Manthey Racing go-fast bits worked a treat for the Taycan GT.

KING of the Ring status is especially important to Porsche - but when it comes to electric cars, dominance can be fleeting.

Three years ago, the Taycan electric sedan was the fastest EV around the Nurburgring circuit.

The edition that set that benchmark was a Taycan Turbo GT, equipped with the factory’s optional Weissach package.

It managed to circulate the 20.8km Nurburgring Nordschleife track in seven minutes and 7.55 seconds.

Nice. But now nothing special.

Subsequently, that feat was bettered. First by the Rimac Nevera hypercar, which clocked seven minutes and 5.30 seconds. Then came two supercars from China - the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra put in a seven minute and 4.96 seconds epic lap.

What could beat that? Answer: The world’s fastest car, the Yangwang U9 Xtreme. It clocked a six minutes and 59.16s lap.

Now Porsche has reclaimed honour, again with the Taycan GT, but this time with more tweaks.

Weissach regained the production EV title with help from its racing partner Manthey Racing.

Updates created by the firm responsible for the fastest 911s at the the venue in Germany were used to fantastic effect by the Taycan.

It’s just set a time of six minutes and 55.53 seconds.

The Manthey kit consists of retuned vehicle software, lightweight 21-inch forged wheels (shod in Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tyres), and additional aerodynamic parts (rear wing with bigger endplates, larger front splitter, rear diffuser and rear wheel aerodiscs) which increased its downforce levels from 95kg to 310kg at 200kmh.

Manthey also increased the car’s powertrain outputs, resulting in a 20kW power increase to 600kW in its standard driving mode, while peak torque jumped from 1240Nm to 1270Nm using launch control.

An additional 130kW can be unlocked using the Taycan’s Attack Mode, bringing total power up to 730kW.

To cope with the extra speed, the front brakes enlarged from 420mm to 440mm, paired with higher performance brake pads.

While the fastest production EV, the car is still slower than the 911 GT3 also fettled by Manthey, which recently set a time of six minutes and 52.981.

This despite producing almost half as much power and one-third the amount of torque as the Taycan.