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Sport Auto

Editor-in-Chief	Horst von Saurma
Categories	Newsmagazine
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	59,800 / month
Publisher	Motor Presse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG
First issue	1969
Country	Germany
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 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.

Racing participation

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.

Supertest Nordschleife

During the 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:

• The first is 3,850 m (2.4 mi)
• The second is 4,235 m (2.6 mi)
• The third is 4,825 m (3.0 mi)
• The fourth is 4,846 m (3.0 mi)
• The fifth is 2,844 m (1.8 mi)
• The total is 20,600 m (12.800 mi)

In recent tests, about 33 numbers are reported to judge a cars performance on various points of a Ring lap: speeds, braking deceleration and lateral g-forces.

The Supertest driver is almost always editor-in-chief Horst von Saurma. Full sortable list provided online.

5 Supersportler auf der Nordschleife

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.

See also

• Nordschleife fastest lap times

References

1. With Honda NSX in 2003
2. http://www.sportauto-online.de/aktuell_U_sport/On-Line/hxcms_article_%20%20502725_14653.hbs
3. SUPERTEST Porsche Carrera GT: Lustwaffe
4. SUPERTEST Porsche 911 GT2: Im Grinsbereich
5. SUPERTEST Pagani Zonda F: Zonda-Wünsche
6. SUPERTEST Koenigsegg CCR: Heute ein Koenig
7. sportauto - Supertest (02/2008)
8. sport auto 07/08
9. SUPERTEST TechArt GTstreet: Grüne Hölle
10. Sport Auto
11. http://www.sportauto-online.de/test_U_technik/fahrberichte/hxcms_article_517606_14469.hbs
12. Evo Magazine, Discussion - Evo article

External links

• Website
• market share (motor presse stuttgart)

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