VW ID.R Breaks The Absolute Goodwood Festival of Speed Record

Man, it was fast! Only 41.18 to run 1.13 mile (1.82 km)

There are records that stand for many years. Take the Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb, for example. Nick Heidfeld managed to run 1.13 mile (1.82 km) with a McLaren MP4/13 F1 car in only 41.6 seconds in 1999. Ever since, F1 cars are not allowed there except for demonstrations. If they were, the record would have probably been broken many times. But it had to wait 20 years to fall. With the help of an EV: the Volkswagen ID.R.

Driven by Romain Dumas, the ID.R lapped the Goodwood hill climb in only 41.18 s. But it was not its first demonstration of strength. 

Led by the same pilot, it also finished the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in nder 8 minutes (7:57.148) for the first time in history about a year ago. And it also broke the EV record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a time of 6:05.336 last June 3.