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Volkswagen ID R Electric ‘Racer’ takes ALL TIME Goodwood Hillcimb record (video) UPDATED

July 7, 2019 By Cars UK

Volkswagen ID R Electric ‘Racer’ takes ALL TIME Goodwood Hillcimb record

Volkswagen ID R Electric ‘Racer’ takes ALL TIME Goodwood Hillcimb record

The Volkswagen ID R adds to its tally of performance records by taking the all time record for the Hillclimb run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Updated: The VW ID R has already broken its own record on the Goodwood FoS Hillcimb, recording a time of 39.9 seconds. We’ve updated the video below to show the new record run.

Volkswagen are on a mission not just to re-invent themselves as a maker of environmentally-friendly electric cars as penance for Dieslegate, with huge plans to deliver a swathe of new EVs in the coming years – whether you want an EV or no – but to prove electric cars can be interesting and exciting too.

So VW created the ID R, an electric ‘Racer’, and they’ve been busy turning up at ‘Speed’ events around the world to prove that nothing does performance better than electric.

We’ve seen the ID R set a new Pikes Peak Record in 2018, followed by a run up the Goodwood Hillclimb to take the EV record there too, and last month the ID R took the Nurbugring electric car record.

Now, having not been entirely happy that all they managed at last year’s Goodwood was to beat the EV record, Volkswagen has been back to Goodwood and set an all time record up the Hillcimb in the ID R.

Driven by Romain Dumas, the ID R finally broke the record set in 1999 by Nick Heidfeld in a McLaren MP4/13 F1 car with a time of 41.18 second, just 0.5 seconds quicker than Heidfeld’s record.

Somehow, especially as F1 cars are no longer timed on the Hillclimb, we can’t see an ICE car ever taking the record back.

It’s the era of the Performance EV.

VW ID R Goodwood FoS Hillcimb Video

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Filed Under: Car News, Volkswagen News Tagged With: Electric Cars

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  1. Robin Dickeson says

    July 6, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    With 100% torque available from zero engine RPM and possibly a stepless transmission too, it is hard to see how electric power can do anything but win in competition on the track and in the market. But sadly, it won’t be goodbye to internal combustion engines for some long time, and in the meantime, how about electric motor bikes too? The world will be a quieter, possibly cleaner if not safer place.

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