Porsche growth driver Lars Kern has outdone himself on the Nurburgring: driving a pre-series Taycan, he posted a lap time of seven:07.55 minutes on the Nordschleife.
This official lap time is a whopping 26 seconds sooner than he was on his final file drive, in a Taycan Turbo S Sport sedan outfitted with the efficiency bundle again in August 2022 and and really shut with the Rimac Nevera’s time of seven:05.298.
“Twenty-six seconds is half an eternity in motorsport. Lars’ lap time of seven:07.55 minutes on the Nordschleife is sensational, placing the Taycan in the identical league as electrical hypercars,” says head of the mannequin line, Kevin Giek. “And the spectacular factor about it’s that over a number of laps, Lars clocked virtually precisely the identical time.”
“I pushed as exhausting as I may, however that was actually all I may do,” says Kern. The Nurburgring-Nordschleife was on the unique disposal of the skilled racer for the day of quick laps. For security causes, the take a look at automotive was outfitted with the legally prescribed roll cage, together with racing bucket seats. In comparison with the 2022 file in a Taycan Turbo S, the instances have been considerably higher: the pre-series automotive was a superb 25 km/h sooner heading into the Schwedenkreuz. As an example the distinction additional, by the point Kern crossed the end line close to Grandstand 13 (T13) this time, he would have solely simply been passing the doorway to the Nordschleife, about to enter the Antoniusbuche part, throughout his file drive within the Taycan Turbo S in 2022. This put the space between the pre-series Taycan and the present Turbo S at greater than 1.3 kilometres – a determine that illustrates the leap in efficiency achieved on the 20.8 km course in Germany’s Eifel area. An onboard video of the entire lap might be printed in mid-March.
Jan 3, 2024