Tesla has reclaimed the manufacturing EV lap document on the well-known Nürburgring race monitor with a brand new Mannequin S Plaid outfitted with the Observe bundle.

Nürburgring has been a combating floor for Tesla and Porsche over the previous few years.

After Porsche introduced its brand-new Taycan electrical automobile to the Nürburgring racetrack to interrupt a document in 2019, Tesla CEO Elon Musk determined to make use of the well-known proving grounds for the electrical automaker’s personal newest efficiency car.

Tesla began testing early Mannequin S Plaid prototypes on the monitor and achieved some spectacular lap occasions. Nonetheless, the car was delayed, and it didn’t launch till two years later.

In 2021, Tesla introduced its then brand-new manufacturing model Mannequin S Plaid to the Nürburgring monitor and beat Porsche’s document with a powerful 7:35.579 lap.

A yr later, Porsche regained the quickest manufacturing EV lap on the monitor with a Taycan Turbo S managing the shave 2 seconds off Tesla’s time.

Albeit technically a manufacturing automobile, the Porsche with a really particular “efficiency package” that helped it obtain this document.

Tesla was anticipated to have the ability to beat it when its personal long-delayed “Observe Package deal” grew to become out there.

Certain sufficient, the brand new brakes and tires bundle is now out there and Tesla confirmed that it was in a position to beat the Nürburgring manufacturing EV document with a Mannequin S Plaid outfitted with the bundle:

It not solely beat Porsche’s document, nevertheless it did it by a major 8-second distinction.

Right here’s a video of the lap that did it:

When Tesla first introduced the Mannequin S Plaid, its new top-performance flagship electrical car, the automaker promised a prime velocity of 200 mph (322 km/h). Nonetheless, when it was first delivered final yr, the car “solely” featured a prime velocity of 163 mph (262 km/h).

Final yr, Tesla launched a brand new “Observe Mode” for the Mannequin S Plaid that pushed the highest velocity to 175 mph (282 km/h).

It appeared that the brakes had been the limiting issue. Tesla didn’t need to unlock greater prime speeds with out the electrical supercar having greater brakes that may have the ability to gradual it down after reaching this new prime velocity.

Tesla began to supply to improve the brakes with a carbon ceramic package for $20,000 final yr, however the automaker has but to put in the brand new brakes on Mannequin S Plaid.

Final summer time, we reported on a Tesla Mannequin S Plaid breaking a 200 mph prime velocity for the primary time after being hacked by the proprietor to take away Tesla’s velocity limiter. It truly achieved a prime velocity of 216 mph (348 km/h); it regarded prefer it may have gone quicker, however they had been working out of tarmac and braking house – regardless of having upgraded the brakes themselves with third-party brakes.

Now Tesla’s personal ceramic brakes, new race tire, and wheel upgrades are all out there, Tesla is anticipated to permit Mannequin S Plaid house owners to unlock these capabilities underneath “monitor mode”.