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Originally Posted by BMWILUVU
Straight-line its great but sux in quick maneuvering and fast turns. Overall it gets boring quickly. They can't rewrite physics. They need to make batteries much lighter in weight.
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It's gonna be easy to break the so called record... look at the plaid, 7:25 vs 7:18 on the m4 csl (which was 7:20 until just recently) a heavy ev can still match most performance cars on a track like that. Take it to the GP track and you won't have brakes after the first few laps (heck I lost brakes after 2 in a non ccb m5 flying down the straight at 140 mph and realizing I had to pray turning the car 90 degrees was going to be enough to slow it down and it barely was) simply because it's a track that doesn't have high speed corners, they're all technical turns with fairly low entry speeds, brief acceleration back up to sometimes triple digits and back down to low doubles almost instantly which is taxing on both tires and brakes. But the nordshleife? Never gonna be an issue, there's like 2 slow turns, everything else is high speed 130 mph+ corners and as long as you have grip which Ding Ding Ding more weight = more grip on tires (think downforce) you're going to get fantastic times no matter what as long as the power is consistent over a large range of the battery and cooling can be properly implemented (I know for a fact the plaid cut power during its runs due to overheating). But if you think about it realistically you keep an ICE race car light for acceleration purposes then add globs of weight at speed for turning so if you can have a 6k lbs car that can accelerate the same way, then add even MORE weight at speed the grip will be astronomical for high speed turns, not so much slow speed technical turns like a chicane where weight transfer now becomes an issue or under heavy braking. Plus ev has low center of gravity meaning it doesn't pose a rollover risk at high Gs. You can compare the m4 csls 1.1g to the plaids 1.08 on the skidpad, and the plaid is only with pilot sport 4s vs the csls cup 2s... so... you see my point? Same cornering capability even at lower speeds.