Porsche Taycan Turbo S Sets the Fastest EV Lap Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta

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Published on December 14, 2020 8:45:23 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_wjVifWecQ

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Clearly, Porsche likes setting records. Nordschleife lap times? Of course! But also other track’s lap records, fastest time in a slalom, and longest held drift in an EV. And now, an EV lap record at Road Atlanta, the racetrack an hour outside of Atlanta Georgia and home to the Petit Le Mans IMSA race.

This particular record took place in a Taycan Turbo S in early November, 2020 with pro driver Leh Keen behind the wheel. Porsche kept standard issue, 21-inch Pirelli P Zero NF0 Elect tires mounted, 265/35R21s in front and 305/30R21s in back. Tire pressure was set to 41 pounds per square inch when hot.

And Porsche recorded the lap time for our viewing pleasure. In the video you can see Keen lean on the Taycan’s various systems, including rear-wheel steering, active anti-roll bars, adaptive air suspension, and definitely the torque vectoring system, as the rear end of Taycan does a fair bit of sliding. After all, Keen has 617 horsepower in his right foot’s control. Were it a drag race, he’d have 751 with launch control.

What you don’t hear is any combustion. It’s surreal and unsettling. The Taycan just whirrs its way to well north of 100 mph, making little more noise than you would heading to the grocery store in one. Well, unless you don’t make the tires scream as you race to find the nearest parking spot, in that case Keen’s Taycan is a bit noisier in the corners.

The feat of Porsche’s Taycan isn’t wholesale impressive, the GT2 RS holds the production-car record around Road Atlanta and laps the track nine seconds faster. But Porsche’s EV achievement is an important milestone and another step towards general EV acceptance.

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