Koenigsegg has formally retaken the hallowed 0-400-0 km/h document set slightly below a month in the past by fellow hypercar producer Rimac. Koenigsegg manufacturing facility driver Markus Lundh accomplished the feat in a scarcely plausible 25.21 seconds whereas driving the 1,500-horsepower Jesko Absolut. This barn-storming time bests Rimac’s short-lived benchmark by simply 0.58 seconds.
Alongside the 0-400-0 (0-249-0 mph) document, Koenigsegg concurrently set a brand new 0-250-0 mph benchmark of 17.18 seconds to as soon as once more set up the Jesko Absolut because the quickest absolutely homologated manufacturing automobile on the planet. In its official announcement, the Swedish producer did not even acknowledge Rimac by identify, merely referring to the electrical hypercar within the class of “everybody else,” whereas declaring it had crushed its personal time set final 12 months. Extremely, Koenigsegg additionally instructed there might but be extra within the tank, given the “sub-optimal situations” below which the brand new document was set at a still-drying Örebro airfield on 7 August following an earlier rain bathe.
Software program Let Koenigsegg Retake The File With Nothing However RWD
Koenigsegg confirms that the brand new document was all the way down to “new and improved software program methods” on the Absolut. These upgrades embody a small adjustment to Koenigsegg’s Gentle Pace Transmission – a nine-speed, ultra-light, multi-clutch unit that may shift between gears in mere milliseconds – and delicate tweaks to the engine administration system. This included a brand new torque management system that supplied a hair extra grunt within the low revs, and thus, extra traction from the Absolut’s preliminary launch.
The upgrades will now be made obtainable to buyer vehicles, that means each Jesko Absolut proprietor can brag about what their automobile is able to.
No different upgrades have been made to the Jesko’s 5.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 for this document; it boasted its factory-spec 1,500 hp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque (on E85). Extremely, this planetary grunt allowed the Jesko to hit 249 mph in simply 16.77 seconds from a standstill, and 250 mph in simply 17.18 seconds. Unsurprisingly, the carbon-ceramic braking system proved equally savage. The Jesko was in a position to decelerate from 250 to a standstill in simply 8.49 seconds, and from 249 mph to a halt five-thousandths of a second faster. These official information have been verified on-site by impartial adjudicators, Racelogic.
Data Damaged By The Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut
- 0-400-0 km/h – 25.21 seconds
- 0-400 km/h – 16.77 seconds
- 400-0 km/h – 8.44 seconds
- 0-250-0 mph – 25.67 seconds
- 0-250 mph – 17.18 seconds
- 250-0 mph – 8.49 seconds
The Ongoing ‘Warfare’ That Started In 2017
Koenigsegg’s new document is simply the most recent chapter in an admittedly amiable combat for honors between the Swedish model and arch-rival Rimac, one which began with a positively pedestrian 33.29-second run by Koenigsegg’s Agera RS in Nevada in November 2017. Although Koenigsegg lowered this benchmark to 31.49 seconds with the Regera in September 2019, Rimac entered the chat in Could 2023 with a blistering 29.92-second run with the Nevera at ATP Papenburg in Germany. This time can be bested by the Koenigsegg Jesko Asbolut – additionally with Lindh on the wheel – in June 2024 (27.83 seconds) earlier than Rimac posted a seemingly insurmountable 25.79 seconds simply final month. Absolutely it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the honored 25-second mark is damaged…
Curiously, a remark in Koenigsegg’s official launch – {that a} combustion-engined, rear-wheel drive hypercar having the ability to beat an all-wheel-drive electrical monster with speedy torque to the document is a “magical” achievement – mirrors an identical sentiment shared by CEO Christian von Koenigsegg throughout an unique CarBuzz interview on the current Goodwood Competition of Pace. On the time, Koenigsegg said that, in all probability, it could be the model’s all-wheel-drive, 2,300-horsepower Gemera that stepped as much as the plate in opposition to the Nevera R, however that “simply by software program,” the RWD Jekso Absolut may take yet another shot on the king.
Responding on social media to the information, Rimac CEO Mate Rimac stated, “Should say I believed that the Nevera R document would stand longer. The R is a rocket ship with unbelievable acceleration. However I suppose… sport on 😬💪”
Mate wasted no time in publishing a video congratulating Christian and his group, promising that his engineers can be exhausting at work and that nobody can be standing nonetheless. “Sport on!” he stated with a smile.
“Our software program engineers have been tweaking and adjusting the Gentle Pace Transmission & Engine Administration system and have launched a brand new torque management system which manages the grip of the Absolut like by no means earlier than. That we obtain this stage of efficiency with a manufacturing automobile using a combustion engine with rear wheel drive solely – beating all 4-wheel drive electrical vehicles in a straight line is nearly magical and present that ‘truths’ might be rewritten.”
– Christian von Koenigsegg
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