Claas Xerion 5000 Trac VC: Wir fahren Nordschleife!
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6-cylinder engine with… 12.8 liters of displacement, more than 500 hp, 2300 Nm of torque!
These are the characteristics of the agricultural monster that is the Claas Xerion 5000, a tractor Made in Germany.
And the craziest thing is that the German driver Christian Menzel has decided to set the lap record on the Nürburgring circuit on board.
Obviously, things are not going very quickly - the tractor is limited to 55 km / h - but the machine shows astonishing behavior despite its 16 tonnes empty!
The magazine Auto Motor und Sport made a video of this record which still requires good driving skills… and a big dose of courage!
The "serious" things start at minute 7 of the video.
It's in German of course, but you don't have to know Goethe's language to see that throughout the lap, the pilot's face hesitates between amusement and "But why am I doing this?".
Coquasse.
FYI, this jewel of technology completed the approximately 20 km of the Nordschleife in 24 min 50 s 57. That is a little more than the absolute record set by the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, in 5 min 19 s 546.
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