{"id":34928,"date":"2025-08-29T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=34928"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:27:26","slug":"its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-supertruck-ford-f-150-ev-track-monster-rips-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-supertruck-ford-f-150-ev-track-monster-rips-nurburgring","title":{"rendered":"It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s SuperTruck: Ford F-150 EV track monster rips Nu\u0308rburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give this pickup a cape.<\/p>\n

Ford Performance took its electric Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck EV Demonstrator to the Nu\u0308rburgring, the world\u2019s most daunting race track, and set the fifth-fastest time ever recorded. Based on a similar platform to Ford\u2019s Transit SuperVan 4.2 that recently set the seventh-fastest time, SuperTruck is nearly 10 seconds faster than Ford\u2019s fastest production car, the Mustang GTD.<\/p>\n

The 6:43.5-minute lap around the so-called Green Hell\u2019s 12.9-mile circuit was nearly on par with the Porsche GT2 RS (6.43.3 minutes), the second-fastest production car to circle the track behind the Mercedes-AMG One at 6:29.1 minutes. The SuperTruck is one of three cyborgs, including the SuperVan and Super Mustang Mach-E, developed in Ford\u2019s EV Demonsrator program to push the limits of electrification.<\/p>\n

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Driver Romain Dumas with the Ford SuperVan 4.2 (left) and the F-150 Lightning SuperVan EV demonstrators at the Nu\u0308rburgring. Ford<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThat time represents something bigger than speed. It’s proof that when we go electric, we’re bringing everything Ford stands for with us,\u201d said Ford Performance Global Director Mark Rushbrook. \u201cWe build the future by testing it at the limit. It\u2019s called the ‘Green Hell’ for a reason. When our systems survive this punishment, they’re ready for whatever you throw at them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like SuperVan, SuperTruck was piloted by Romain Dumas, a two-time Le Mans 24-Hour winner. Dumas had already won the 2024 Pikes Peak Hillclimb in Colorado and the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb in the bespoke, track-focused truck. It has also set the Car and Diver Lightning Lap record at Virginia International Raceway.<\/p>\n

Despite weighting a hefty 4,000 pounds (estimated) and pushing a lot of air with its boxy truck proportions, SuperTruck achieved these feats with a staggering 2,200 horsepower, instant torque off corners, and 6,000 pounds of downforce \u2014 more than an IndyCar \u2014 at 150 mph from its giant rear wing and front splitter.<\/p>\n

SuperTruck also demonstrates the limitations of electric technology (in addition to its hefty curb weight, courtesy of a large battery). In its Lightning Lap VIR configuration, for example, the SuperTruck sucked down 60% of a charge in one 4.2-mile lap and required a stream of dry-ice-cooled air to quickly chill its heat exchangers between runs. Though Ford didn\u2019t provide details, even more robust measures would have been needed for the over three-times-longer Nu\u0308rburgring lap.<\/p>\n

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The Ford F-150 Lightning SuperVan EV demonstrator set a record up Pikes Peak in 2024. Ford<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Competitions like the 24 Hours of Nu\u0308rburgring are a long way off. But Rushbrook said SuperTruck is focused on engineering learnings.<\/p>\n

The production Ford F-150 Lightning, which shares little with the carbon-fiber-body, tube-frame, winged Lightning SuperTruck, is the first electric version of Ford’s best-selling pickup. Ford said racing SuperTruck helps accelerate aerodynamic and battery learnings crucial to the Lightning\u2019s development.<\/p>\n