Watch A Range Rover Sport Belt Up A Mountain Pass Faster Than A Ferrari

The Range Rover Sport SVR is now the "unofficial" record holder of the fastest Tianmen Road ascent

13 Mar 2018

It seems Land Rover wanted to kill two birds with one stone during its latest PR stunt. A few weeks ago the company sent a hybrid Range Rover Sport P400E up all 999 steps of China’s Tianmen Mountain, but that wasn’t the only ‘activity’ on the agenda.

Employing the talents of Le Mans winner and Jaguar Formula E reserve driver Ho-Pin Tung once more, Land Rover had its sights set on clocking the “unofficial” fastest time up the Tianmen Road and its 99 turns. The vehicle used for the record was a Range Rover Sport SVR, which Tung belted up mountain pass in 9 minutes 51 seconds, beating the previous best time of 10 minutes 31 seconds.

Not bad given that the former ‘record’ was held by a Ferrari 458, but is it just us, or does that particular drive - done in 2016 - look a little, well…less committed?

Watch A Range Rover Sport Belt Up A Mountain Pass Faster Than A Ferrari

But still, that doesn’t make Tung’s mountain drive any less impressive. Make sure you watch the footage at the top of the page all the way through - it’s proper buttock-clenching stuff.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Tianmen is the new Nordschleife

Too bad not everyone can drive it lol, only tour buses owned by the national park can drive up and down due to the high population of China, cuz if everyone was allowed to drive their own car there’ll be a massive traffic jam

Insert overused joke here

A record you say?

Next up, do it with the F-Type SVR

When you want to do touge racing, but your wife wants a family appropriate car

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Whoever the PR Director at JLR is need a promotion. First make ing an E-Pace do a barrel roll, then making the Range Rover Sport Hybrid climb a steep, 1000 step staircase, and then having the Range Rover Sport SVR make a record run on a mountain pass. Seriously, he NEEDS a promotion.