Volkswagen’s electrical ID R race automobile set a brand new Goodwood Hill Climb document – Roadshow

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Volkswagen’s electrical ID R race automobile broke the Goodwood Hill Climb document on Friday, finishing a 41.18-second run up the notorious English circuit. The earlier document of 41.6 seconds was set in 1999, by a McLaren MP4/13.

Driver Romain Dumas was the one who piloted the ID R to this victory, and he is no stranger to record-breaking runs. In 2018, Dumas set the document for electrical automobiles at Goodwood, with a 43.96-second time. Dumas additionally set the general document run on the 2018 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb, although that point was bested this yr by Rhys Millen in a Bentley Continental GT.

The ID R is a totally electrical race automobile. On the time of its Pikes Peak run in 2018, it had a powerful 680 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque, fed by a 43-kilowatt-hour battery pack, with an electrical motor at each axles. On the time, Volkswagen mentioned the ID R might speed up to 60 miles per hour in simply 2.25 seconds, which is critically fast.

Volkswagen says it “opted for a much more aggressive vitality administration technique for the brief distance” on the Goodwood circuit, in line with an announcement. “You want very excessive output for a really brief time for the dash in Goodwood,” mentioned François-Xavier Demaison, Volkswagen Motorsport technical director.

Whether or not or not Volkswagen will have the ability to maintain onto the Goodwood document stays to be seen. However with an increasing number of electrical racers hitting the Goodwood scene annually, we’re certain the competitors will get critically fierce.