The all-electric Rimac Nevera now as soon as once more holds the crown because the quickest automotive ever to compete in a carwow drag race, a daily function on the world’s largest automotive YouTube channel, specializing in head-to-head races over the quarter-mile and past.
Competing towards a model of the Crimson Bull Racing RB8 – winner of each the System One Driver’s and Constructor’s Championships in 2012 – and the McMurtry Spéirling – the fan-assisted single seater that holds the outright report on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace – the Nevera gained two out of the three standing-start races.
As the one two-seater, and a road-legal GT hypercar, the Nevera is already at a definite drawback. However it was all the time the imaginative and prescient throughout its conception that this automotive not solely be terribly quick in a straight line, but additionally capable of go the gap in supreme consolation, with house for 2 individuals and their baggage.
The Crimson Bull Racing RB8 and McMurtry Spéirling, in the meantime, are devoted track-focused machines, virtually shrink-wrapped across the driver. Each masterpieces of engineering and design, however very single-mounded of their focus.
Within the first run of the day, the Nevera lined-up on one of many UK’s longest runways prepared to say one other report throughout a 12 months of setting new benchmarks. The Nevera has already smashed greater than 20 efficiency data this 12 months alone, together with setting new world-beating occasions for 0-60mph, 0-100mph, and 0-186mph acceleration.
With the McMurtry Spéirling’s energetic aero fan sucking it right down to the highway for final traction and with Crimson Bull Racing reserve driver, Liam Lawson, on the wheel of the RB8 this was set to be the Nevera’s most demanding take a look at but. On the finish of the ‘3-2-1’ countdown the RB8’s V8 engine screamed as Lawson deftly engaged the hand-operated clutch, the Spéirling fired off with the ferocity of a rocket and the Nevera’s unbiased four-wheel-drive – equipped by particular person motors – rigorously allotted the correct quantity of torque to every wheel for the optimum launch.
Though the lighter machine received off the road barely faster, the Nevera instantly reeled them in with its 1,914hp powertrain, ending simply forward of each on the ¼-mile mark. Within the second race, the Spéirling completed first, however the Nevera as soon as once more proved its potential through the last ¼-mile race of the day, and the rolling race from 50mph to ½-mile to grow to be the general champion, and the quickest automotive ever to run in a carwow drag race.
“It’s an honor to line-up towards two genius items of automotive efficiency engineering and much more overwhelming to return out on prime. This result’s due to years of devoted work to make sure that not solely is the Nevera extraordinarily highly effective, however that it’s additionally eminently usable; any certainly one of our house owners might exit tomorrow and do a quarter-mile run quicker than a System One automotive. And with our superior management techniques and car dynamics, we’ve finely tuned the Nevera right into a automotive that’s confidence-inspiring on twisting roads, in addition to extraordinarily fast and thrilling,” stated Mate Rimac Founder and CEO of Rimac Group.
In July, the Nevera took on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace hillclimb for the second time and clocked a blistering 49.32-second time within the Supercar Shootout, making it not solely the quickest electrical manufacturing automotive to sort out the long-lasting twisting hillclimb but additionally the quickest manufacturing automotive of any sort to take action in 2023. Will probably be making extra record-breaking makes an attempt later within the 12 months, too.
“This comparability between three record-breaking vehicles, together with one of the crucial dominant F1 machines of all time, elevated the drag race to unprecedented heights. It was undoubtedly essentially the most thrilling race I’ve ever participated in. Congratulations to the Rimac group,” stated Mat Watson Presenter at carwow.
Aug 6, 2023