Sport auto (Germany)
| Editor-in-Chief | Marcus Schurig (since 1 March 2013) |
|---|---|
| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 59,800 |
| Publisher | Motor Presse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG |
| Year founded | 1969 |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Stuttgart |
| Language | German |
| Website | sportauto-online.de |
| ISSN | 1158-2111 |
sport auto is a German automobile magazine, established in 1969, published monthly by Motor Presse Stuttgart, based in Stuttgart.
The magazine publishes its "Supertest" of cars, featuring the laptime (usually driven by the former editor-in-chief Horst von Saurma) at the Nordschleife. The magazine also runs a challenge for the fastest lap time driven with a car that is road legal (TÜV) and registered in Germany. The road legality rule also applies for the tires.
The journalists usually enter VLN and 24 Hours Nürburgring races, in cooperation with Honda or Aston Martin. Results are mixed, they caused at least two crashes.
In 1995, the magazine introduced a Nordschleife lap record challenge for the fastest lap time driven with a car that is road legal, having passed German TÜV and is registered in Germany. The road legality rule also applies for the tires. After the trophy had been given to Blitz, a Japanese tuning parts company in 1997, sport auto editor Horst v. Saurma regained the record in 1999. After the sport auto record was lowered to 7:14 in 2005, sport auto has announced to introduce rules according to their Hockenheimring-based Tuner GP event. In 2005, sport auto has also clocked a 6:55 for a UK-registered Radical SR8 which is not eligible to sport auto's ranking.
In 2008, five super sports cars owned by an enthusiast were compared by Porsche factory driver Marc Basseng, winner of several VLN races in Porsche GT3 RSR. Timing was provided by sport auto as in a Supertest. The results were also reported elsewhere.
During the industry testing sessions in which sport auto records its "Supertest", the track can not be traveled at full speed past "Tribüne 13" (T13, grandstand 13) in order to allow safe access from the old exit/entrance there. The missing 232 m (761 ft) uphill section, from a slow right hand corner, would take in average an extra 7 s compared to a full lap.
There are 5 sections on the 20,600 m (67,600 ft) long Supertest-Nordschleife:
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