The Porsche Taycan has set Guinness World Report for longest drift by an electrical automobile, the automaker introduced Tuesday.

Porsche driving teacher Dennis Retera did 210 laps of a 200-meter skidpad with the rear wheels spinning gloriously. Porsche press launch stated the entrance wheels by no means pointed in the identical path because the curve, however that is probably hyperbole as fixed changes have to be made whereas drifting, and Retera drove for 55 minutes to set the document, overlaying 26.2 miles, with a mean pace of 28.5 mph.

The marathon document try was carried out on the Porsche Expertise Heart at Germany’s Hockenheimring racetrack.

Porsche used a base rear-wheel drive version of the Taycan, as rear-wheel drive makes drifting far simpler than all-wheel drive. The automotive used was a “pre-series” automobile, Porsche stated, however manufacturing fashions are already on sale in China. It is unclear if the rear-wheel drive Taycan might be dropped at the U.S., nonetheless. 

The try occurred underneath the supervision of Guinness World Data choose Joanne Brent, Porsche famous. An area land surveyor was introduced in to measure the skidpad, whereas GPS and yaw-rate sensors within the automotive, in addition to a digicam on observe’s management tower, had been used for documentation. A Nissan GT-R digicam automotive was used to movie a video of the try, which is embedded above.

The eye to element did not cease there. Porsche introduced in engineer and two-time European drifting champion Denise Ritzmann to independently certify that the automotive was in inventory situation, and to look at the drift.

Porsche has been desirous to show the efficiency capabilities of the Taycan, which is its first manufacturing electrical automotive. Previous to the Taycan’s September 2019 reveal, Porsche launched a video exhibiting the automotive lapping Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:42—a document for electrical vehicles—and performing 26 consecutive 0-124-0 mph runs.

The Taycan is not the general drifting-endurance champ, although. In 2018, a BMW M5 set the Guinness World Report for world’s longest drift at 232.5 miles, which required refueling the car mid-drift. Maybe Porsche can devise a system of charging on the transfer to permit for an extended drift.