Going Plaid

[MoreAgain]

Now we're talking. Model S beats Model 3 on Road Course. The world is going Plaid.

Wonder how long before this hits production.

 

[JasonR67]

Reported amateur driver.. and the car is so smooth. really impressive.

I bet they don't use an amateur driver for the Nurburgring.

 

[wenkan]

Now that the rich people are going plaid, can we get ludicrous?

 

[kellymc]

Looks like there are a couple of seconds left in the lap, especially the last corner, could get on the power quicker coming out of the corner

 

[alloverx]

Elon said about 1 year, so thats means 1 year and 364 days.

 

[seattlite2004]

Will the plaid come with yellow screens?

 

[beastmode13]

Reported amateur driver.. and the car is so smooth. really impressive.

I bet they don't use an amateur driver for the Nurburgring.

Nico Rosberg will be the driver when Tesla officially takes on Nurburgring.

Porsche Taycan gets praise from Tesla's Elon Musk on Nürburgring record

 

[brkaus]

Elon said about 1 year, so thats means 1 year and 364 days.

Exactly. And that counter starts next year

 

[beastmode13]

Interesting. If you study the corner speed of this record-setting run by the Model S, most of them are slowers than Model 3 corner speed. The difference is the Plaid acceleration in the straights between the corners. Model 3 is the official momentum Tesla.
@mcbarnet007 @Lucky13 @MountainPass

 

[mcbarnet007]

Model 3 has always been kind of a momentum car at high speed track. This Model S accelerates way faster after 60 mph. It could be using roadster2 tech for all we know. Good to see Tesla setting the record! It means they are serious about track performance.

 

[wenkan]

Interesting. If you study the corner speed of this record-setting run by the Model S, most of them are slowers than Model 3 corner speed. The difference is the Plaid acceleration in the straights between the corners. Model 3 is the official momentum Tesla.
@mcbarnet007 @Lucky13 @MountainPass

King of Autocross!

 

[beastmode13]

Model 3 has always been kind of a momentum car at high speed track. This Model S accelerates way faster after 60 mph. It could be using roadster2 tech for all we know. Good to see Tesla setting the record! It means they are serious about track performance.

Let’s just say it is using Roadster 2 tech. That means Roadster 2 (comparable or lighter to M3) would obliterate a lot of outright track records for street legal cars, not just EV records.

 

[sammyfan711]

This just hit me - this plaid mode edition that will seemingly be on sale soon is a model S refresh

 

[mcbarnet007]

This just hit me - this plaid mode edition that will seemingly be on sale soon is a model S refresh

I don't think it will be anytime soon, this is just a development car for the next gen S that's probably at least another 3 years out since you still have important projects like the Y, Truck, and Roadster2. Elon just showed his car early because of Taycan and wanting to stay relevant.

 

[BluestarE3]

Will the plaid come with yellow screens?

If you have plaid, you won't care.

 

[mcbarnet007]

Will the plaid come with yellow screens?

The screen is actually not yellow. What you'll be experiencing is a colorshift in the visible spectrum because you're going so fast.

 

[Odiemac]

Nice lap! We actually entered a Model S P100D in the June Laguna Seca event, and it wasn’t anything like this! Pulled power like crazy after half a lap and had very intrusive stability control that couldn’t be defeated (had to pull a wheel speed sensor).

This Plaid Model S is clearly a totally a different beast! As some have mentioned, there are even a couple seconds on the table with a different driver.

 

[Orwell]

Nice Model 3 steering wheel. Or is that the new Model S steering wheel?

 

[Saghost]

Model 3 has always been kind of a momentum car at high speed track. This Model S accelerates way faster after 60 mph. It could be using roadster2 tech for all we know. Good to see Tesla setting the record! It means they are serious about track performance.

Actually, I think it's pretty clear that this is Roadster2 tech in one of the development mules from this Twitter chain:

Twitter

 

[XLR82XS]

I bet they don't use an amateur driver for the Nurburgring.

Nico Rosberg .... maybe