Porsche Taycan breaks Guinness record with fastest indoor drive

The fastest record running in the building is 165.1km / h

There are various Guinness records, but recently Porsche has alsoPorsche Taycan sets Guinness record with longest driftWhat were you doing?

And again, this time as well, Taycan set a new Guinness record, but at first I thought that this challenge itself was "Why do you do that?"

Because it is "a record of top speed that I was able to set when running in the building".

When I first saw it, I wondered, "Why do I have to run inside the building?"

The details of the challenge of "the fastest indoor record" that achieved Guinness World Records certification this time are as follows:

• Driving location: Exhibition Hall (Exhibition Hall) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
• Driver: Leh Keen
• Vehicle used: Porsche Taycan Turbo S
• Fastest record: 165.1 km / h

I wondered if Porsche would set the fastest record in the building by trying something that no one had done yet and trying to make more and more Guinness records. However, in fact, it seems that this challenge has already been done from the past, and the record so far is "138.4 km".

* According to the official Porsche news release, it was stated that it was 138.4 km, but according to the information from other media below, the record so far was 140 km, so I do not know which is correct.

It seems that the rules set by Guinness are quite strict:

• Everything needs to be done inside the building
• Start from a completely stopped state, and stop until a complete stop
• If there is no safety net, the door must be closed so there is no escape to the outside

something like.

Indeed, unlike running on a wide circuit outside, everything has to be accelerated inside the building without being completely closed and running from the outside, or running outside at the end.

With that in mind, in addition to the momentary acceleration from the stop, the car must be able to make a full stop with confidence between the maximum acceleration and heading to the wall, so the performance of the car is actually very high. I realized that it was an important challenge ^^

Challenge that was possible only because of Taycan Turbo S

And considering this requirement, it is understandable that Porsche thought, "It's only the Taycan Turbo S anymore."

With the Taycan Turbo S, you can secure the maximum grip because it is all-wheel drive, and the acceleration is 0-100km in 2.8 seconds, and it is a very powerful carbon ceramic brake (PCCB)! !!

It seems that it was difficult to choose the place for this challenge. In the first place, it is difficult in a narrow place or a place where a straight line distance cannot be taken.

The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in the chosen New Orleans is a little over a million square feet and is home to the largest exhibition hall in the United States.

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But after all it is an indoor exhibition hall, so the road surface where Taycan runs ... No, the floor is so-called polished concrete, and when you run at high speed it is like running on ice It was said that there was.

In fact, this time's driver, Keen, also said, "I didn't understand the difficulty of this challenge until I first tried it."

When I actually ran, the surface of the indoor floor was unpredictable, very slippery, and really icy.

What's more, it accelerates toward a hard wall indoors, and even if it looks wide at first glance like the place I tried this time, it looks like a very small space when I actually run. It seems to be.

That's right, for example, just thinking about full acceleration from end to end in the exhibition hall of Tokyo Big Sight or Makuhari Messe toward the wall with Porsche, and finally full braking toward the approaching wall ... I don't want to do it ~ ^^

Still, after actually trying to set this record, Keen said, "I felt that the Taycan system understood the current situation and kept it running straight anyway, on an unstable floor. I couldn't believe I could run on this tremendous acceleration. "

Why did you run without the lights on

By the way, did you notice? ??

When I saw these photos, I thought, "What?" What I thought was, "Why did you run without the lights on?"

Actually, it seems that there was a rule from Guinness that "use a homologation model should not be used" when taking on this challenge, so in order to "make this Taycan Turbo S not a homologation model", remove the headlights It seems to be. Eh, is that all right (laughs)?

Well, anyway, that's why the light wasn't turned on (I mean, the light itself isn't there!) ^^

Guinness World Records so far

By the way, until the Guinness record of 165.1 km / h of the Taycan Turbo S was updated this time, it seems that the record so far was held for 7 years. After all it is a matter of place and car to challenge.

The Guinness-certified record in the past was set by Tanner Foust in 2011 as a top gear show by the Ford Fiesta Rallycross (which seems to be ridiculously expensive), achieving 140km / h with this 560hp car. * Values based on Motor 1 media information.

After that, in 2013, Mikko Hirvonen achieved a speed of 140 km / h using a cross cart using Suzuki's motorcycle engine, which weighs only 312 kg.

Looking at the details, the 2011 record was 139.98km and the 2013 record was 140km, so Mikko Hirvonen was the record holder so far.

And here is the video when this Taycan Turbo S broke the Guinness record ^ ^ ↓

Source:
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