Volkswagen ID.R sets new electric Nurburgring lap record

Following up on

its EV record at Pikes Peak

, the

Volkswagen ID.R

has set another

electric car

record time. This record is a lap of

the Nurburgring Nordschleife

with

a 6:05.336 time

. The car was driven by Romain Dumas, who also set the Pikes Peak record.

Volkswagen

also noted that Dumas and the ID.R had an average speed of a little over 128 mph.

The ID.R’s time thoroughly smashes the time of the previous fastest

EV

at the circuit,

the Nio EP9

. The electric

supercar

was about 40 seconds slower than the Volkswagen. Of course, the comparison isn’t completely fair, since the Nio EP9 is a road car, and the ID.R is a pure race car.

Perhaps more impressive than even the EV record is that the ID.R now has the second fastest lap of the ‘Ring, period. It edged out the 1983 time of 6:11.13 set in a

Porsche

956 C race car. Only the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo LMP1 race car is faster, with

its shocking 5:19.55 lap

set by Timo Bernhard.