Then determine the correct engine capacity, complete the entry form and come racing. The answers to these questions will lead you to the correct competition class. Is it two-wheel drive or all-wheel drive? Is your vehicle a production car, a low volume exotic, an open wheeler, an individually constructed car or other purpose built race car?Ģ. VW did it with a weight “under 2,500 lbs”, two electric motors capable of “680 hp and 479 lb-ft of torque, giving it a 0-60 time of 2.25 seconds,” and a 43 kWh battery pack.1. It requires the right balance of power, energy capacity, and weight. The 12.4-mile route starts at just above 9,000 feet and climbs to the summit at 14,115 feet above sea level. I am incredibly proud to have been a part of it.” Not only did we get the desired result, but the team spirit was also spot on. The team did an indescribably meticulous, yet at the same time relaxed, job. The electric drivetrain means that many things are different and I learned a lot during the project. R Pikes Peak is the most impressive car I have ever driven in competition. I still cannot believe that Volkswagen and my name are behind this incredible time. That everything ran so smoothly is an incredible feeling, and the new record on Pikes Peak is the icing on the cake. For it to come off, everything had to come together perfectly – from the technology to the driver. Since this week’s tests, we have known that it was possible to break the all-time record. “Awesome! We exceeded even our own high expectations with that result. R Pikes Peak vehicle during the record run. Now it looks like both of those records now belong to Volkswagen and Romain Dumas, who drove the I.D. It’s impressive because VW was actually going for the record in the electric prototype class, which currently stands at 8:57.118 minutes, set in 2016 by New Zealand’s Rhys Millen. R Pikes Peak did the climb in 7:57 – beating the previous record of 8:13 set by none other than Sébastien Loeb in a Peugeot 208 T16 back in 2013. VW’s all-electric race car custom-built for the race just broke the overall record at the official Pikes Peak hill climb today.Īll the times will become official tomorrow, but the Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak’s impressive results in the qualifying round of the famous hill climb race was not a fluke.
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