Rimac breaks the record for being able to drive a car backwards the fastest

‘My grass! He’s driving on my lawn!’, Gen Z might not say much. What? do you have more life experience? Then of course you heard André van Duin’s voice right now On Land, Sea and Sky in backward discipline. What would such a race at Zandvoort look like? Perhaps it would be interesting to try that with the car that holds the record for fastest recovery: the Rimac Nevera.

Officials of the Guinness dark beer drinking record were ready to see if Nevera could go faster than the previous record. That was in the name of Daren Manning in the Caterham Fireblade 7. Manning reached a speed of 165.08 km/h in reverse. Today, the Rimac Nevera breaks the record for driving in the opposite direction.

Behind the wheel of Nevera is Goran Drndak. He says: ‘During the run itself I had to get used to it. You look straight back and see the environment coming away from you faster and faster, as you feel your neck being pulled forward with almost the same sensation you would normally get under heavy braking.’ Fortunately, he manages to keep the EV on the road.

No limit?

Most electric cars have a rear limiter. Rimac doesn’t say anything about it, but of course they had to disable the limit in the software. Another thing to consider is aerodynamics; it also doesn’t work as intended on the contrary and this can lead to complications. Fortunately it was not.

The highest speed record for driving in reverse

Engineer Matija Renić says that the idea of ​​breaking the driving record was ignored. “But then we started talking about how fun it would be to try,” says Renić. A speed of 240 km / h seems possible, but about that area is not known. The record is still very high. Drndak reaches the speed of 275.74 km/h.