FIRST DRIVE: Pushing the NEW IONIQ 6 N to the Limit!

But also we can have some fun So I have some nice sunset from Sydney Motorsport Park Surrounded by Hyundai's i30N, believe it or not European audience This is i30N sedan. Some might call it Elantra, but in Australia, it's i30N Yep, it is. But the main topic of today's video is of course the IONIQ 6 So good morning everyone or good afternoon. Depends which part of the world you're watching Welcome back to Australia. Back in 2024 I participated with World Time Attack together with Hyundai and IONIQ 5N with custom Vulcan Alpha Aero And now we're back with IONIQ 6N. Not for the World Time Attack, although not yet because it's still a couple of months away And it's my very first opportunity to drive this car I've been very excited to give it a go and while I'm here on the stopover in Australia I reached out to my friends at Hyundai and I was like, do you have the 6N? Can I please? And here we are and also together with the old crew one and only Josh Bakken Macau winner, Daytona winner, Sebring winner Daytona loser We were a lap and a half from a win Yeah, but All the history of TCR, Australia winner. Yeah. Well, when did we last meet 24? So yeah, we won a title after that. Yeah One in Korea with Hyundai in TCR World Tour and Macau. Yeah. Yeah, man. I had a good, I flew to heap Yeah, amazing. Yeah. Yeah, it's good to see you. So now we're back with this, with IONIQ 6N You gave me some pointers beforehand with the guys from Focus and a very advanced driver simulation Yeah, at the place I trained. So we drove a Formula Regional open wheeler So very similar to IONIQ 6N, many parallels. We wanted to do sauna training But how many hours sleep have you had? Two. Okay, you need a minimum two and a half to do heat chamber Okay. Yeah. So next time, maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow heat chamber. Yeah But luckily it's not necessary because IONIQ 6N comes with a very nice air conditioning So we don't really need seats as well, aircon seats. Yeah, cooled seats I actually have only driven this at like 50 k's an hour At N Festival. So you've flogged this more than me. How is it? It's all good? It's amazing I mean, I already driven as you can tell by my hair by now, but what hasn't happened yet Maybe you should drive it for the next session and see how it goes. The track is drying up nicely So you can give it the proper scent. Yeah Yeah, but yeah, quickly people who do not know this car 650 horsepower in overboost Very sophisticated drivetrain. For me, the 5N is probably the best EV in its class and Probably the 6N is going to top that. We are today running on street-able tires. I think it's PZero Therefore the grip in the wet was actually good. So no semi slicks. Big big big big big brakes We have 275 on the front in 20. What we had to run in World Tabatek was... 185? You're still scarred. I am. Message group, it's like bigger tires, please. Yes, please We have some aero So maybe we should try to repeat and maybe even make it bigger for the World Tabatek car No, it's not It's not it's not We can we can all right, so if that's not the proper soundtrack That's the precursor for what's about to happen. We got one shot at this. Yeah, one shot, one opportunity Yeah, mom's spaghetti. Don't do mom's spaghetti in the interior. We haven't eaten. Yeah, we need some Alright Let's go. Thanks. First you guys watch my laps followed by Josh's. Hans is on, the car is in truck moods There's a lot of sunset sun happening Oh, yeah, all right, so now welcome to Sydney Motorsport Park, it's good to be back after a year and slightly more because I drove the World Time Attack in In 2024 so not in 2025 and I was 2026 already so it's been a while Oh, look at this Yaris go ahead of us going a bit sideways. I have to be gentle with overtakings. So Gentle gentle gentle Let's go past here Yeah, it has rained it's not raining anymore, but the track is still wet Therefore we need to be careful But also we can have some fun Yes That's maybe a bit too much fun we'll find out oh no, there's a yellow flag Oops not for us. Okay, last corner very important for lap times. Off we go Draggy recording Turn one in the wet Overtaking the cop maybe maybe oh, let's not do it because it's a track day Let's not do silly things, but the grip is quite Insane if I might say so because in damp We're doing like what maybe 140 come on Off we go I'm really impressed by the grip levels and how easy it is to control The chassis tuning of this car is really good. I believe this is actually almost a dry line. Yeah gentle gentle This would get me very Confident Let's not get overconfident But then again, we're here to have fun I apologize for my ND filters flying around and making noise because it was very last moment to man Maybe we're gonna go in the pits and fix that some nice slip through there That is really really good This thing is really annoying It's annoying the crap out of me All right. So let's try it over again It's drying up Bit of slip off we go We have now full boost We're in the boost mode, good for the straight Let's see Can we do a sub 2? It would be possible without having to look for filters. T1 now in the wet conditions, damp conditions is really tricky Brake a bit earlier usually at 100, but now it's still wet so Come on, predict your lap time We already shaved two seconds because we don't have a Porsche here. Come on a bit of more rotation by going on the gas Easy through here easy easy easy and full on the gas once we're at the end of the curb at the 50 on the brakes I'm just instructing myself because it's been a while since I drove it Yeah, we've been also instructed to take it very easy with other traffic. Oh, is that a Holden? Is that a Holden? HSV. Oh, man Fantastic car. Well, we're still two seconds ahead. So maybe we can go a sub 2. It would be lovely. M2 ahead of us Bit of rotation, come on back end stepping out. Whoa, that was good M2 is moving over Fantastic beautiful driving etiquette. You need to watch out Okay All right on the brakes this corner. I really hate I remember for my days of world time attack It's really hard to turn in we're missing some front aero as well Fast cars ahead of us Did you did you did you do evo s 2000 evo? It's not a set of course. It's a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo Lucian All right, all right, so we've put the boost on And off we go Oh, yeah, I really I would love to take T1 when it's dry, but it is not obviously Oh, yeah, baby, I cannot wait to unleash some aero onto this track. Come on messed it up a bit Messed it up. Wait, wait, wait patient patient patient rotation and go flat. Come on chop chop This drives so much better because when we're driving the world time attack car the regulations Told us we could not We could not Messed up a bit there We had to run smaller size wheels and tires because the regulations were written many many years ago for very small and light cars So we had to drive wheels smaller than factory with much more aero, of course different suspension settings So it didn't really work out. So it was actually yeah a challenge and Performing worse than the stock car might have been but now this car is optimum optimal wheel sizes And I hope we get to redo the world time attack once again, but with the new regulations, come on turn chop I messed it up. I should have Okay, we can see the dry line appearing so it's not maybe I'm not going to be as exciting anymore soon but the fun through turn one Something else come on, come on turn and turn turn turn turn turn All right, come come come We're still quite some seconds off and go maybe stop Sub 150. That's good. Don't look at the timer. Look ahead of you Misha. How are you doing? You silly you silly That's why you should not look at the lap timer because You're gonna end up doing stupid things. Come on. Rotate rotate rotate rotate patience. Patience. Patience Messed it up a bit. Oh, there's a rainbow. I don't know if you can see it And we're still faster. I mean with that massive entry through T1 That's some Instagram views right there Come on On the gas use all of the concrete Remember from the world time attack days on the brakes Lots of wet surface through here. So I need to be very cautious and patient We're still faster so Should have gone on the brakes understeer understeer understeer Let's try not to mess one this one up can we like for once like hawk the apex of this that would be lovely Come on It's here a bit later, yeah So that's the thing constantly when I look at the lap timer, I mess things up. So let's do a lap now Without looking at the lap timer shall we but we still almost a second off Okay, do not look at the lap timer looking ahead of us and focus Nah Much better on the exit actually, come on chop chop chop rotate I Got distracted by the checkered flag, unfortunately. Yeah, so we need to go in so All right Yeah, we're gonna cool down the car because we have to get in the paddock anyway Impressions freaking insane car like those are not the easiest conditions Because we are of course on in the wet First time Have to still remember the track I've done some simulator training before with the guys of focus together with Josh Buchan So massive shout out to them to get me up to speed again with Cine Motorsport Park Fantastic track, it's so good to be back like so nice Again, I'd love to run here like proper competition and also like maybe this in a world time attack trim I can give it away already tomorrow. We're gonna run the 2024 world time attack car on proper wheels and tires so I'm really excited for that. It should be dry full aero Vulcan Alpha It's going to be amazing, but this also I'm impressed. I'm impressed. I Apologize, maybe if I was not so much of a youtuber like screwing. Oh my god. It's the best thing ever What did they do how did they build that? I'm just genuinely Having fun then like try of pushing the car more and more to the limit t1 of Cine Motorsport Park is Really something else something insane Right on Hope you guys enjoyed but let's see if we can do some more dry laps Thank You draggy for Showing me what I'm doing. And if what I'm doing is correct 149 in the wet Really not unhappy. I think we were doing I Don't remember actually in the dry. I think we were Trying for some 140s maybe with a time attack car need to look up so much pressure That was Pete the mechanic. I can do whatever I want. Oh clean the windscreen Misha obviously doesn't mind if you cannot see Maybe you drive faster when you can't see it's less scary. What's the sound like? God people are looking at me after doing that for those of you who don't know me. My name is Josh I drive cars for Hyundai. My shirt has my name on it. And that's that's kind of good I didn't make it. I actually yeah, I don't even put my name on my helmet I for whatever reason I've just never liked my name on things. I feel like it's like, oh look, you know It's a bit weird. Anyway, sorry for those of you with painted helmets or merch with your names on them I didn't choose this. This is my American friends Brian. Oh the autosport big shout out I've been on the channel before a couple of times Some of you liked me, which is good. Thank you. Some of you didn't screw you. No, I'm joking You're allowed to hate you're allowed to like it's all good. What was I called in the comments couple of guys? Some dude started with H didn't it? I can't remember. Anyway, I looked it up. It looked pretty similar Cool I got gear mode on If you've never driven I think 5n Or 6n when this car comes out Don't diss the gears until you try them like anything don't diss it till you try it The gears are awesome Still a touch wet Oh, wow, there's a full like Full wet line Okay I haven't yeah, I haven't been out today or this year for that matter so We're learning together There's a big bump there now I avoid it sometimes in a GT car I'll avoid it in something like this or a touring car No real big deal Grip actually feels really good. Wow There's an m2 comp I Probably wouldn't imagine I would catch that I've done I've done like a 41 in a standard m2 comp, which is pretty fast. I Think 44 was the best I did in a 5n So we're probably not going to catch him this is the advanced group so most guys have an idea All right, here we go, I can't even see the speedo. Oh, yeah, I can 200 Where should I break my first time here this year? I'll break there Down into whatever gear that is. I Won't hit the exit curb Break just there roll onto it bit of engine brake ironically second apex is just there I'll turn TC off in a minute trail the brake Wow There's an apex there somewhere professional driver I'll grab this bump. Yeah, it didn't didn't worry it at all Little bit of TC intervention is is hurting it just off the corner there. Wow that We definitely have taken a bit of ground out of the m2 I'll take that second apex What an absolute amateur Stc Is it off yet that chuck it over here Wow So I Guess impressions relative to a 5n very different car a lot of similar characteristics Like so there you go 44 Lights just went on that's the 6n. It's it's a refined 5n like it's it's a very different car I can't see a thing. I'm good Yeah, very different car. It's refined It's easier to drive Does a lot of things different does a lot similar, but yeah, that's Man for an EV. It's as good as it gets Like take the take the badge off. That's as good as it gets. Yo, all right head content creator. Yeah How do you go commander-in-chief of lap time? Yeah. Well, that's the first time I've driven it fast So what did you do in best 44 8? Oh, so that's good. I was doing I think 40 40 dead 49. No 49 in the wet. Yeah, maybe something like that still wet like It's just the dry line opens up. So it'll be dry now But it's so different to the 5. Huh? Yeah, like you can tell it's like same family Yes, but it's like it's way more compliant over bumps. It's not as snappy. Mm-hmm It's a bit. It's a much more stable platform. Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. It had more grip than I thought. Yeah No, it's really good. It's really really good. I'm very happy rather than you talk to me like you've arrested me. Yeah Alright, well, I'm looking forward to watching your footage back while editing. I hope you guys enjoyed his lap So, let's see how it was and who knows what's gonna happen next Like I said, I would love knowing what we have made with the ionic pipe And I would love to see if we could maybe make something similar and I please Can we Now we have enough time because last time we built the car in what two months. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. We have what? Six months now triple the time. So triple more months three times as many Horsepowers and lots of tire size. Yes Imagine well stay tuned subscribe like share once again Thank you Hyundai for all of this amazing is and by the way while we're here Look at that electric vehicle rapid charging station right at the track and guess what? There is actually one also coming at the Nürburgring so you can do the 20 20 20 concept means you drive for 20 minutes You charge for 20 minutes and you do two consecutive 10 minutes laps Something I know but that was the idea. Anyway, that's what we're doing. Also here. We drive a full 15 minute session We discharge 20% we charge it back up again and we keep on going Fantastic. All right, that's all there is to it. So see you next time. Bye You Too bad, oh Look what has arrived. It's my baby So so cool so cool