Incredibly proud and excited to showcase the track potential of Tesla platforms with Rory Reid and Auto Trader UK. Being able to set the EV lap record alongside Rory made for an electrifying close to our filming together. Great driving Rory & Craig! There is still a lot more potential for even faster laps with Dark Helmet and our Tesla tuning programs! Next up Pikes Peak International Hill Climb here we come!
@@sports2hedz542 i dont think thats possible is it ? the id.r is made purely for record runs with a super small battery just enough for the race. that would be insane
Man I would love to see this on Pikes Peak. Craig looked like he was really fighting the car in a lot of those turns and I wonder if that's a driver issue or a car issue. Great time, but the smoothness wasn't there. Room for improvement?
You can hear the tires struggling for grip...The sound they make gives you feedback on how much more you can push it. This is not possible with a combustion engine.
Agreed! AND it does it using 150-year-old engine design that not only keeps up, but destroys these so-called cutting edge EVs... 🤣Tells you how right they were with the internal combustion engine, and how it is, and always will be, a relevant and viable option. No blood batteries on these hands!
@@pdiz More like 150-year old extremely basic design that's been iterated and completely evolved thousands of times into something much more complex. EV's have barely been in serious development for about 15 years and majority of that time ONLY by Tesla. EVs are barely even getting started and already eclipsing ICE in nearly every facet. Give it 5 years or so at most before ICE is destroyed handily in every dimension possible (primarily less weight through higher energy density).
This was an awesome time! Big congrats to Unplugged Performance for the crazy fast lap record! I wish I didn't have older Pilot Sport 4S tires on that day, it would have been very interesting to see how a set of the Z07 package Pilot Cup 2 R tires would have done...overall epic day!!!
Hey, have you ever heard of DSC Sport? I ask because it's the most fun tuning the Magride. They tune it to be compliant (soft), but I tune my cars for performance and road feel. I didn't care for their tune at all - but you can customize it for performance without killing the road feel. There is a lot left on the table. I had a controller on my 1le and now I have one on my PP2 Mustang. It's a game changer.
Unplugged’s kit is great. I put their coil overs, sway bars, and lightweight wheels on my model 3 and it substantially improved the ride in both performance and comfort. Awesome video Rory.
That’s what everyone say who haven’t felt the true nature of Tesla performance vehicles. A M3P is faster then anything out there in the same class, in a straight line or track, and the best part is, the car is so easy to drive really really fast with confidence!
@@NVIDIAGeekify nothing noticeable. The tires for sure dropped the range, but the ultralight wheels definitely made up for some of that. Mine is a 2018 Dual Motor, 100% charge is down to 285-290 from 315 according to the car estimate. But not sue how much of that is battery age
I just want to know if Casa Bonita on that wing really did sponsor this car since I’ve been on the waiting list for their soft opening, and not a single peep, yet they respond to sponsorship proposals 😂😂😂
Like Rory said, the tires make all the difference. "Comparing" two cars, one with and one without slicks, really biases things. Also, the more turns there are, the more that driver skill matters - the same driver should drive both, removing yet another difference and making it more of a true comparison between to specific cars. That said, for a shot at the lap record, nothing matters but the time.
Straight up, this is the best video Auto Trader has produced. What an epic performance. The camerawork and presentation is truly outstanding. Well done on smashing those records👏👏👏
Man, I love this podcast. Its splendid. Rory? He is next level. His work at Auto Trader is a full on success. He is generating a general excitement for sports cars. Bravo. And Jesse? He is a gentleman. Smart. Graceful. Brilliantly articulate.
6:31 Unless thats some funky reflection off the car, you can see the grass to the cars left (right on video) side being pushed away by the air the car itself is pushing. Pretty cool to see.
@@UnpluggedPerformanceTesla Could you make a Tesla plaid with a fan to make more downforce and at the same time go through the radiators and help cool off the battery pack?
Absolute monster, and huge achievement for unplugged. Hopefully they can continue to develop the EV formula for the future. And who knows it could lead to improvements for consumers as well
First video recommended to me so glad I clicked. Been a fan of the articles and posts for years and never knew you had a YT channel. Fantastic production, editing, cam quality etc!
They said the previous record was also set by a modified car. Also, a second is a significant margin in racing, the next laptimes cars were all within a second of eachother.
And that GT2RS was piloted by a damned good pro driver. Randy Probst has done some test work for Tesla, so he's quite familiar, I'm guessing he could shave off another couple of seconds off this record.
@@markplott4820 lol the rimac IS a production car. not being mass produced doesn’t matter. it IS faster, it’s a 1900hp hypercar. dark helmet isn’t even road legal, nvm all the other specials made for lap time ‘records’.
The Rimac Nevera is a gorgeous car, and I wish I could own one, but they're only making like 100 of them and they sell for $2M a piece. Let's not pretend it's competition for the Plaid, or even a "real car". It's an art piece that very few people will ever even see, never mind drive, so it may as well not actually exist for the purposes of comparison.
@@garyco766 pretty sure they were gonna make like 100, and then another 320 that were slightly detuned for sale to normal people. I watched a ton of videos and exclusivity was only mentioned once, and I’m pretty sure the numbers were around those.
I mean, I love electric cars, I think they're great. But watching the in-car footage of that lap at the end was so boring in comparison to hearing the engine singing and running through the gears. I think motorsport should remain an ICE sport (using renewable fuels) while roadgoing cars are electric.
Nope, and they where running factory aero... No add ons, and none of the pikes peak bs the black had. So race tires, and over double the aero and full roll cage. Sure its fast, but it needs to be compared to a Porsche 911 RSR, or the GTE race team car.
@@spazz954 For info : The GT2 RS came equipped with the Weissach package, including the magnesium wheels, specific Cup 2 tires, and plenty of carbon parts. The tested version costs $345,300. The Viper ACR came with the Extreme Aero package, which delivers 1,700+ pounds of peak downforce at top speed through a massive adjustable dual-element carbon fiber rear wing, rear carbon fiber diffuser, unique SRT hood with removable louvers, detachable extension for the front splitter and additional dive planes. Spring and anti-roll-bar rates were increased and the ACR was fitted with forged aluminum wheels and track-ready race tires.
It’s a highly modified Tesla, with tens of thousands of dollars put into it, against stock vehicles. And the modified GT2 RS, that held the lap record, wasn’t driven by a profession driver. Also, this Tesla is a track only vehicle. All the other cars can be driven on public roads with no issues. I don’t see this as a fair comparison at all.
so a fully gutted tesla with slick tyres, suspension brakes and a time attack downforce package is history? Frankly id be fucking pissed if i spent all that time and money to modify this turd only to barely beat a porche and viper that are factory cars on road tyres by a second. garbage lol
@@bigduphusaj162 all 5 of your subscribers probably agree with you. My question is this... what made you click on his video? I don't like bell peppers. My little trick is to not order them. Try it.
A heavily modified Z06 would have been a better test. But agree, nonetheless a huge achievement for EVs--it's shows just cause you replace the engine (EV vs ICE), the dynamics can still be addressed to make an extremely, possibly better fast car. Then again, watch Porsche come in next year with a modified 911 to break that record, in typical Porsche fashion.
Considering this package already had slower times than a stock 911 turbo S in the pikes peak hill climb trials, I dont think Porsche would need to try that hard.
@@williamgrover7137 Most people (I hope) expect the 911 to keep dominating on bendy tracks with not many straights compared to this Tesla. But for this tank of a car to even perform the way it did on a bendy track is just insane. The big body weight can't be hidden. Impossible. It sort of looked like skipping a bit in some corners. Yet it somehow did it. Very impressive.
Now that we know what it can do at 100% battery, I'm curious what it does at 10% battery. How much performance loss is there as you go through the battery? Like let's say it can do 20 laps on a battery, what do those times look like for each lap as the battery drains?
you'll probably be a couple seconds slower on 10% as you might not have enough power for the thermal management or something or other 100-200 horsepower loss is a pretty big deal
it was already throttling HARD at the end of the first lap.this car would might lose a 10 lap race against a civic. well, maybe not if the driver manages heat carefully. but it will at least have to slow down so much to keep the battery from burning up that it might as well be a 400 hp car
Depends on the battery overhead. If the inverter is 400V and the fully charged battery is 440V, it won’t throttle until 75% SOC or when the battery hits 400 volts at wide open throttle. Dead flat is around 280-300 volts depending on what is in the management system. At 300 volts the motor may be getting 75% of the peak power the inverter can provide. In reality, 300v is close to 0% SOC it would be more like limp home mode because of the electronics trying to save the battery
The front splitter scraping th the ground under braking can’t be good for underbody aerodynamics. You’d be shifting the center of pressure drastically under braking every time. I don’t think you can change the suspension mounting points for more anti dive geometry, but maybe stiffer suspension is needed
I am just impressed of the performance of the zo6 as a stock street car coming so damn close to the tesla with a stripped interior, cage, agressive aero, 1000 hp, and race tires. I think a car like the 911 gt3 would be faster than the tesla even with it being a street car on street tires because it has a bit more aero than the c8.
The regular model S plaid scored a time of 1:27.78 wheras the zo6 was like 1:32 if we are comparing street cars to street cars, the plaid still comes out on top it should be noted that the regular model S plaid is comparable price to the regular zo6, I don't know much about race times, but if 5 seconds is comparable, then we should be comparing the unmodified plaid to the unmodified zo6
I would love to see the McMurtry Speirling on this track. I'm guessing it would smash this record, those under chassis fans providing 2000kg of downforce from stop is way too much of an advantage.
props to the vette. Not only 350hp short and on street tires, only 2 seconds off is crazy good. tires alone could give you that time improvement, let alone an 1000hp ICE
Would be interesting to see, but I suspect it'll be massively down on charge and power and probably in battery cooling mode by the time the long straight comes in, so it'll be robbed of a lot of performance and laptime there.
I'd really love to see you cover the 911 Turbo S out there that have aero kits.. Brabus, Top-Car, Stinger GTR, VENOM, and Tech-Art.. At least... That's what I remember off the top of my head..
@@RiasGremoryS54 but the tesla can only do it in 1 lap , The porsche and viper will do it all day long , not sure about the porsche but that viper is 100% legal too ... But a win is a win and would love to own any
@@98KidCOOL12 I can’t believe no is amazed at the Porsche’s time. It took a hugely modified gutted out Plaid to beat it just for one lap. Porsche is a monster.
@@Al-ep8dz I agree this record isn’t impressive at all. This plaid has 1000HP, Racing Slicks, Huge aftermarket aero and is completely gutted! Its only able to be a OEM factory car by 1 second 💀. Meanwhile the Porsche is stock with an OEM option( no slicks or gutted) and they’re calling it modified. Sigh… I love my Model X but Tesla’s aren’t track cars and will never be!
Worst track comparison ever. “We took this production car with 50% more horsepower than the competition… We gutted the interior to shed weight… We bolted on a full aero kit… We added racing slicks… It doubled the price of our car… We maximized everything we could control trackside in our favor… And we dominated for one single lap. Condolences GM 😭” -150hp on 66%? Good thing it wasn’t a 10 lap race because the battery died after 4. The track record probably stood for about 5 minutes while the Corvette put on some slicks.
I wouldn't be surprised if it ran a high 18/low 19 if they had tyre warmers. Definitely not a fan of lack of engine noise very boring to watch. That being said I did enjoy seeing the mannerisms of the dark helmet vs the c8 I found it cool see how they behaved on each corner. I do appreciate how fast this thing can go great video
I’m sure most people watching will not understand a track built car can never be compared to a stock production car. By comparing the two show the lack of track knowledge from this video
When it can compete in a 24-hour endurance race such as LeMans then I will be interested. No electric car lacks for acceleration or zero to 60 times The big downfall is the charging time and having to wait for your car instead of your car being always ready for you.
Lol, so when it can do an incredibly specific race you'll be interested? Regardless of it basically being the best in every single category except it can't race for 24hrs? Odd requirement for a fast car if you ask me, but please understand the charge timing isn't a problem for 99.9999% of humans on normal use, including at a track.
That race was relevant in the old days when manufacturers wanted to prove how well they could build an engine via a torture test. In todays world it doesn’t matter. Electric motors can run forever in race world times. I imagine racers customizing their cars for battery hot swaps. I’m guessing they can get that down to a couple of seconds. It’s going to be great fun watching the racing world change to this superior technology.
"You can't left foot brake it and press the gas at the same time" You don't need to, its an EV you have 100% of the torque at any rpm so no need to keep the revs up like in an ICE.
Left foot braking can be used to encourage the car to pivot, increasing cornering speed. So yes, you do need to if you want to get the best possible lap time out of it.
That is true, technically it goes faster with a lighter tank. But a petrol V12 is also a BITCH to maintain, and racing it takes years of its life. Launching one is so traumatic to the motor & transmission that companies limit how many launches you can do before you void your warranty. EVs don't care - launching and racing doesn't hurt the motor one bit.
The Rimac Nevera is 0-60 in 1.7 sec. Plaid owners are amazed at the power and speed. Acceleration does not decrease under 200 mph. 1900 hp. The Rimac even has an intelligent track mode that can teach you how to drive the track the fastest. But it is gorgeous inside and out. It doesn't look like a Frankenstein car like this.
Well.... i would challenge this claim...because at Goodwood last year we had the MCMURTY FAN CAR...that DESTROYED the hill record and there is NO WAY This Tesla will ever break the record.
I feel like electric cars(tesla) is like Honda civic,integra were in 1980s-2000 hated for no apparent reason but wiping the floor with the competition in all aspects..
Now I wanna see how the Rimac Nevera, Venom F5 and the fastest Lucid would do. I was hoping Jesse Iwuji wins with that sound. I'd fall asleep racing that Tesla the way it's so quiet inside on Coker's run.
very nice, even though not fitting to any race car regulations! We're gonna see many more mad EVs in the future, also street legal ones! Just imagine a car with a way lighter battery and smaller chassis.
yeah battery weight is the weak link. plaid powetrain in a sportscar chassis, with a smaller high power density battery, strong batteyr cooling and a 1kWh supercapacitor buffer to handle all the acceleration/regen braking demand. todays high performance ev like rimac nevera or tesla plaid are designed for range have to fight the weight constantly
They also claimed it broke the lap record while it was so far away from road legal and being compared to road cars. Like, it's a $110k Tesla with probably $100k in mods. Those tires alone are $1k each. If you converter the Corvette into a full on race car it'd be much faster too.
@@kimkristensen2816 its not about price. its about the engineering of the car and performance. this "racing" tesla was made to be fast on track and a stock Rimac will still walk past it on track and on a straight
He was driving on the absolute edge to break those records. I was expecting a poor time, because it looked scrappy in places, but clearly that was because the car was on the very edge and avoiding near potential disaster.
Lucid air sapphire (one that could stand a chance against the Plaid with track package) doesn't exist anywhere yet. Normal lucid air with 1111hp is beaten by the Tesla Model X which is wayy heavier, less powerful and just goes to show that Tesla Hp (in Plaid config) are more than any other gas or EV hp
@Boostedboiz You need to get the Tesla Cart on the same wheel and tire setup and good coil overs, race alignment, and corner balanced and try to see if you can beat the record!
So cool that Tesla acknowledged the Dark Helmet in the latest 2023 Holiday update by adding the car as a playable vehicle option in the beach buggy racing game in the Tesla Arcade.
The POV driving footage with no cuts is just awesome. This is the way!
This is the way!
This is the way
This is the way
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Incredibly proud and excited to showcase the track potential of Tesla platforms with Rory Reid and Auto Trader UK. Being able to set the EV lap record alongside Rory made for an electrifying close to our filming together. Great driving Rory & Craig! There is still a lot more potential for even faster laps with Dark Helmet and our Tesla tuning programs!
Next up Pikes Peak International Hill Climb here we come!
June 25 👀 taking down VW ID R! Can't wait
@@sports2hedz542 i dont think thats possible is it ? the id.r is made purely for record runs with a super small battery just enough for the race.
that would be insane
Man I would love to see this on Pikes Peak. Craig looked like he was really fighting the car in a lot of those turns and I wonder if that's a driver issue or a car issue. Great time, but the smoothness wasn't there. Room for improvement?
@@sports2hedz542this will be interesting 🏁
Amazing work! Much respect to you guys all!
Watching that record breaking lap, I just realized how scary quick that was. Also, with the silence, you actually get to hear quite a lot of things.
Also watch the heatmap at 14:45 it clearly loses power and he can’t complete the lap at full speed
He would drop another 3+ seconds
with the silence it's looks and feels like a videogame)
my brain can't believe it's true, especially in the corners
You can hear the tires struggling for grip...The sound they make gives you feedback on how much more you can push it. This is not possible with a combustion engine.
@@KCJbomberFTW That is because of his previous failed lap where he spun out. if that didn't happen he would be well under 1 minute 20 for sure!
@@lachlanB323 I don’t get why he hasn’t done it again
It is amazing that the 2017 Dodge Viper is still top 3 lap time.
Petrol engines are battle-tested. At that time internal combustion engines were at the peak of evolution.
EV are trash.. Junk
Agreed! AND it does it using 150-year-old engine design that not only keeps up, but destroys these so-called cutting edge EVs... 🤣Tells you how right they were with the internal combustion engine, and how it is, and always will be, a relevant and viable option. No blood batteries on these hands!
@@pdiz imagine 150 years of development on the EV… I love myself a combustion engine, but your argument makes no sense.
@@pdiz More like 150-year old extremely basic design that's been iterated and completely evolved thousands of times into something much more complex. EV's have barely been in serious development for about 15 years and majority of that time ONLY by Tesla. EVs are barely even getting started and already eclipsing ICE in nearly every facet. Give it 5 years or so at most before ICE is destroyed handily in every dimension possible (primarily less weight through higher energy density).
This was an awesome time! Big congrats to Unplugged Performance for the crazy fast lap record! I wish I didn't have older Pilot Sport 4S tires on that day, it would have been very interesting to see how a set of the Z07 package Pilot Cup 2 R tires would have done...overall epic day!!!
It would have been interesting to see your results if you drove Dark Helmet. I bet you would have set a track record as well.
Hey, have you ever heard of DSC Sport? I ask because it's the most fun tuning the Magride. They tune it to be compliant (soft), but I tune my cars for performance and road feel. I didn't care for their tune at all - but you can customize it for performance without killing the road feel. There is a lot left on the table. I had a controller on my 1le and now I have one on my PP2 Mustang. It's a game changer.
@@markplott4820 do they have sizes that will fit 20" wheels?
@@ibrahimmoss I wanted to do bad lol
@@UnpluggedPerformanceTesla I'm sooo down!
I really really enjoyed the none edited in the cockpit lap💯🔥
Yeah that footage was really epic!
Unplugged’s kit is great. I put their coil overs, sway bars, and lightweight wheels on my model 3 and it substantially improved the ride in both performance and comfort. Awesome video Rory.
its good but its still a Tesla
@@TaipanCARS so what?
That’s what everyone say who haven’t felt the true nature of Tesla performance vehicles. A M3P is faster then anything out there in the same class, in a straight line or track, and the best part is, the car is so easy to drive really really fast with confidence!
any drop in range?
@@NVIDIAGeekify nothing noticeable. The tires for sure dropped the range, but the ultralight wheels definitely made up for some of that. Mine is a 2018 Dual Motor, 100% charge is down to 285-290 from 315 according to the car estimate. But not sue how much of that is battery age
Wow. That downforce package really does make a difference. Those cornering speeds are mind-blowing.
I just want to know if Casa Bonita on that wing really did sponsor this car since I’ve been on the waiting list for their soft opening, and not a single peep, yet they respond to sponsorship proposals 😂😂😂
Like Rory said, the tires make all the difference. "Comparing" two cars, one with and one without slicks, really biases things. Also, the more turns there are, the more that driver skill matters - the same driver should drive both, removing yet another difference and making it more of a true comparison between to specific cars. That said, for a shot at the lap record, nothing matters but the time.
Yes. Even with those modifications it wouldn't win against the plaid. The plaid holds its time for a reason.
Straight up, this is the best video Auto Trader has produced. What an epic performance. The camerawork and presentation is truly outstanding. Well done on smashing those records👏👏👏
Thank you for including me in this! What a ride!
What
I was just amazed to see a NASCAR driver turning right! 😂
Kidding, great runs from everyone! Rory has picked up some skills since I saw him last.
Man, I love this podcast. Its splendid. Rory? He is next level. His work at Auto Trader is a full on success. He is generating a general excitement for sports cars. Bravo.
And Jesse? He is a gentleman. Smart. Graceful. Brilliantly articulate.
6:31 Unless thats some funky reflection off the car, you can see the grass to the cars left (right on video) side being pushed away by the air the car itself is pushing. Pretty cool to see.
sick!
Yes you can see the ground effects working and there is a visible trail behind the car at speed 🙏
@@UnpluggedPerformanceTesla Could you make a Tesla plaid with a fan to make more downforce and at the same time go through the radiators and help cool off the battery pack?
@@LuizHartkopf no allowed for racing
Such an Awesome machine. Shout out to the people that build this beast. It looked so quick! Dark Helmet just got a new fan 😎
That Tesla is so quick, it’s like you have the FASTFORWARD button activated when watching the split screen lap times!
Lol!!!
Absolute monster, and huge achievement for unplugged. Hopefully they can continue to develop the EV formula for the future. And who knows it could lead to improvements for consumers as well
Thank you! We are going back to Pikes Peak later this month to see how our latest development efforts play out on the mountain!
Can't wait to see it!
EVs are junk. Absolute garbage
I want to see what Unplugged Performance can do with a Rivian or a Lucid Air
Boring
First video recommended to me so glad I clicked. Been a fan of the articles and posts for years and never knew you had a YT channel. Fantastic production, editing, cam quality etc!
THIS WAS AWESOME!
Heres hoping no one brings a mcmurtry spéirling or rimac nevera to willow springs anytime soon.
They just released the track pack version of the model s
and it looks the same as any other tesla
@@TaipanCARS yea they definitely should have added some aero.
So a stock manual acr on street tires was only 1 second behind? Now that’s more impressive than anything.
Yea I found it quite dumb how they trying to compare race car build tesla on slicks against stock street legal car.
They said the previous record was also set by a modified car. Also, a second is a significant margin in racing, the next laptimes cars were all within a second of eachother.
@@brendonwang4177 a second isnt much considering all the disadvantages the viper has.
@@sander16v11 The Viper was 11 seconds slower ...
@@cedricjacquet8698you must have read it incorrectly. Stop the video at 16:29
This is what I'll expect a race car on slicks to do, vs other street cars
What about the car that sent Richard Hammond flying off a cliff😅
I think that's not a regular production car
I think that was the Rimac! That's definitely faster than a Tesla
The Rimac Nevera is a €2M car, which is purpose built to be a hyper car. This Model S is a 10th that price.
@@inappropriateJesterand its 100th as good
@@ClaudioCanettayeah it was a street legal production car called the Rimac Concept 1
Rimac enters chat.
For a million dollars 😂😂
Absolutely insane.
Winning a against a beast track car 911 gt2 rs speaks volume. Kudos to the team who developed this car you guys are killin it!
And that GT2RS was piloted by a damned good pro driver. Randy Probst has done some test work for Tesla, so he's quite familiar, I'm guessing he could shave off another couple of seconds off this record.
Very impressive one lap pace from the EV. With that much aero, hp and tq advantage I had expected as much.
AMB Aero did a fantastic job developing that whole entire aero package. Well done Unplugged!
0:38 dude forgot Rimac
@@markplott4820 lol the rimac IS a production car. not being mass produced doesn’t matter. it IS faster, it’s a 1900hp hypercar. dark helmet isn’t even road legal, nvm all the other specials made for lap time ‘records’.
The Rimac Nevera is a gorgeous car, and I wish I could own one, but they're only making like 100 of them and they sell for $2M a piece. Let's not pretend it's competition for the Plaid, or even a "real car". It's an art piece that very few people will ever even see, never mind drive, so it may as well not actually exist for the purposes of comparison.
@@hamdanali2036
200 cars is hardly a production car
The problem is, it can only go around once.
Incredible! It’ll last until McMurtry takes a lap or two.
Legit question: how many McMurty are made? Is it a single car? 500 production run?
@@garyco766 pretty sure they were gonna make like 100, and then another 320 that were slightly detuned for sale to normal people. I watched a ton of videos and exclusivity was only mentioned once, and I’m pretty sure the numbers were around those.
Great video! The way you explained the things you hear in the car, then the raw sound of the fastest lap. Almost felt like im there.
I mean, I love electric cars, I think they're great. But watching the in-car footage of that lap at the end was so boring in comparison to hearing the engine singing and running through the gears. I think motorsport should remain an ICE sport (using renewable fuels) while roadgoing cars are electric.
Awesome time from an awesome car! But did the Porsche GT2 RS and Viper ACR also run on full racing slicks?? If not, the comparison is not really fair.
Nope, and they where running factory aero... No add ons, and none of the pikes peak bs the black had. So race tires, and over double the aero and full roll cage. Sure its fast, but it needs to be compared to a Porsche 911 RSR, or the GTE race team car.
@@spazz954 For info :
The GT2 RS came equipped with the Weissach package, including the magnesium wheels, specific Cup 2 tires, and plenty of carbon parts.
The tested version costs $345,300.
The Viper ACR came with the Extreme Aero package, which delivers 1,700+ pounds of peak downforce at top speed through a massive adjustable dual-element carbon fiber rear wing, rear carbon fiber diffuser, unique SRT hood with removable louvers, detachable extension for the front splitter and additional dive planes.
Spring and anti-roll-bar rates were increased and the ACR was fitted with forged aluminum wheels and track-ready race tires.
Glad to see Rory is still doing car reviews, TG didn't let him drive anything then faster than a road legal hot hatch! 😂
Yeah! True, All those drives went to love Mr himself Chris Harris...😅🤣
Always loved the SpaceBalls reference with the Plaid... glad these guys leaned into it
We just witnessed history being made. Congrats on the new record and Rory, you never disappoint.
yeah right. Bunch of faked bs
It is just the beginning but not history yet until it enters the 24-hour of le mans racing.
It’s a highly modified Tesla, with tens of thousands of dollars put into it, against stock vehicles. And the modified GT2 RS, that held the lap record, wasn’t driven by a profession driver. Also, this Tesla is a track only vehicle. All the other cars can be driven on public roads with no issues. I don’t see this as a fair comparison at all.
@@px_gc8they need to install some superchargers at every corner.
so a fully gutted tesla with slick tyres, suspension brakes and a time attack downforce package is history? Frankly id be fucking pissed if i spent all that time and money to modify this turd only to barely beat a porche and viper that are factory cars on road tyres by a second. garbage lol
Rory has become one of the best automotive journalists in the game.
no he hasnt, hes the worst
@@bigduphusaj162 all 5 of your subscribers probably agree with you.
My question is this... what made you click on his video? I don't like bell peppers. My little trick is to not order them. Try it.
Rory is great but I have to go with Mat Watson.. in my honest personal Opinion 😄
@@whytwhale I said "one of the best.".
Your 1st sentence made me aware of your opinion.
The street production car did way better than expected vs. the track only car. GM should be using this video for advertising the Corvette.
only when the scrub was driving this car. when the actual pilot hopped in it grew to a 12 second gap
Now let's see it compete at Le Mans.
It would take 88hrs to complete the 24hr race
Excellent video production.
It's funny how much engine noise is a factor in the sensation of speed .....
A zo7 package would’ve been a better test. But hey that dark helmet is one beast of a thing.
A heavily modified Z06 would have been a better test. But agree, nonetheless a huge achievement for EVs--it's shows just cause you replace the engine (EV vs ICE), the dynamics can still be addressed to make an extremely, possibly better fast car.
Then again, watch Porsche come in next year with a modified 911 to break that record, in typical Porsche fashion.
@@jojog8304 Porsche don't want to lose at everything. In typical Porsche fashion like you said... Maybe they salty
Considering this package already had slower times than a stock 911 turbo S in the pikes peak hill climb trials, I dont think Porsche would need to try that hard.
Or anything on a slick like the tesla was, all the other cars on a DOT tire
@@williamgrover7137 Most people (I hope) expect the 911 to keep dominating on bendy tracks with not many straights compared to this Tesla. But for this tank of a car to even perform the way it did on a bendy track is just insane. The big body weight can't be hidden. Impossible. It sort of looked like skipping a bit in some corners. Yet it somehow did it. Very impressive.
Now that we know what it can do at 100% battery, I'm curious what it does at 10% battery. How much performance loss is there as you go through the battery? Like let's say it can do 20 laps on a battery, what do those times look like for each lap as the battery drains?
you'll probably be a couple seconds slower on 10% as you might not have enough power for the thermal management or something or other
100-200 horsepower loss is a pretty big deal
it was already throttling HARD at the end of the first lap.this car would might lose a 10 lap race against a civic. well, maybe not if the driver manages heat carefully. but it will at least have to slow down so much to keep the battery from burning up that it might as well be a 400 hp car
Depends on the battery overhead. If the inverter is 400V and the fully charged battery is 440V, it won’t throttle until 75% SOC or when the battery hits 400 volts at wide open throttle. Dead flat is around 280-300 volts depending on what is in the management system. At 300 volts the motor may be getting 75% of the peak power the inverter can provide. In reality, 300v is close to 0% SOC it would be more like limp home mode because of the electronics trying to save the battery
Missed opportunity at 16:40. Comment could have been "Ridiculous name, ludicrous speed."
The front splitter scraping th the ground under braking can’t be good for underbody aerodynamics. You’d be shifting the center of pressure drastically under braking every time.
I don’t think you can change the suspension mounting points for more anti dive geometry, but maybe stiffer suspension is needed
Stiffer suspension in the front probably means more understeer
Thing looked super twitchy under braking. Doesn't look fun to drive.
Most gt cars also scrape, you just barely notice because of the engine noise
I am just impressed of the performance of the zo6 as a stock street car coming so damn close to the tesla with a stripped interior, cage, agressive aero, 1000 hp, and race tires. I think a car like the 911 gt3 would be faster than the tesla even with it being a street car on street tires because it has a bit more aero than the c8.
The regular model S plaid scored a time of 1:27.78
wheras the zo6 was like 1:32
if we are comparing street cars to street cars, the plaid still comes out on top
it should be noted that the regular model S plaid is comparable price to the regular zo6,
I don't know much about race times, but if 5 seconds is comparable, then we should be comparing the unmodified plaid to the unmodified zo6
I would love to see the McMurtry Speirling on this track. I'm guessing it would smash this record, those under chassis fans providing 2000kg of downforce from stop is way too much of an advantage.
The roadster 2 will probably come with a fan assist option, so it can suck itself to the ground like the Speirling.
Nice comparison. I wonder how a cheaper (relatively) Aerial Atom would do around those corners.
You've got to love the engineering that went into making these cars preform this way...
Craig was holding back so much on the Corvette lap. Could tell by the engine tone
Just Plaid, well done Dark Helmet!
Rory had a great time in the U.S. 😀
Can’t wait to see it in the 24 hours of Lemans!
props to the vette. Not only 350hp short and on street tires, only 2 seconds off is crazy good. tires alone could give you that time improvement, let alone an 1000hp ICE
2 seconds off but huge driver difference. total difference at the end was over 10 seconds
I'd like to see Dark Helmet running at Nürburgring
Would probably do similar times to GT3/GTE/ whatever class those Porsches and Lambos are in the Nurburgring 24h.
Would be interesting to see, but I suspect it'll be massively down on charge and power and probably in battery cooling mode by the time the long straight comes in, so it'll be robbed of a lot of performance and laptime there.
@@KitKitChanIsaacLmao, is this a serious comment?
@@NexusWarior211 Idk, I was just guessing when I made the comment. I wasn't even thinking straight at the time.
That bumper is suitable to shoving the stop oil protestor
I'd really love to see you cover the 911 Turbo S out there that have aero kits..
Brabus, Top-Car, Stinger GTR, VENOM, and Tech-Art.. At least... That's what I remember off the top of my head..
That Tesal just destroyed a modified GT2RS lap record, that's insane
@@RiasGremoryS54 but the tesla can only do it in 1 lap , The porsche and viper will do it all day long , not sure about the porsche but that viper is 100% legal too ... But a win is a win and would love to own any
@@RiasGremoryS54 It wasn’t a modified gt2rs, its a factory 2018 911 GT2 RS Weissach Edition on non slick tires as well.
@@98KidCOOL12 I can’t believe no is amazed at the Porsche’s time. It took a hugely modified gutted out Plaid to beat it just for one lap. Porsche is a monster.
@@Al-ep8dz I agree this record isn’t impressive at all. This plaid has 1000HP, Racing Slicks, Huge aftermarket aero and is completely gutted! Its only able to be a OEM factory car by 1 second 💀. Meanwhile the Porsche is stock with an OEM option( no slicks or gutted) and they’re calling it modified. Sigh… I love my Model X but Tesla’s aren’t track cars and will never be!
I would like to see the Rimac Nevera here on same tyres, I think that would be close. 😬
Worst track comparison ever.
“We took this production car with 50% more horsepower than the competition…
We gutted the interior to shed weight…
We bolted on a full aero kit…
We added racing slicks…
It doubled the price of our car…
We maximized everything we could control trackside in our favor…
And we dominated for one single lap. Condolences GM 😭”
-150hp on 66%? Good thing it wasn’t a 10 lap race because the battery died after 4.
The track record probably stood for about 5 minutes while the Corvette put on some slicks.
Willow springs was my first track I drove on when I worked for MBZ. So much fun.
Thanks Rory!!
finally a car video i can watch on silent
It's Rimac NEVERA not Nivera boiii
I wouldn't be surprised if it ran a high 18/low 19 if they had tyre warmers. Definitely not a fan of lack of engine noise very boring to watch. That being said I did enjoy seeing the mannerisms of the dark helmet vs the c8 I found it cool see how they behaved on each corner. I do appreciate how fast this thing can go great video
I’m sure most people watching will not understand a track built car can never be compared to a stock production car. By comparing the two show the lack of track knowledge from this video
When it can compete in a 24-hour endurance race such as LeMans then I will be interested. No electric car lacks for acceleration or zero to 60 times The big downfall is the charging time and having to wait for your car instead of your car being always ready for you.
Lol, so when it can do an incredibly specific race you'll be interested? Regardless of it basically being the best in every single category except it can't race for 24hrs?
Odd requirement for a fast car if you ask me, but please understand the charge timing isn't a problem for 99.9999% of humans on normal use, including at a track.
That race was relevant in the old days when manufacturers wanted to prove how well they could build an engine via a torture test. In todays world it doesn’t matter. Electric motors can run forever in race world times.
I imagine racers customizing their cars for battery hot swaps. I’m guessing they can get that down to a couple of seconds. It’s going to be great fun watching the racing world change to this superior technology.
Who the hell drives for 24 hours
@@Vageta1999 all the teams that enter le mans. Duh.
Well the ones that finish at least. It's a great race, you should go sometime.
@@michaelmillsap4199 no. That's one example. Any endurance race. Paris Dakar, LeMans, Rolex 24 at Daytona...
Rory is the best car journalist out there.
Matt Watsons better imo
@@TaipanCARS no one asked both are good
@@Smzxe No one asked but your right
@@TaipanCARS dumbo I was everyone yes Matt is the best but others deserve respect not you
There seems to be a problem. It is a race car. Can not go at all on the streets. It's fast, but so are other race cars. It is impressive, however.
"You can't left foot brake it and press the gas at the same time" You don't need to, its an EV you have 100% of the torque at any rpm so no need to keep the revs up like in an ICE.
Left foot braking can be used to encourage the car to pivot, increasing cornering speed. So yes, you do need to if you want to get the best possible lap time out of it.
@@AndyQuinton Yes, in a conventional drivetrain that is correct, but with an AWD EV you can use torque vectoring to do the same thing.
Petrol V12 doesn't lose performance if the fuel tank is 66%.
That is true, technically it goes faster with a lighter tank. But a petrol V12 is also a BITCH to maintain, and racing it takes years of its life. Launching one is so traumatic to the motor & transmission that companies limit how many launches you can do before you void your warranty. EVs don't care - launching and racing doesn't hurt the motor one bit.
The Rimac Nevera is 0-60 in 1.7 sec. Plaid owners are amazed at the power and speed. Acceleration does not decrease under 200 mph. 1900 hp. The Rimac even has an intelligent track mode that can teach you how to drive the track the fastest. But it is gorgeous inside and out. It doesn't look like a Frankenstein car like this.
ye they talk so much bullshit its unreal... the opening speech at the beginning made me lol "noone ever build electric car as fast as this" wtf :D
Yeah, and the Rimac also costs $2M+, if I had the money, I'd take Rimac, but realistically it's gonna be this.
for 15x the price lol
They should have run the standard plaid as a comparison too.
7 second difference
I’d rock that at the track all day. Gonna trade up our P100D for a Plaid soon, prices still coming down.
Crazy that our p100d are slow lol. Few years I’ll see you with a plaid myself
Run it against a Z06 with Z07 package with full aero!
Hey, this is next level video! And congrats to Unplugged Performance for this achievement!
Please tell me you all had Rory review a Rivian (either T or S) while he was in the States….
Did anyone notice that’s also the same car that DDE raced in his new video???
That aero is actually pretty tame compared to what we see some racerboys putting on their street Evos.
More Jessie, More US and more cool unique tuned cars. Felt like top-gear vibes. Great video
i don care how fast could be or how "green" could be....we cave men needs clutch & gears & run run noise fire!!, fireee!!!
Well.... i would challenge this claim...because at Goodwood last year we had the MCMURTY FAN CAR...that DESTROYED the hill record and there is NO WAY This Tesla will ever break the record.
Bias journalism
Rory is a bloody good driver!
He was 10 seconds slower 😂
I feel like electric cars(tesla) is like Honda civic,integra were in 1980s-2000 hated for no apparent reason but wiping the floor with the competition in all aspects..
wow! great race !
Now I wanna see how the Rimac Nevera, Venom F5 and the fastest Lucid would do. I was hoping Jesse Iwuji wins with that sound. I'd fall asleep racing that Tesla the way it's so quiet inside on Coker's run.
So you would fall asleep with such g-forces?😮
@@milanjordanyes. A commercial aeroplane pulls more G forces and we still fall asleep now don't we?
If Jesse had new tires or the Z07pkg, he would've won
@@aaronvector4750
No they do not 😂😂😂
@@aaronvector4750 Maybe on the takeoff and no one is sleeping through that
Sorry but no matter how fast it goes road noise alone kills any excitement.
very nice, even though not fitting to any race car regulations! We're gonna see many more mad EVs in the future, also street legal ones! Just imagine a car with a way lighter battery and smaller chassis.
yeah battery weight is the weak link. plaid powetrain in a sportscar chassis, with a smaller high power density battery, strong batteyr cooling and a 1kWh supercapacitor buffer to handle all the acceleration/regen braking demand. todays high performance ev like rimac nevera or tesla plaid are designed for range have to fight the weight constantly
@@geemy9675 now that you mention it, I think it would be pretty interesting to see the Nevera have a go on this track
They also claimed it broke the lap record while it was so far away from road legal and being compared to road cars. Like, it's a $110k Tesla with probably $100k in mods. Those tires alone are $1k each. If you converter the Corvette into a full on race car it'd be much faster too.
Rimac Nevera is the Boss
At 10 times the price, only seats two and have no trunk to speak off.
@@kimkristensen2816 this one has non of that is not road legal. So the price does not mater
@@kimkristensen2816 the rimac is also a faster car
@@kimkristensen2816 its not about price. its about the engineering of the car and performance. this "racing" tesla was made to be fast on track and a stock Rimac will still walk past it on track and on a straight
Nivera??? 😂😂😂
he's talking about how insanely fast it is but whenever the camera points toward the speedo it's like 80-90 xD
you also need to look at the g-force that is going on at that speed
He was driving on the absolute edge to break those records. I was expecting a poor time, because it looked scrappy in places, but clearly that was because the car was on the very edge and avoiding near potential disaster.
yeah, only saved it on that big long corner when the down force could actually do something. you can tell the weight of the car is an issue.
For all those complaining about the intro, Lucid doesn't really exist in the UK yet.
You also can't get the Plaid in the UK normally either. The title makes no sense either way.
Lucid air sapphire (one that could stand a chance against the Plaid with track package) doesn't exist anywhere yet. Normal lucid air with 1111hp is beaten by the Tesla Model X which is wayy heavier, less powerful and just goes to show that Tesla Hp (in Plaid config) are more than any other gas or EV hp
@ 007 Valkyrie only 1 was delivered a year ago to an employee.
@ 007 Valkyrie lol sure bud.
Space Balls reference was not lost on me
I'd be interested to see how many laps it could do at that pace.
Maybe 3
One.
Multiple. It already had a heat soaked battery so the performance was already at its lowest really.
@@lachlanB323 it’s not so much the performance, it’s the range at that pace I’d be interested to know.
@Boostedboiz You need to get the Tesla Cart on the same wheel and tire setup and good coil overs, race alignment, and corner balanced and try to see if you can beat the record!
Great great show 👏🎉👍🔥
Dark helmet 😂👍👍
So cool that Tesla acknowledged the Dark Helmet in the latest 2023 Holiday update by adding the car as a playable vehicle option in the beach buggy racing game in the Tesla Arcade.
Hahahaha, that made me laugh when he started to use the back as “ironing board”, lol
Well played, and you earned another subscriber.
Thank you!
Exactly, bloody stupid really. It is obviously a picnic table for two!
Was that Jesse’s first time making right & left turns on the same race track? That might have been another disadvantage
Jesse is a really fast driver with tons of seat time.