Watch The Czinger 21C Set A New Production Car Record At The Goodwood Hill Climb
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This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed saw the outrageous Ford SuperVan claim the fastest hill climb time of the weekend, running up the hill in just 43.98 seconds. Sadly, that wasn’t enough to take the overall record crown from the McMurtry Spéirling, but there was a broken record in another major category. The Czinger 21C, an American hybrid hypercar built using groundbreaking 3D-printing technology, set a new record for the fastest road-legal production car to ever sprint up the Goodwood hill.
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The 21C set a time of 48.83 seconds, beating out the Rimac Nevera, the previous record holder, by about a second and a half. To put that into perspective, the 21C’s run up the 1.16-mile-long course was almost as quick as Alpine’s A110 Pikes Peak car, and it’s seconds quicker than supercars like the Lotus Evija, McLaren P1 and Koenigsegg One:1.
Czinger 21C sets new Goodwood Hill record
In case you need a refresher, the Czinger is a mid-engine two-seater, with occupants sitting in a tandem position like in a fighter jet. It’s powered by a proprietary twin-turbo 2.9-liter V8 with a flat-plane crank and a hybrid system made up of three electric motors and a 2-kWh battery pack. Total output is 1,250 horsepower, and nearly every component of the car is built using parent company Divergent’s innovative 3D-printing technology.
Goodwood isn’t the only lap record the 21C has claimed. Back in 2021, Czinger broke the production-car record at Laguna Seca, and it also held the record at COTA for a short while. I wouldn’t expect Czinger to be resting on its laurels, either. Production of the 21C has already begun, with the first deliveries of its 80-unit run set to commence later this summer, and the car has changed quite a bit since it was first unveiled. If big wings and track day prowess aren’t your thing, the 21C can be spec’d in a longtail V Max configuration that’s more about top speed and comfort.
