Nismo GT-R is the fastest volume production car around the Nurburgring

With a timing of 7 minutes and 8.679 seconds, the Nismo tuned Nissan GT-R is almost 11 seconds shy of the record set by the groundbreaking Porsche 918 Spyder but six seconds faster than the lap record set by the Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package.

The potent Godzilla was piloted by Michael Krumm, a Nissan racing pilot and test driver. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn proclaimed this is the fastest Nissan GT-R ever.

"With this lap time, we can authoritatively say that the 2014 Nissan GT-R Nismo holds the volume production car lap record at the Nordschliefe, which is the gold standard of high performance achievement," he cited.

Four experienced drivers took turns at the controls of the Nissan GT-R Nismo fitted with track options in the German track on 30^th September, to perform two laps of the Nordschleife (North Loop) each.

They included Infiniti Red Bull Racing's third driver Sebastien Buemi, Nismo global brand ambassador and racer Michael Krumm, German touring car and 'Ring veteran Armin Hahne as well as a Japanese driver, Tetsuya Tanaka, an experienced 'Ring hand, himself.

12 minutes before the Nordschleife was scheduled to close and five minutes before rain began to fall, the last of the four drivers on his last run of the day posted the record time.

Each driver completed two laps and took turns at the wheel, each with a strategy developed from what they learned from the previous driver. The timing was achieved by Michael Krumm on his second attempt - racing into the lap charts - along with posting the record for the fastest-ever time for a factory GT-R on the Nurburgring.

The record run was set after months of testing and tuning that began at the Nurburgring early in the summer and subsequently continued until the last day of September.