Porsche Taycan sets Guinness record with longest drift

Longest drift Guinness record for an electric vehicle

Porsche's proud full electric car, Taycan, is said to have opened up a new era for Porsche in 2019.

Such Taycan is finally!

The day has come to be published in the Guinness World Records ™ (formally established on November 30, 1954, first published in 1955), which is said to have started its history on November 10, 1951. ^ ^

By the way, at the moment, there are more than 53,000 various records in this Guinness record in the database, and it seems that about 8,000 new records are added every year from all over the world.

That's a good number.

World record set at Porsche Center Hockenheimring

The Guinness World Records challenge by Taycan was held at Porsche Center Hockenheimring. A location located in southwestern Germany.

Taycan drift is a drift circle 210 laps, 42.171 km

The world record this time is "Porsche Taycan, which is an electric car, will drift for a long time anyway", and the driver when this record was achieved was Porsche instructor Dennis Retera.

In a drift circle with a length of 200 meters, he achieved 210 laps of drifting without the front wheels turning in the same direction as the curve even once.

It took 55 minutes to continue drifting 210 laps. The total distance is 42.171 km.

Ah. It's delicious. It would have been the same as a full marathon if there was a little more distance! (Isn't it meaningful to have them all together ...)

The average speed of running at this time is 46 km / h.

The rear-wheel drive Porsche Taycan was used

The Taycan used is the rear-wheel drive version of the Taycan sold in China.

According to Mr. Dennis, the driver this time, "When the driving stability program was turned off, the power slide with the electric Porsche was very easy!"

"Especially in this rear-wheel drive model, it's always easier. It's always strong enough, and it has a long wheelbase and a low center of gravity, which gives it stability anyway."

"The perfect design of the chassis and steering gives you perfect control over your car at any time, even when you're moving sideways (drift)!"

Although he talks about drifting Taycan like this, it seems that it was still difficult to maintain concentration for 210 laps.

During 210 laps, the asphalt of the drift circuit had a different grip every week even on any one lap, so he was always concentrating on controlling the drift with steering.

It seems that controlling with the steering is more efficient than controlling with the accelerator pedal and reduces the risk of spinning.

The Guinness World Records certification was made by Joanne Brent, the official Guinness World Records judge.

She has been involved in the Guinness World Records for over five years, she said, "although there have been some drift records, the electric car sports car attempt is very special to us. ".

He said, "As expected, I will do Porsche." Oh, the translation is strange (laughs)? The original text is "Here Porsche has done real pioneering work".

Well, I think it's like "Porsche, you're on the cutting edge!" picture? It's not a decent translation yet ^^?

By the way, it seems that there was a lot of detailed preparation before the challenge to this Guinness record.

First of all, a local land surveyor properly measures the drift circuit area of 80 m directly from the Porsche Experience Center in millimeters.

It seems that the GPS and yaw rate sensor installed in the car were also used for proper recording in the end.

A camera for recording is also installed on the roof of the truck control tower.

There is another person who should not be forgotten during this record challenge. That is Denise Ritzmann.

She is the winner of the 2018 and 2019 European Drift Championships. Yeah, it's amazing.

And it seems that she was also responsible for allowing this Taycan to continue drifting toward the record setting this time.

“You can tell at a glance if the front wheels are pointing in a different direction than the curve. If the front wheels are pointing in a different direction than the curve, you know that the car is drifting,” she says.

She was in charge of managing Taycan so that it could continue to drift like this, and while Taycan was trying to record, he was counting the number of laps with a Guinness person.

Even so, even if the drift course of this Porsche Experience Center does not have a sprinkler, it is good to be able to always do it with the sprinkler method ^ ^

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This is the video of this drift longest Guinness world record released by Porsche ↓

Source:(Official) Porsche Taycan drifts into the Guinness World Records ™ book