Porsche sets new Guinness World Record on ice

The Porsche Taycan GTS has set a new Guinness World Records title for the longest continuous vehicle drift on ice by an EV. Jens Richter, behind the wheel of the electric sports car, managed to complete a total of 132 laps, covering exactly 17.503km in 46 minutes.

Under the supervision of an official Guinness World Records adjudicator, the drive took place on an ice track at the Porsche Arctic Centre in Levi, Finland. For the successful record attempt, the Porsche Experience team created a drift circle with a diameter of 59m and mounted commercially available Michelin tyres with one-millimetre spikes on both axles of the Taycan GTS.

The Porsche Ice Experience has been in Finnish Lapland since 1996, and in Levi since 2014

The vehicle was equipped with a professional GPS measuring device that documented the precise distance travelled, as well as recording the driver's actions such as steering wheel movements, accelerator and braking, and the G-forces acting on the vehicle.

This is the electric sports car's fourth Guinness World Records title, having previously mastered the greatest altitude change (5,573m) by an EV in 2023 with the Taycan Cross Turismo along the Xinjiang-Tibet route. The Taycan also holds the record for the fastest speed driven by a vehicle in an enclosed building (165.1km/h in an exhibition hall in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2021) and for the longest drift with an EV (exactly 210 laps at the Porsche Experience Centre, Hockenheimring, covering 42.171km in 55 minutes in 2020).