The forthcoming Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, which is set to be unveiled later this summer, has just taken the lap record for production cars at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, in a lap time of 6:44.97 minutes.
The camouflaged Aventador SVJ with official Lamborghini driver Marco Mapelli at the helm, took on the lap-time test at the 20.6 km track. The challenge was managed by Lamborghini’s Research and Development team, with tyre support from Pirelli technicians.
Fitted with cameras inside and out and full telemetry, under the formal scrutiny of Remak personnel who managed time and GPS certification using VBOX-Racelogic instrumentation, the lap attempt of the Aventador SVJ was performed during an exclusive session on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
“The Aventador SVJ takes the Jota suffix, following the Lamborghini tradition for denoting a car’s track-focused talent. This new car is the convergence of Lamborghini technologies to produce a super sports car that transcends current performance benchmarks,” says Automobili Lamborghini Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Stefano Domenicali.
“Its tenure as the Nürburgring lap time record holder, even before its unveiling during the Monterey Car Week in California in August, endorses Lamborghini’s competence in applying superlative design engineering and ground-breaking technologies.
The SVJ is a super sports car at the zenith of performance, while also ensuring unrivalled driving pleasure," Domenicali concludes.
“This is another demonstration of the exceptional skills and teamwork by the dedicated personnel within Automobili Lamborghini: from the R&D team, as well as from our test drivers and, of course, partners such as Pirelli,” adds Chief Technical Officer, Maurizio Reggiani.
The Aventador SVJ has been created to feature higher power output than the current models, with further lightweight materials being incorporated to contribute to the model's best-ever weight-to-power ratio of only 1,98 kg/hp.
It features Lamborghini’s patented ALA 2.0 active aerodynamics system with aero vectoring for the best handling and downforce, as well as new aerodynamic features specific to the SVJ.
Development of the car included significant CFD simulation to optimize the ALA performance, with the exceptional downforce requiring an entire rework of the Aventador’s active and passive dynamic systems to exploit the car’s physical boundaries.
Developing ALA strategies for the Aventador SVJ through both static and dynamic virtual simulations, a virtual attempt at the Nürburgring Nordschleife already returned a better lap time than the Lamborghini Huracán Performante.
The set-up of the Aventador SVJ has been entirely re-engineered to enhance its four-wheel drive system, rear-wheel steering and ESC. Significantly stiffer than the Aventador LP 750-4 SV, the steering has been retuned in the SVJ.
The Aventador SVJ features a new specifically-developed Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres as standard however for the lap-time attempt at the Nürburgring Nordschleife the model's optional Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R tyres were mounted instead.
Three years ago the Aventador LP 750-4 SV delivered a sub-seven minute lap time and a year later the Huracán Performante took the Nürburgring Nordschleife production car record, with a lap time of 6:52.01, which it held until September last year. With the new time for the Aventador SVJ it means that Lamborghini sportscars have broken the lap lap record three times between 2015-2018.
Photos: Lamborghini Aventador SVJ
Video: Lamborghini Aventador SVJ at the Nurburgring / Lamborghini Aventador SVJ onboard video of record lap
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