Here's The Insane Aerial Footage Of VW's Pikes Peak Record Run
A couple of weeks ago we were able to bring you limited roadside footage of Volkswagen’s ID R electric racer absolutely smashing the previous Pikes Peak course record by 16 seconds. Now we can bring you the full thing – from the air.
The sound was clearly filmed from the car and then mixed with the aerial footage, but it seems like it’s out of sync so don’t pay too much attention to it. It doesn’t really sound all that good most of the time anyway.
The sheer speed of the purpose-built racer, though, as it climbs the hill through the forest and the many hairpins that come afterwards, is something to behold. The movement of the helicopter partly disguises it, but at times you can see the ridiculous cornering velocities on tap. Go get a drink, sit down and enjoy.
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I know the Porsche 919 EVO is a hybrid track car so it wouldn’t be nearly as effective as this full electric car, but I wonder if it would be feasible for it to attempt pikes peak
Wouldn’t see why not. Certainly needs some tweaks and possibly a different steering rack to cope with hairpins but other than that, it’s a car, and this is a road… so.
The 919 evo is more than a match to the ID R . It may be hybrid but it’s NOT slower than the ID R
Good god this thing is loud but that cornering!
Who needs Diesel, TIE Fighter engines are where it’s at now.
The best thing about electric cars is that we finally have vehicles that sound like TIE fighters
All EVs should be TIE fighter loud at least on the outside.
Now if roadgoing EV’s were this loud there would be no need for those sound generator things
That’s the fastest mosquito I’ve ever seen!!!
It knew where to go due to being able to find the check engine light.
Man, If Bugatti attempted this with its new track-biased cardboard the idr would be destroyed
very very impressive.
also, read the facebook comments on this post. it’s atrocious and full of toxicity and negativity, and fools claiming turbo lag is a desirable trait. SMH
It certainly is exiting, so i can see why it is
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