The current record is in the "hands" of Lamborghini, with a time of 6min 44.97s achieved by the Aventador SVJ, but the dethroning of the Italian super sports car by the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series , the most extreme of all GT.
Who says this is not Mercedes-AMG, but Misha Charoudin, from the homonymous YouTube channel, who makes the Nürburgring circuit her second home — that's where her company is based, where we can rent cars to experience the “ Green Hell". Do you remember the BMW M4 driven in depth by Kubica? It's his.
It's not the first time he's made predictions of this kind, and he doesn't often fail — he also explains how he gets to the predicted times. It advances with a (cautious) time of 6min43s for the new GT Black Series — he admits it could be even better — which puts the Affalterbach sports car nearly two seconds below the Aventador SVJ:
evidence
Can the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series really beat an “armed to the teeth” supercar like the Aventador SVJ? The evidence says yes. By the way, the GT Black Series is no “greenhouse flower”: the twin-turbo V8 was “pulled” up to 730 hp and the aerodynamic apparatus is worthy of a competition car.
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But the strongest evidence has to do with the time recently hit at the circuit in Hockenheim, Germany, where it left behind machines like the Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR, McLaren 720S and Ferrari 488 Pista. It just didn't manage to overcome McLaren Senna, another monster specialized for the circuit.
The GT Black Series seems to have the right arsenal to thrive in “Green Inferno” and get that 6min43s — we'll have to wait for the official confirmation that should be soon…
We've already “piloted” it
The Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series is a very special machine. It is the sixth model with the Black Series label to come out of AMG's master hands and has proven to be in practice everything it promised on paper.
We were part of a select group that got to experience it in depth on the Lausitzring circuit, Germany, and we were the only ones to bring it to YouTube in Portugal. If you haven't seen Diogo at the controls of this brutal machine, with the right to a lot of interjections, it's something you simply can't miss: