How do you get people to take your electric supercar seriously? Set a lap record
A Japanese electric supercar will head to the Nürburgring to attack the legendary German racetrack’s lap record. TheAspark Owlwill hit the track in March 2020, Aspark boss Masanori Yoshida said in an interview with Top Gear. A lap record would give newcomer Aspark some credibility, and strike another blow for electric cars against internal combustion. Aspark didn’t specify which lap record it would aim for, but it’s probably safe to rule out the overall record set by the Porsche 919 Hybrid, or the electric record set by theVolkswagen ID RThose records were set by purpose-built race cars, but the Owl is a production model (albeit a very extreme one)....