https://electrek.co/2019/04/09/tesla-model-3-performance-nurburgring-race-track/
A nice first look, something many recovering petrol heads have been waiting for.
NOT driven in Track Mode here.
The updated P brakes do overheat within minute, driver decides to take it easier. So we don't know how much extra the drive train had to give. Hopefully soon we'll see a Track Mode lap from the same driver who really seems to know his way around the track driving well within himself and the respecting safety of other.
Not sure how much the stronger TM regen might help those poor brakes. One less passenger will help it get one or two corners further, maybe.
To those less familiar with track driving let alone this particular track, overtaking a hundred or so cars here says more about the driver than about the car. It's not racing, it's used as a public road here, without speed limits. Keep right when a car shows up behind to let them by.
Dynamically, the car looks really good considering it will be over 2 tons as driven.
Very curious to see a more serious attempt by a pro driver that knows the track and has gotten used to the car to be able to extract most from drive train and brakes. Such pro drives against are done without members of the public going for a little outing on the track at the same time. Someone needs to rent the whole track and its facilities to be able to do such a lap. You can't just show up and buy a ticket, start an out lap, do a flying lap and then an in lap. Just "out and in" laps allowed most of time. Time keeping prohibited.
A nice first look, something many recovering petrol heads have been waiting for.
NOT driven in Track Mode here.
The updated P brakes do overheat within minute, driver decides to take it easier. So we don't know how much extra the drive train had to give. Hopefully soon we'll see a Track Mode lap from the same driver who really seems to know his way around the track driving well within himself and the respecting safety of other.
Not sure how much the stronger TM regen might help those poor brakes. One less passenger will help it get one or two corners further, maybe.
To those less familiar with track driving let alone this particular track, overtaking a hundred or so cars here says more about the driver than about the car. It's not racing, it's used as a public road here, without speed limits. Keep right when a car shows up behind to let them by.
Dynamically, the car looks really good considering it will be over 2 tons as driven.
Very curious to see a more serious attempt by a pro driver that knows the track and has gotten used to the car to be able to extract most from drive train and brakes. Such pro drives against are done without members of the public going for a little outing on the track at the same time. Someone needs to rent the whole track and its facilities to be able to do such a lap. You can't just show up and buy a ticket, start an out lap, do a flying lap and then an in lap. Just "out and in" laps allowed most of time. Time keeping prohibited.
