---
title: "Electric GT’s Tesla Model S Race Car Does 0-60 MPH in 2.1 Seconds"
description: "And whips up one hell of a smokeshow."
date: "2017-01-17"
modified: "2017-01-17"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6995/electric-gts-tesla-model-s-race-car-does-0-60-mph-in-2-1-seconds"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Tesla News"
tags:
  - "Electric GT"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "luxury"
  - "model s"
  - "race cars"
  - "sedan"
  - "Tesla"
---

# Electric GT’s Tesla Model S Race Car Does 0-60 MPH in 2.1 Seconds

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With four doors and a curb weight north of two tons, the Tesla Model S may not seem like the ideal platform to base a race car build around. But that hasn't stopped the team behind [the Electric GT Championship series](<https://www.motor1.com/news/133647/electric-gt-tesla-model-s-revealed/>), who've managed to strip down and soup up Elon Musk's battery-powered luxury sedan into a fully-caged competition machine designed to tear up tracks around the world.

The Electric GT series was first announced almost a year ago, when [the organizers declared they would base the series around the discontinued Model S P85+](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/2509/new-tesla-model-s-racing-series-to-launch-next-year>). Since then, however, the series has decided to instead use the newer, more potent P100 version as the foundation for their single-make racing series. In race spec, [the EGT Model S has been stripped of more than half a ton of fat](<https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55f7021de4b0f8a9c688eff7/t/584e8ff3e3df28e18003655c/1481543669061/new_P100.pdf>), and the electric motors tuned up to generate a whopping 778 horsepower and 734 pound-feet of torque. That, according to the series, is enough to catapult the race car from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 2.1 seconds—enough to [leave even the upcoming Ludicrous+ P100 in the dust](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/798980894543343616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>).

And as former Le Mans winner-turned-Electric GT driver Olivier Lombard proved while showing off the car's stuff at the 2017 Autosport International Show in Birmingham, England this past weekend, all that power means the race-spec Model S can lay down one hell of a rolling burnout.

https://twitter.com/_/status/820389382054146049

The inaugural season of the new racing series will kick off later this year, with 10 co-ed teams driving identical Model S racers at seven events on European circuits—including the Nurburgring, Paul Ricard, and Barcelona-Catalunya—and a trio of exhibition races in the Western Hemisphere. We, for one, are looking forward to seeing how well the Model S holds up...and quietly hoping Electric GT lets us take a crack behind the wheel.

![message-editor%2F1484691464269-dsc\_0081.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1484691464269-dsc_0081.jpg>)

![message-editor%2F1484691472275-egt\_ib\_life\_jm\_0002.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1484691472275-egt_ib_life_jm_0002.jpg>)

![message-editor%2F1484691480786-dsc\_0147.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1484691480786-dsc_0147.jpg>)

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
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