Koenigsegg Regera on Monaco GP Track! | Nico Rosberg

Good morning everyone here from Monaco. I have Rubén at home. Our rock star cameraman. I have Ollie, who you also know. Today is the day because today I will finally be able to drive the Koenigsegg Regera that I saw for the first time. Geneva many, many years ago where Christian is a foreigner and as you've seen in recent posts here on my YouTube channel I did a podcast with him and if you haven't seen that video go watch it because the podcast was amazing with christian von

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and yeah here it is I can't see it yet and zero to 400 in 21 seconds which is a world record so this car is absolutely crazy and here is the beast the beast is there blind for me just or not . but it looks like one in eight ultra carbon special edition to me um and I didn't know about this I even think it's one of one it's one of one yeah ollie says it's one of one oh my gosh I think this is the which I saw in Geneva at that time by coincidence, but phenomenal, so this full carbon spec is at a glance, even the rims, this is unreal, full carbon, unreal stuff, phenomenal, look at that inside, look even All in all, 100 carbon, a very, very cool design, it's my first time sitting in a Koenigsegg.

I have never, ever been inside the codex egg. So it's my first time and what I'm going to show you as well is this Christian from Koenigsegg. Phenomenal attention to detail. You can start to see the way the door opens. the door system opens like carbon, even in the smallest details, you can see the door right there, carving everything to perfection, active aerodynamics too, so we have this big rear spoiler, active aerodynamics, you surely have everything The entire rear part is also active, let's take a look there. Wow, look, the exhaust guys really like the most efficient form of exhaust I've ever seen.

I don't know how he made that work. How to keep the air flowing there without losing too much power by making such a small outlet shape which is quite impressive so you can see it works in every detail even the aerodynamics here around this part what is that part anyway ? Oh, okay, that's the cooling coming out of there, so uniform. massive aerodynamic solutions, like an F1 car, like an F1 car here with these shark fins over there, okay, now I guess we're going to jump, okay, Frederick, right, yeah, let me come in very carefully so I don't scratch me This is the most surprising thing, does it have a PTFE tape?

Yeah, so I was really worried about scratching this carbon, but of course it has helicopter tape so I don't need to worry about that, yeah. so please explain to me how to get started on this, yes it's nice I mean it's an advanced car but it's pretty easy to drive so it starts stopping the onion so press once without the brake and then you wake up the car, yes, everything comes to life so that the whole car has just come to life here, yes, now it has just woken up so that you can drive in pure ev mode, electric mode is now on, yes, it is now in electric mode exactly and that's pretty basic, okay, hit the brakes and grind. uh up on the right side so we're ready to go I guess so a really nice grip on the steering wheel feels really cool spicy that's cool okay so I took my shoes off so like that is seen now. to make sure I don't scratch anything so what's the first stop Ollie the Monaco and then we go up the mountain seriously oh beautiful beautiful beautiful so the engine's on the handbrake.

Aha, man, I'm sure I'm not going to get going, disengage the handbrake, no, that was the windshield wiper, oh, it automatically disengaged, okay, here we go, okay, watch out for the oh, it's amazing, amazing, so cool, wait, wait, wait, that had quite a bit of handling that had quite a bit of handling during a skier, what a phenomenal, phenomenal car, okay, now we're getting to the F1

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, here, come on, start of the race , there's no point in going crazy with the equipment, the door system is sick, absolutely sick, like sci-fi, okay, so are you ready to, are you ready to hit? ghost mode three two one just kidding that was just uh I was just testing them three two one what am I doing wrong you have to double click on it it actually says down there I'm not on camera oh I'm so sorry no carbon keys here twice, this thing is like on another planet, so Kim, please explain to us how there are no gears in this car, there are no gears, um, and there is a torque motor, and how that works, please, and let's take the example of me.

I'm doing 150 km/h and I'm accelerating, yeah, okay, so I'll probably be in the mid rpm range at that point, yeah, and then how much will it be? There will be five, so I'm going full power. Yes, of course, the electric motor is going to give it its all and the engine too at 3500 rpm. Yeah, okay, what happens now? The upper converter releases the inside of the clutch and lets through all the engine power that can be generated. Yes, directly to the differential, yes, and then in the differentials there are two other electric motors that also help the car accelerate, but now, if we don't have any gears, there will be very poor engine performance because the gear ratio will be too long. since it needs to last up to 400km/h, yes, so what does it do to give me a much shorter gear ratio in theory?

At the 150 km/h I'm still at, that's the trick of the torque converter. The torque converter is like a wear-free clutch, so it can slip a little so the engine rpm can increase and then transform the power directly to the differential or the rear wheels, yes, but I'm at 3500 rpm, yes, but the engine is not going to accelerate if you imagine going like a manual car, yeah, it's like you have the clutch half pressed, yeah, so the ref can come off the engine, yeah, and you can accelerate, okay? and then you slowly die down, oh, then at like 250 I'll be at full revs and then it's just the torque motor that does the rest.

Yes, seriously, that's sick. I'm starting to understand it now, so up to 150, most of it is done. from the torque motor to the top converter at relatively low rpm, yes, so we are at 3000, so the rpm will stay quite low, yes, up to 150. It's all done from the torque converter in terms of actual gearing, dynamically changing the transmission ratio. on the road exactly and then when I get to 150 the torque motor completely locks up exactly, direct transfer to the differential to the tires, yes, and then the rest is done with the rpm. I got it. Would this car be faster if it had? gears too yes of course yes but you don't have any gears so yes ok but you would still have the added advantage of the torque converter plus gears you would probably be even faster.

Christian's main idea was to make it more efficient for a gearbox to lose between seven and fifteen percent of power and fuel efficiency, yes, and for that reason he said he didn't want to lose that much efficiency or that much energy in a gearbox. of gears, that's why he wanted to get rid of the gearbox. Yeah, and they've gotten more efficient, yeah, yeah, efficiency is a big thing, also fuel efficiency and everything big too, okay, phenomenal, thank you very much, I think our viewers and I got it, man , which a technologically advanced battery cannot be. seen as usual and it's down on the center console and of course you can see how it appears there, that's because the cells are going to end up there and they're going to go all the way up there and of course the battery, the case of course.

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themselves make it, uh, carbon casing, but the inside of the cells, the design and everything and the cooling system is made by re mac um, as you know, I'm a big fan of re mac and uh, and the own colleague also said that he is a big admirer of the Christian foreign executive, what I can see that they have in common is this passion for perfection, innovation, being the best in the world, doing things like no one has ever done before and only this attention to detail is really almost, I mean it's extreme, it's really extreme, but just incredible, one more little fact, so of course the roof can be removed manually.

I'll find out later how much it weighs and then you can store it in this front luggage compartment. it has a perfect fit in the front trunk, the roof, so how cool please before we start the fuel is e85 which is ethanol so it is a plant based fuel which of course also in terms of using our resources is already a lot better than making fuel from oil of course okay so enough of the pictures blah blah let's put this car into action now in the mountains omg so Oh my god, you know it's amazing, this thing is glued to the road.

Incredible, you can feel like you can. I feel like the center of gravity is so low, the aerodynamics are so good and the mechanical grip is phenomenal, so it's glued to the road. This is incredible, I mean, in the corners on the bombs. I don't think I've ever felt a grip like that. a previously unreal road car, so I applaud for that and the engine of course is also cool, it's probably, I mean super high tech in terms of the engine, like the last thing you can feel is the latest technology, the maximum performance, engineering, performance, also the engine, but it's um because there's more going on, you know, with the turbo charging, with the rpm slowly increasing and the torque motor doing most of the ratio increase at the beginning to give you more horsepower, so there's a lot going on.

It's probably not as pure as a direct transfer aspirated v12 Laferrari but you still know you still feel incredible power of course more power than the Laferrari and just spectacular to drive spectacular so in terms of the powertrain there is a difference. There's more going on, you know, there's the turbo coming in and then there's also in the first phase, the rpm just slowly increasing and the power transmission increasing through the clutch, engaging more, which is the torque engine in a sense, you already know. So there are a lot of things happening that are different than, for example, the Ferrari, which just has direct acceleration, you know, very transparent.

More rpm is more power and that's it, but as a result, there's more potential in this, you know, more. Overall power in total as a result of all this high technology in the powertrain, is very, very impressive, can I turn around? Hello, can I come now, come on, come on, let's hit it? I just had a big epiphany moment, you know, I've been fighting this problem with the key all day, not that if you put the key in there it works, but if you put it in your pocket or whatever, the car doesn't work anymore. recognizes it and I couldn't understand how you put it there. and it just falls off and I could understand come on koenigsegg you must have thought of everything why haven't you thought of that and I just had the epiphany moment now solution turn it over and then you have the magnet and then it sticks there and it doesn't fall off and the Granny police ran by just as I was opening the door downstairs, that was scary but there are good sensors so the door detected that there was a granny, sorry for this rubbish, I had to run upstairs.

I'm here in the office to do the podcast with Alan Prost, which actually turned out very, very well, so subscribe to the channel so you don't miss anything when we launch that podcast. I think you'll be surprised that it was so great. To talk to him before we end this video, I just want to explain some performance data on the Regera, so 1500 horsepower, of course, it's a hybrid, so you have the electric motor in the rear, there's two-wheel drive wheels, um, we have. 1420 kilograms dry weight, it's definitely a pretty light car and zero to 422.5 seconds, which is an absolutely phenomenal world record at 240 50 km/h, you have 450 kilograms of downforce, that number is the only one that now It's not out of place. graphics because we know mclaren cena has 800 kilograms of downforce but still for a road car it's still absolutely excellent numbers um so that's it with the facts and thank you very much for watching please subscribe if you're new to the channel um, I'd like to. you comment below I would also like you to give me three words to describe the koenigsegg g

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