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1. Scott Says:
   June 7th, 2009 at 8:59 am

   Some video footage of Walter Röhrl casually putting down a 7 minute 25 second lap around the ring. We suspect he’s had some practice. Here’s what the videographer had to say:

   Walter & I: in-car camera of the best race track in the world: the Nürburgring Nordschleife with the man who o.k.’s every new Porsche that leaves the Porsche factories.
   If you do not know who Walter Röhrl is, just google him. Nuff said.
   This was a childhood dream come true. I never expected to ever meet the man, much less to spend a lap with him on his playground.
   I have done everything, I ever wanted to do in my life.

   for all the experts out there who have been at the ring:
   we did a timed lap of about 7:25 minutes. I substracted about 6 seconds for the traffic we hit and the delayed acceleration after the bilstein bridge. At Schwedenkreuz we hit 260 kph right before the 100kph turn into Aremberg. at the end of Fuchsröhre we hit 240kph.
   The funny thing is, I was wearing a helmet, he was not…

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