CGX car nut:
Whoopsy:
Enmanuel:
Can you believe that in 2010 you needed a 997.2 GT3 RS to get that time? No matter where you stand on EV, achieving this on a 5,100 pound electric sedan is impressive.
What's wild is that he could have gone even faster.
There are a quite a few sections where he is just coasting, neither on the gas or the brake. Time lost.
Thermal management strategy?
Nah. Lars isn't driving 10/10th. 8th/10th maybe. The car never even got close to out of shape for the whole lap. The coasting are mostly on the early part of the lap. More like he had a target time to do and he was ahead on the delta.
Thermal would never been an issue for a Taycan on the Ring, Porsche had done hundreds if not thousands of laps on the Ring testing, they would have jacked up the cooling even before production. Neither would be brake cooling, those powerful regeneration braking soaked up most of the energy before it even got to those gigantic ceramic brakes, they aren't even being stressed one bit.
A comparable Plaid would have been handling and braking limited. The brakes were already cooked before the end of the lap as it's doing the majority of the work, Ceramic or whatever Elon 'promised' wouldn't have help as it's still cooling limited. Tesla brakes are designed for slowing the car down after a drag strip run, not for repeated heavy braking.
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