Old school petrolheads should feel a shudder up the spine at the thought of an electric Porsche Taycan doing a 7min 07,55 sec time on the Nordschliefe,
Driven by Porsche development driver Lars Kern in a pre-series Taycan, the lap time is a whopping 26 seconds faster than he was on his last record drive, in a Taycan Turbo S Sport sedan equipped with the performance package back in August 2022.
“Twenty-six seconds is half an eternity in motor sport. Lars’ lap time of 7min 07,55 sec on the Nordschleife is sensational, putting the Taycan in the same league as electric hypercars,” says head of the model line, Kevin Giek. “And the impressive thing about it is that over several laps, Lars clocked almost exactly the same time.”
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“I pushed as hard as I could, but that was really all I could do,” says Kern.
The Nürburgring-Nordschleife was at the exclusive disposal of the experienced racer for the day of fast laps. For safety reasons, the test car was equipped with the legally prescribed roll cage, along with racing bucket seats.
Compared to the 2022 record in a Taycan Turbo S, the times were significantly better: the pre-series car was a good 25 km/h faster heading into the Schwedenkreuz. To illustrate the difference further, by the time Kern crossed the finish line near Grandstand 13 (T13) this time, he would have only just been passing the entrance to the Nordschleife, about to enter the Antoniusbuche section, during his record drive in the Taycan Turbo S in 2022.
This put the distance between the pre-series Taycan and the current Turbo S at more than 1,3 kilometres – a figure that illustrates the leap in performance achieved on the 20,8 km course in Germany’s Eifel region.
Colin Windell
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