{"id":222907,"date":"2018-06-24T22:09:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/?p=222907"},"modified":"2018-06-24T22:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:09:39","slug":"volkswagen-i-d-r-breaks-overall-pikes-peak-record-7min-57-148s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2018\/06\/24\/volkswagen-i-d-r-breaks-overall-pikes-peak-record-7min-57-148s\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen I.D. R Breaks Overall Pikes Peak Record – a 7min 57.148s!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, Volkswagen obliterated the Pikes Peak record earlier today with a staggering sub-8 minute time. It is the first time that any car has completed the course in under 8 minutes. Volkswagen’s run even beats that of S\u00e9bastien Loeb back in 2013 with the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak.<\/p>\n

Loeb’s previous record stood at a lofty 8:13.878. Volkswagen’s new time shaves more than 15 seconds off, leaving the German company with a 7 minute 57.148 second record.<\/p>\n

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The car was driven by Le Mans and endurance racing legend Romain Dumas at the Colorado mountain event. Dumas improved on his 2014, 2016 and 2017 winning times by a considerable margin, nor doubt due to the car he found at his fingertips.<\/p>\n

The Volkswagen I.D. R Pikes Peak Prototype is an all-electric race car. It comes equipped with the equivalent of 671 bhp, weighs less than 1,100 kg, and achieves a 0-62 mph time of 2.25 seconds and top speed of 149 mph. It is hard to think of a car so well suited to hill climbing.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere during the event, we understand that Bentley also broke another Pikes Peak record with a 10:49.902 second run for the W12 Bentley Bentayga. The previous record for a production SUV was held by the Range Rover Sport with a 12:35.61 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, Volkswagen obliterated the Pikes Peak record earlier today with a staggering sub-8 minute time. It is the first time that any car has completed the course in under 8 minutes. Volkswagen’s run even beats that of S\u00e9bastien Loeb back in 2013 with the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak. Loeb’s previous record stood at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":222908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36094],"tags":[10,1567],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}