{"id":11394,"date":"2018-09-20T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2018-09-20T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:42:47","slug":"hire-van-sets-new-lap-record-at-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/11394","title":{"rendered":"Hire van sets new lap record at N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11395\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11395\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"VW Transporter at Nurburging\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-1-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-1-sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-1-sm-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-1-sm-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Austin&#8217;s stock Volkswagen Transporter hire van has set a new unofficial lap record of the Nurburgring<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A standard production model Volkswagen Transporter supplied by Northgate Vehicle Hire has set a new unofficial lap record around the legendary\u00a0N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife race circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The van was piloted by British Touring Car driver Rob Austin, who is normally found behind the wheel of a highly-tuned Alfa Romeo Giulietta.<\/p>\n<p>Rob took some time off his day job to try and beat 10 minute 8 second time set by German racer Sabine Schmitz in a Ford Transit for Top Gear in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Northgate VW Transporter at Nurburgring\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-2-sm.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-2-sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-2-sm-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/northgate-nurburgring-van-2-sm-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rob succeeded and clocked up a 9m58s lap, setting an unofficial new record:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDExYy0gEzo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, this is a record for a standard van. But I do remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4837\">back in 2013<\/a>, tuning firm Revo souped up an earlier VW Transporter and squeezed out a 9 minute 57 second lap at the &#8216;Ring:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5kwkTipAgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, no discussions of &#8216;Ring lap records in vans would be complete without including footage of Sabine Schmitz&#8217;s legendary 2005 lap for Top Gear, which she completed in 10m 8s in a rather slower Ford Transit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KiC03_wVjc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to love the footage of a Transit van passing fast cars and motorbikes on the Nurburging. Just goes to show that most of the time, speed is about the driver, not the vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standard Volkswagen Transporter supplied by Northgate van hire has set a new unofficial Nurburging lap record in the hands of BTCC ace Rob Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1746,2163,2164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11398,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/11398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}