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I.D. R Breaks Electric Record at Goodwood Hillclimb

Another Hillclimb, another record for VW. The brand that destroyed the overall record at Pikes Peak a scant three weeks ago was back at it this weekend, smashing more records.

Running the Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb in just 43.86 seconds, the I.D. R is the fastest electric car ever to hit the Hillclimb course. In fact, it beat the previous record by more than three seconds, which on a course this short, is a sizeable improvement.

Unfortunately, it still wasn’t enough to earn Volkswagen the overall record, which is still held by Nick Heidfeld in a McLaren F1 car from 1999 from back in F1’s heady V10 days.

Still, Volkswagen is proud of Romain Dumas’s driving and the I.D. R, which did, after all, break the record they announced they would be racing for.

“The I.D. R Pikes Peak has once again proven emphatically that it is a fantastic ambassador for our fully-electric I.D. family,” said Dr. Herbert Diess, the Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. “I would like to thank the whole team. After the great success on Pikes Peak, at Goodwood we have shown once again how impressive the performance of an electric racing car can be. That is a very good preparation for our great electric car offensive which is starting next year.”

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