NÜRBURG: Lamborghini has set a new lap record at the Nürburgring with its new SVJ version of the Aventador.

There are many different Nürburgring lap records, so this doesn’t mean the Aventador SVJ is the fastest car ever to go round the ‘Ring. Even so, it’s still something to be proud of, for the iconic Italian manufacturer to be able to claim the Aventador SVJ is the fastest production car ever to go around the legendary track.

Lamborghini has reclaimed this particular record after the Huracán Performante was usurped last year by the Nio EP9.  Nio will now be keen to try to reclaim the record, but for the moment at least, Lamborghini has the crown. But although the production car lap record is impressive as it now stands at six minutes, 44.97 seconds, it’s still a long way off the overall lap record.

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Porsche set a new benchmark with its 919 Hybrid Evo. That model is an unrestricted version of its Le Mans prototype race car, and the time it set is almost a minute and a half faster than the Aventador SVJ at an astonishing 5:19.546.

To reach the speeds and performance needed to set the production car record, Lamborghini carried out a complete aerodynamic overhaul of the Aventador to come up with the SVJ. Compared to the standard car, the SVJ features a deeper front wing, wider side skirts, motorsport-style single centre wheel nuts, as well as Lamborghini’s ALA 2.0 active aerodynamics system.

The already-gaping air intakes of the Aventador also appear to have been increased in size on the Super Veloce Jota version, which allows even more air to the 6.5-litre V-12 engine that ups the Aventador SV’s 730bhp output to somewhere around 760bhp at the 9,000rpm maximum.