The Porsche Taycan Electric Car Sets World Record For Longest Drifting

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JAKARTA - Automotive manufacturer Porsche has broken the Guinness World Records for the longest drift with an electric vehicle. The record was made with the latest Porsche Taycan at the Porsche Experience Center (PEC) Hockenheimring, Germany

Launching from Motorauthority, Friday November 27, Porsche instructor Dennis Retera made 210 turns on a 200-meter roundabout circuit with the front wheels positioned against the direction of drifting: after 55 minutes, Dennis had covered a total of 42,171 kilometers.

"When the driving stability program is turned off, powering the electric Porsche is very easy, especially with this model variant, which is driven exclusively through the rear wheels," said Dennis Retera, through his statement.

By completing this marathon distance, Retera secured the world record for longest non-stop drift on an electric car. The average speed is 46 km / h. The record was achieved with the rear-wheel drive version of the Taycan, which is already on sale in China.

The effort was carried out under the supervision of official Guinness World Records jury Joanne Brent in the area of irrigated driving dynamics at PEC. Prior to the test, Guiness had a local land surveyor measure an area 80 meters in diameter from the Porsche Experience Center with millimeter precision.

GPS sensors and vaporized speed sensors inside the vehicle are used for documentation purposes, such as cameras mounted on the roof of the track control tower, which record the journey.

Another independent expert is Denise Ritzmann. Prior to the logging trial, the technician confirmed the standard and roadworthiness conditions of the previous series Taycan with rear wheel drive on behalf of the testing organization DEKRA.

Ritzmann himself was the European drifting champion in 2018 and 2019 and is also responsible for ensuring the Taycan remains in permanent drift during the recording effort.

So far the Porsche Taycan has been the record holder in many other categories, including 24 hour endurance and traveling more than 3,425 km on the high-speed track in Nardò. Then the best time in its class is 7.42 minutes at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife or 26 sprints from rest to 200 km / h at the airport in Lahr.