-approved sports cars at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit in Germany: Porsche works race driver Kévin Estre set a lap time in 6:56.4 minutes with the 520-hp GT3 RS. The Frenchman’s lap time was 24 seconds faster than the best time achieved with the previous GT3 RS model. [...]

Regardless of its real-world importance or relevance, kudos to Porsche for continuing to blow minds with each generation and subsequent iteration of its sportscars.

Don't miss the short prologue video either.

Ride onboard with Timo Bernhard as he laps the Circuit of the Americas in his Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 at night. Incredible speed.

via WTF1

Ride along with Pirelli test driver Marco Mapelli as he clocks a heroic 6:59 around the Nürburgring behind the wheel of Lamborghini's latest V12 rocketship, the Aventator LP 750-4 SV.

Talk about commitment.

Watch the lunacy that is Koenigsegg's One:1 hypercar thumping in a blisteringly quick and rather dirty lap of Spa.

Quick because it stopped the clocks at 2:32.14, besting the previous 2:38 road-legal production car record as well as Koenigsegg's own previous 2:33.16 best in the same car just a month earlier.

Dirty because it looks as though this lap was set at an open track day, with lots of other slow moving objects to negotiate. And the small matter of that large stone chip right in the middle of the screen. Plus the video's description mentions the main in-car camera was not working, hence the low-res backup footage we see here.

Re-run soon?

via Goodwood Road & Racing

*[PS]: Metric Horsepower

Goodwood Road & Racing share a fantastic lap of the classic -- and chicane free -- Le Mans circuit, onboard Jurgen Barth's 1977 race-winning Martini Porsche 936.

After a lengthy restoration, the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hour winning Mazda 787B returns to La Sarthe, twenty years after its historic victory.

Driven in anger once again by the man who took the one and only Le Mans victory by a rotary-powered car, Johnny Herbert.

Ride alongside Marc Lieb as he clocks an epic 6m57s lap around the Nürburgring behind the wheel of Porsche's new 918 Spyder.