Re: Tesla
Topspeed:Whoopsy:https://www.instagram.com/p/CUg5TumlSG5/
Here is something a bit unfortunate for a Plaid.
Someone took it to Spring Mountain and tracked it.
Hit the wall at 140mph when the brakes failed after 3.5 laps.
Giant horsepower number plus heavy weight needs big brakes, Plaid didn't have one that's big enough.
So, it failed after 3,25 laps on a 2.1mile track. So it failed after about 6.8mi(11 km).
Nordschleife is 20.832km. I'm sure the Plaid in the record had stock brakes
It doesn't count like that.
The Ring is long but there are long stretches between braking and lots of time for air to cool brakes. and A lot fo the corners aren't heavy braking ones.
Plaid's brake was good enough for one lap of the Ring. Give Tesla some credits, they been camping at the Ring for 2 years now just to prove they can do one lap without failing. They succeeded. and the Tesla people there are actually quite humble and are willing to listen to advices around the paddock.
On a normal circuit corners come at you hard and fast lap after lap. The demand is different. Tesla will need to up size the brakes and also open more brake cooling holes. Especially when their brakes carry the full load of braking duties as they don't rely on regen braking. In Porsche's hybrids the brakes only do less than 1g of braking duties, the rest is taken up by the regen part which absorbs the initial 0.3-0.4g.
--