While we’ve made it to the halfway point, the light at the end of the tunnel is still pretty far away for the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports.
Having more experience on track at NCM Motorsports Park allowed Andy to focus more on how the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N handles at speed.
More specifically, …
Interesting, how did the regen pedal effect braking performance and turn-in?
It's just very abrupt, so I was finding it easy to upset the soft chassis unless I was really careful lifting off the throttle. It means the car turns in great and wants to rotate, but that's not always what you want on track.
I've enjoyed the ability on the eGolf to tune regen via the side-to-side regen adjustment, or just slapping it into 'B' mode for full one-pedal.
i thought the Hyundai's had flappy paddles to adjust regen?
It does! I'd been running with it adjusted to zero, but after getting used to it I'm now comfortable (and faster than Andy 😎 at VIR) running at level two out of three possible regen intensities.
One other theory we have for the difference in battery usage is that on heavy, straight braking zones in One Lap, I tend to just hammer the ABS after initial brake application and let the computer do the braking. I know some cars will disable regen and use only the friction brakes during "emergency" braking, so that might be what's happening.
Tom looking very cool in that last picture modeling the new GRM Columbia Corner Work Hat.
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