Jaguar is about to ship the I-Tempo to the US and within the meantime, it’s having some enjoyable of its personal with the all-electric automobile on US race tracks.
The British automaker claims a brand new manufacturing EV document lap time on the Laguna Seca race monitor in California – kind of beating Tesla autos within the course of.
I say ‘kind of’ as a result of it may be controversial relying on what you contemplate a “manufacturing EV”. The driving force also can make an enormous distinction.
Jaguar put skilled race automobile driver Randy Pobst in a Photon Purple 2019 Jaguar I-PACE HSE First Version with “no modifications in anyway” and he accomplished his document lap in 1:48.18.
We reported simply final month that a Tesla Mannequin S P100D breaking that very same document with a 1:47.62 time, but it surely went kind of below the radar as a result of Lucid Motors was driving the car as a part of the event program for its personal car.
Now Jaguar says that the car featured some gentle modifications and subsequently, it could declare the document with the I-Tempo, which is truthful since I doubt that Lucid Motors goes to contest it.
You may watch Pobst’s full document lap with the I-Tempo on Motortrend’s channel:
Electrek’s Take
Good on Jaguar. The I-Tempo provides some spectacular efficiency as an SUV – in case you can name it that.
That mentioned, I’m fairly assured that this document goes to be overwhelmed once more within the coming months.
We’ve got seen Tesla house owners getting instances round 1:48 with inventory autos for years. If you happen to had been to place a professional driver behind the wheel of a inventory Mannequin S P100D or a Mannequin 3 Efficiency, I’m fairly positive they might beat that point.
We reported final month on a Tesla Mannequin 3 RWD with small mods getting a time of 1:48.667.
But it surely doesn’t take something away from the I-Tempo, which I feel goes to do nicely within the US.