Quite an optimistic take on the situation, especially considering (from the article): the racing engineers are having trouble with the car's battery management

Quite an optimistic take on the situation, especially considering (from the article): the racing engineers are having trouble with the car's battery management software. Because the Model S doesn't know that it's a race car ... it starts to shut the battery down when it detects excess heat in the pack. Right now a Tesla on a track should be good in a 1/4 mile drag race, but is pretty much a joke for any serious number of laps. Here's a Car and Driver effort that found "by the exit of Snake, about 40 seconds into the lap, the 5010-pound P85D entered a reduced power mode (roughly half of the max)"[1]. The Tesla wound up finishing the lap with the same time as a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. [1]https://www.caranddriver.com/features/tesla-model-s-p85d-at-lightning-lap-2016-feature https://www.caranddriver.com/features/tesla-model-s-p85d-at-...