Yahoo Autos Setting a Goodwood Festival of Speed Record Looks Like Seriously Hard Work
Driving a McLaren P1 LM last year, Indy 500 winner Kenny Bräck set the record for a road-legal car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. He ran up Goodwood's famous hill in 47.07 seconds, and if you haven't seen the footage, please take a moment and watch. Now, Goodwood brings us an onboard video of Bräck's record run.
What can we learn from this? For starters, Bräck is a seriously talented and brave dude. The Goowdood hillclimb is notoriously bumpy and narrow, and you can see that he's got to work hard to keep the car on the road.
Judging by the sound and the shift lights on the gauge cluster, Bräck is short shifting for most of this run. This is probably done so the P1 LM's 986 horsepower doesn't overwhelm the rear wheels. Also, you can get away with short shifting in this car, thanks to the huge torque of its twin-turbo V8 and electric motors.
Bräck was recently spotted testing the P1 LM at the Nurburgring, possibly making a record attempt. Given the way Bräck monsters the Goodwood hillclimb, we'd say he has a pretty good shot of driving the P1 LM to Nurburgring glory.
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