VW’s ID R was already known to be a super-fast car, but now it has further proof. The car obliterated the EV Nurburgring time<\/a>. It smashed the record by cutting off 40 seconds from the old record.<\/strong> 40 seconds. Good Lord that’s a lot of time. It’s actually the second fastest car ever to make the lap of the racetrack. <\/p>\n The car manages to lay down a 6:05.3 lap time, which puts the Nio EP9 securely in the rearview. Forget the Nio, the ID R is the new king by a long shot. The only car that’s beaten the ID R’s lap time is the 919 EVO with a time of five minutes and 19 seconds,<\/strong> according to Car Throttle<\/a>. That means we’ll need to update our list of top Nurburgring lap times<\/a>.<\/p>\n “For this evolved version of the ID R, the aerodynamic configuration was more strongly adapted to the highest possible speed, rather than maximum downforce,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Demaison, the program\u2019s tech boss. By not worrying quite so much about downforce, the car was truly able to fly around the racetrack.<\/strong><\/p>\n The reduction in downforce may have raised top speed, but that would have made the car a little less stable around the corners. Still, it doesn’t seem to have mattered. Romain Dumas,<\/strong> the French racing driver who set the pike’s peak record in the ID R last year, was obviously able to handle it. <\/p>\n