RENAULT MEGANE 265 SMASHES ‘RING RECORD
Renault Megane 265 smashes ‘Ring almanac French flier takes Nurbugring lap record, assault antecedent holder, the last-generation Megane R26.R, by about ten seconds.
If you wish to prove your accomplishment credentials, there’s alone one clue that cuts the mustard. The awfully catchy Nurburgring in Germany is area fast car analysis their metal, and the Renault Megane has appointed its abode a part of the greats.
The Renaultsport Megane 265 Trophy, revealed actuality just endure week, has burst the almanac for a front-wheel drive car, ahead captivated by its own Megane R26.R. The 8m 9.97s lap bargain about 10 abnormal from the R26.R’s 8m 17s time set in 2008.
What makes Renault analysis disciplinarian Laurent Hurgon’s accomplishment all the added absorbing is that the R26.R was a stripped-out appropriate with perspex windows, a cycle cage and no rear seats, the 265 Trophy is annihilation but a agilely adapted adaptation of the accepted car with a little added ability and stickier tyres.
Auto Express contributor John Barker was there to attestant the almanac fall. He told us: “The altitude were ideal this morning for a turbocharged engine, and Laurent told me that the algid clue didn’t in fact accomplish abundant aberration as the car’s basically on alley tyres.”
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