Finally 12 months’s Goodwood Competition of Pace, the Rimac Nevera was topped the quickest street-legal manufacturing automobile to go up the well-known hill. The electrical hypercar accomplished the 1.16-mile course with its 9 turns in a blistering 49.32 seconds. Sadly for Croatia’s final EV, America is now the report holder with a automotive powered by a combustion engine.
With Chris Ward behind the wheel, the Czinger 21C crossed the end line in solely 48.83 seconds. Though the hybrid beast is the quickest manufacturing street automotive to lap Goodwood hill climb, it’s miles from the quickest general. That honor goes to the insanely fast McMurtry Spéirling, a single-seater EV. In 2022, former F1 driver Max Chilton lapped the quick observe in 39.08 seconds, making it 9.75 seconds quicker.
Eagle-eyed viewers will discover that by the top of the run, one of many automotive’s facet mirrors was dangling from the physique following a minor affect with a haystack. That in all probability had a slight destructive affect on the aerodynamic effectivity, however the Czinger 21C nonetheless managed to shave almost half a second off the Rimac Nevera’s run.
Though technically a manufacturing automotive, solely 80 items are being made. That makes it significantly extra unique than the Rimac Nevera of which 150 examples are to be assembled. Designed and manufactured in California, the brand new report holder makes use of a 2.88-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine that revs to 11,000 rpm mixed with two front-mounted electrical motors to ship a complete output of 1,250 horsepower.
The record-breaking run was carried out with a daily 21C however Czinger additionally sells a 21C V Max that may attain 253 mph as a substitute of 219 mph. As well as, there is a 21C Blackbird because the highest-performance variant with 1,350 hp on faucet. This track-focused by-product is the rarest of all of them, restricted to simply 4 automobiles.
