David Green
Well-Known Member
Sure the WRX car was souped up for the lap race. I would guess that both Audi and Tesla would be tweaking the heck out of their cars also to achieve the best possible results. Should be even easier for an EV, just up the kW power of the motor. I know Hyundai is working on an 800 hp version for their Kona.
https://www.topgear.com.ph/news/racing-news/hyundai-kona-ev-rally-car-tguk-a2604-20190830
Like I said, thats not a production car record if any calibrations are out of production spec. The Taycan record was done with production car calibrations, and I guarantee you Porsche does not cheat on that. GM when they set the Camaro record, or any corvette record runs the car on a chassis dyno before and after the run, and has 3rd party verification of most critical settings including ride height, steering alignment, oil weight, tire spec, and softness. GM also takes their record attempts one step further as they make all their alignment settings, and HP / Torque in the middle of the spec rather that the most optimized for the record run. Sometimes Companies use their track time to do final tuning on alignment, shocks, tires, etc, but when they want to record a record all of the calibrations are finalized.