You often hear Porsche and the Guinness Book of Records associated for speed related events but very rarely would you align Porsche, Guinness Book of Records and Drifting.
However, in 2020, Porsche Experience instructor Dennis Retera in a Porsche Taycan set a record for an electric vehicle when he drifted 210 continuous laps at the Porsche Experience Centre Hockenheimring, covering 42.171 kilometres in 55 minutes.
The Porsche Taycan Drifts into the Guinness World Records
Then in January of this year Jens Richter gained another World Record for the longest continuous vehicle drift on ice by an electric vehicle when he completed a total of 132 laps (17.503 Kilometres) of the Porsche Arctic Centre ice track in Levi, Finland in controlled oversteer (better known as Drifting) in 46 minutes.
For the record attempt, the Porsche Experience team created a drift circle with a diameter of 59 meters and commercially available Michelin tyres with one-millimetre spikes were mounted on both axles of the Taycan GTS. The vehicle was also equipped with a professional GPS measuring device to measure the route precisely which not only documents the distance travelled but also records the driver’s actions such as steering wheel movements, accelerator and braking, and the G-forces acting on the vehicle.
Porsche Taycan Longest Vehicle Drift On Ice By An EV Guinness World Record
These Guinness World Records are just two of four Guinness World Records achieved by the electric Porsche Taycan since its release in 2019. In 2021 racing driver Leh Keen accelerated a Porsche Taycan to 165.1 km/h in an exhibition hall in New Orleans, Louisiana setting the record for the fastest speed driven by a vehicle in an enclosed building and in 2023, Porsche set another Guinness World Record title with the Taycan Cross Turismo along the Xinjiang-Tibet route, where at 5,573 metres, the model mastered the greatest altitude change by an electric car.
Image Courtesy Porsche Newsroom
