Plaid Drag Racing - Not such a great night

[bkcyk]

I forgot about the passenger.. . She kept it together real well, given the circumstances.

She’s just as insane as he. Proper lady that.

I’d sht my pants. No joke. 190 mph??????? With a bump lightened to then brake for a left?

In a TESLA with internet owners whining and moaning about vibes and software updates and tire wear? (Of which I have no issues)

Hard pass.

 

[sorka]

Any chance the recent software updates to supposedly redistribute power from the front to the rear to protect the half shafts (acceleration shudder issue) are messing with 60 foot times?

 

[cptnslo]

I’m up in Denver and I enjoyed watching the guy run mid 12s with this

 

[MrSlowEv]

I’m up in Denver and I enjoyed watching the guy run mid 12s with this View attachment 1006405

Did you get any passes in with the plaid?

 

[cptnslo]

Did you get any passes in with the plaid?

This was before I had my MS.

 

[cptnslo]

Not sure if this is old or not. Can’t get the yt link to work and Reddit doesn’t show when it was uploaded to yt

https://www.reddit.com/r/LUCID/s/6hqHPup32s

 

[Drew-MS]

Not sure if this is old or not. Can’t get the yt link to work and Reddit doesn’t show when it was uploaded to yt

https://www.reddit.com/r/LUCID/s/6hqHPup32s

This video was posted last week on the Tesla Plaid Channel. I definitely expected more out of the Saphire.

 

[Drew-MS]

Has anyone trapped 155 as claimed by Tesla?

After thousands of plaid 1/4 mile runs on prepped and non-prepped surfaces since mid-2021, no plaid (without significant weight reduction) has ever trapped 155mph. With all the evidence out there for more than 2 years, it's a little surprising someone at Tesla hasn't adjusted the website to a real number like 150+mph.

 

[Drew-MS]

I agree 100%. I also feel that at times Tesla has “over sold” some of their products. So it would not surprise me if they elected to make the claim of the car trapping 155mph based on formulas/equations. I’m not saying it’s impossible but I personally haven’t seen one doing it yet, in the stock configuration.

Just to be clear, the Model S plaid is currently my favorite car that I’ve owned. It’s the most practical and the quickest.

Plaid is also my all time fav car. Since I've never even been to a drag strip, I don't really care about the trap speed. However, if you're not going to say it, I'll be happy to: It's not possible for a stock plaid to trap 155 ! If so, we would have seen it by now. Cheers

 

[sorka]

After thousands of plaid 1/4 mile runs on prepped and non-prepped surfaces since mid-2021, no plaid (without significant weight reduction) has ever trapped 155mph. With all the evidence out there for more than 2 years, it's a little surprising someone at Tesla hasn't adjusted the website to a real number like 150+mph.

Two mph off the best we've seen, so yea, Tesla needs to update the site. That said, 9.2s and 9.3s all day long some even on unprepped streets.

Andrew's Plaid has run over 850 races so his battery can't be putting out the 840KW it did when it was new. Almost certainly more than compensates for the 0.17s (170 lb reduction). He's also on the original factory Pirelli's at 19K miles.

This is the first Sapphire showing in the wild that wasn't a prepped car handed to a reviewer or event.

 

[cptnslo]

I loved the comment on the Reddit post about the plaid “not being stock” apparently people don’t understand that interior crap being removed wasn’t enough to justify the fact the sapphire wasn’t catching up.

 

[HighPotential]

I was hoping we would get a momentary 300HP boost option in the Holiday update Maybe we don't need it- yet.

 

[WilliamG]

I loved the comment on the Reddit post about the plaid “not being stock” apparently people don’t understand that interior crap being removed wasn’t enough to justify the fact the sapphire wasn’t catching up. View attachment 1011518

Not stock is not stock, though. I do think Tesla Plaid Channel undermines its results by doing any mods, including something as small as removing rear seats. At the end of the day, a modified Plaid beat a stock Sapphire.

 

[sorka]

Not stock is not stock, though. I do think Tesla Plaid Channel undermines its results by doing any mods, including something as small as removing rear seats. At the end of the day, a modified Plaid beat a stock Sapphire.

Agree. Not that it would have changed the outcome but it does provide an excuse for those to say it would have. I believe Andrew has said he's going to add the missing interior trim pieces back for rematch. Doubt it's as heavy as he says as his Plaid is running the same times and ETS as all the other stock weight Plaids. Could also just be that the 800+ dragstrip runs in dragstrip ready mode has worn out his battery which is just about countering the weight reduction. He should also consider replacing his 19K mile tires for fresh ones for the rematch.

 

[HighPotential]

Not stock is not stock, though. I do think Tesla Plaid Channel undermines its results by doing any mods, including something as small as removing rear seats. At the end of the day, a modified Plaid beat a stock Sapphire.

I'd still take his Plaid with the rear seats over that Lucid any day. 170 lbs isn't anything and those runs were not close.

 

[TIppy]

Using the published horsepower vs speed plot and taking into account the rotational inertia, loss in the gear box, rolling resistance, tire slip, aerodynamic drag and the mass of the car plus driver, the 170 lbs of removed weight makes a 0.113 second difference in elapsed time in the quarter mile. Andrew's best elapsed time has been a 9.15 second pass. So, adding the 170 lbs back in would bring him back to the more usual 9.26 seconds in the quarter mile which is what he says he was getting before he stripped his car. He says he hasn't noticed any decrease in performance from when his car was new.

He could just put 3 or 4 50lb bags of sand in the back, but lucid fans would probably say he stripped more than that.

 

[sorka]

Using the published horsepower vs speed plot and taking into account the rotational inertia, loss in the gear box, rolling resistance, tire slip, aerodynamic drag and the mass of the car plus driver, the 170 lbs of removed weight makes a 0.113 second difference in elapsed time in the quarter mile. Andrew's best elapsed time has been a 9.15 second pass. So, adding the 170 lbs back in would bring him back to the more usual 9.26 seconds in the quarter mile which is what he says he was getting before he stripped his car. He says he hasn't noticed any decrease in performance from when his car was new.

He could just put 3 or 4 50lb bags of sand in the back, but lucid fans would probably say he stripped more than that.

But he wasn't getting 9.15 when he was racing Sapphire. Hasn't it been quite some time since he posted that time?

 

[WilliamG]

I'd still take his Plaid with the rear seats over that Lucid any day. 170 lbs isn't anything and those runs were not close.

I would, too. I just still think he should be racing a stock car.

 

[TIppy]

But he wasn't getting 9.15 when he was racing Sapphire. Hasn't it been quite some time since he posted that time?

Because of poor weather conditions, he expected to run mid 9.20s. He ran a 9.26. He ran a 9.19 two months ago at 90% charge.

 

[cptnslo]