Porsche Taycan GTS drifts on ice for 46 minutes in a row

The silent non-stop drift in Finland was over 10 miles long. A world record.

Porsche Taycan: New Guinness World Record title on ice

Photo by: Porsche

By: Manuel Lehbrink

Published by: Brian Potter

Jan 31, 2025 at 3:11am ET

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The Porsche Taycan has just set its fourth Guinness World Record. All it took was a trip to the Arctic Centre in Lavi, Finland. And a driver who was prepared to drive in circles for minutes on end.

Earlier this month, Porsche Experience instructor Jens Richter set a new world record for the longest uninterrupted drift on ice in an electric vehicle. The vehicle in question was a Porsche Taycan GTS with studded tyres. The new record is 132 laps with a total of 17.503 kilometres (10.875 miles) in 46 minutes. The drive took place on 14 January, but the record was only broken on the second attempt.

"Under the extreme continuous load of the drifting Taycan, the ice track degraded faster than expected. We therefore had to abort the first attempt after around 11 kilometres."

Jens Richter - Porsche Experience instructor

For the second attempt, Porsche switched to tyres with shorter studs, taking advantage of the fact that the ice temperature dropped again as darkness fell. And it worked, as Richter only had to use the throttle and steering.

Gallery: Porsche Taycan: New Guinness World Record title on ice

Porsche Taycan: New Guinness World record title on ice

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The track on which the record was set was a circle 59 metres in diameter. For the successful record attempt, the car was fitted with standard Michelin tyres with one-millimetre studs. To record the data, Porsche used a professional GPS measurement device that recorded distance, acceleration, braking and G-forces. The new ice drift record beats the previous record of just under 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) set by Wang Zhilong in a Mercedes-Benz EV in China in February 2023.

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And what about the Taycan's other three records? In 2023, Porsche's Taycan Cross Turismo achieved the highest altitude ever covered by an electric car, at 5,355 metres along the Xinjiang-Tibet route. However, this record has since been beaten by a Hyundai Ioniq 5.

In 2021, racing driver Leh Keen accelerated a Porsche Taycan to 102.6 mph in an exhibition hall in New Orleans in the US state of Louisiana. In doing so, he set the world record for the fastest speed driven by a vehicle in a closed building. And in 2020, Porsche Experience instructor Dennis Retera drifted exactly 210 laps in a Taycan at the Porsche Experience Centre (PEC) on the Hockenheimring, covering 42.171 kilometres (26.1 miles) in 55 minutes.

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