Scott Evans
11 days ago
@AndrewDLee Adding the Model S isn't really feasible. Each vehicle must drive to Highway 198, which is in the middle of nowhere and not at all close to a Supercharger or even a basic wall outlet. By the time the Tesla arrived, it would be at half charge or worse, and it wouldn't last through 12 hot runs up and down the closed-road hill climb. It then wouldn't make it to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, either. Moreover, we did run the Model S at Mazda Raceway, as you can see in our first Long-Term Update. Discharging the battery quickly enough to race around a track creates a lot of heat and the car goes into a battery protection mode, cutting power output. At 1:50.79, it was just quicker than a Subaru BRZ.