It took 20 years to interrupt the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb report. And it occurred twice in the identical weekend.
The new report holder is Volkswagen’s ID R electrical race automobile. The automobile, pushed by driver Romain Dumas, broke the report by finishing the 1.86-kilometer monitor (1.15 miles) at Goodwood within the south of England in 41.18 seconds. Dumas then broke his personal report the next day by finishing the monitor in 39.90 seconds.
The earlier report on the well-known hillclimb was set in 1999 by Nick Heidfeld who was driving a 780-horsepower McLaren-Mercedes MP4/13 with a combustion engine. Heidfeld accomplished the run in 41.6 seconds.
The Volkswagen ID R (and Dumas) has been on a tear as of late setting information at Nürburgring-Nordschleife and Pikes Peak. The ID R set a brand new electrical automobile lap report at Nürburgring-Nordschleife by finishing the course in 6:05.336 minutes. The earlier report was set in 2017 by Peter Dumbreck, who was driving a Nio electrical automobile.
The Volkswagen ID R was modified to finest swimsuit the Goodwood hill climb. A automobile was outfitted with a smaller battery, which helped scale back the burden, and the facility output was optimized for the quick dash. A drag discount system designed for high-speed sections of the Nürburgring.
Why does all of this matter? This race automobile is a testbed and a flagship for Volkswagen’s ID electrical automobile platform.
Volkswagen has been displaying off its ID line of idea electrical automobiles for a number of years. The firm is making ready a few of them for manufacturing, starting with the ID.3. VW goals to promote 100,000 ID.Three automobiles yearly.
The ID.Three hatchback is the primary mannequin to be constructed on the automaker’s new Modular Electric Drive Toolkit, or MEB, electric-car structure. Introduced in 2016, MEB is a versatile modular system — actually a matrix of frequent components — for producing electrical automobiles that VW says makes it extra environment friendly and cost-effective.
Others will quickly comply with. VW plans to have a portfolio of greater than 20 full-electric fashions. The automaker’s aim is to promote 1 million electrical automobiles yearly by 2025.
