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 journalists usually enter VLN and 24 Hours Nürburgring races, in cooperation with Honda or Aston Martin.
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.
[8] 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.