Photo by Linhbergh Nguyen of Speedhunters.com. I’ve always loved this shot. Darth Vader and the Atom go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Celebrating the 50th running of the Chevrolet Corvette at Le Mans, utmost anticipation set the stage for a historic running of the 24 hour race.

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Turn up the volume, enjoy the cinematography, and most of all, remember the Honda NSX.

So the Pagani Zonda R isn’t quite a street car. It’s not quite a race car either. Kind of like the Ferrari 599XX and the Radical SR8LM. Only it’s not. It’s faster. It’s sexier. The sounds from the exhaust are out of this world. And it laps the ever famous Nurburgring in a blistering six minutes and forty-seven seconds. That’s eleven seconds faster than Ferrari’s self proclaimed “fastest production derived” car (the 599XX). What’s it take to do such damage in a Zonda R? How about a Mercedes-Benz AMG v12 producing 750hp in a full carbon chassis weighing just 2358 lbs. And one more secret Pagani had up their sleeve…

Pagani was clever – they hired Marc Basseng for their excursion. Marc is a driver with a load of experience at the Nurburgring and from EVO reports, he figures there may still be six seconds left on the table. 6′40″ from Pagani’s Zonda R! Take that Italy…errr Ferrari!