Pete90D
Fan of Red Lights
Pete90D -- your 1.1 Gs is fantastic! Do you have the staggered or non-staggered 21"? Also, which brand of tires? And if you have the recent, more compliant suspension, do you think it degrades handling? My early-March P85D has 21" wheels delivered non-staggered with Continentals, which was a disappointment. However, I believe the suspension has the stiff roll bars: body roll is undetectable. I like stiff suspensions and would be dissatisfied if it was more compliant.
I have twisty country roads where I live but have been afraid to push the PD anywhere near what its limit must be (fear of the inertia of 2 1/2 tons of batteries flying off the road). Sounds like I should push harder.
I think the 1.1 was probably a one off. The ramp was slightly banked, but also it could have been very intermittent. When I was seeing numbers in the 0.9s I did see more constant numbers, but the onramp I couldn't watch the meter. Someone said I should take it to a skid pad to test, which I may.
I have staggered 21s with Michelins and my suspension is softer than something like sorka's from the sound of it.
I think you can push the car further than you think, but I'd be careful with it because it is a lot of weight to lose control of. I had pushed it before and taking those same turns I only saw a max of 0.7 so I sped up in the turns. I don't really want to go into details about all that, but I'm sad I lost the PBOX file because I don't really want to do it again... that's how nervous it made me at times. A patch of gravel and I'd be an unhappy camper right now.
Any chance you lost the go-pedal, during your turns? I can consistently have the pedal go almost dead in the (non-arrowed) turn below. I get around the left side, hold it, and get this rush of acceleration after the steering comes close to center. I can be unwinding from 90, to 40 degrees. Almost nothing. Get to ~10, and wham. Your image looks like you may have achieved a speed, or steering angle, where a limiter wouldn't have kicked in. It is tough to tell how steering angle, and speed may be involved. A 90 degree turn is another place where you might notice the "steering acceleration" effect, I'm getting at. I'm beginning to think it isn't consistent among the PD's, since I otherwise cannot believe you wouldn't have encountered it, given what you did. Maybe you weren't trying to exit, going in slow, out fast with more pedal? I think it's time to take mine in. Do I claim "electron starvation"?
-Two (clear) lanes are safer, than one
-If the ramp is banked, which most are, your G-reading may inflate the car's ability to hold the value you are looking at. Banking makes up for grip.
Thanks for sharing your data.
Onramp was a little banked which might explain going over what Tesla said it could do. Flatter turns were taken that were in the 0.9s.
I haven't experienced the dead pedal. If I do a u-turn I have lost traction and had dead pedal, but that's what you normally experience when traction is lost and the car "bogs" down. When I was doing my G test I accelerated in turns and it had tons of power at high speed in turns. I actually have to work harder to avoid going too fast in turns because the power doesn't go away.