~ much more torque than can practically be delivered between the tires and the ground, which is why using a vacuum to improve the traction and eliminate the transient squatting motion of the vehicle is so important in a short race.

Drag racers have had this problem for a long time; those races last less than 5 seconds. This hill climb is interesting because it's only a bit longer, half a minute, which really changes the equations for electric race cars vs. something like Pikes Peak which is 8 minutes to the top (and is now also totally dominated by electric cars).

Probably thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)

If acceleration were an instantaneous off-on step, that would be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function

This is a weird car guy myth that gets tossed around. The thinking is that, electric motors make uniform power output at any RPM, and torque = some_constant * power_output / RPM. Thus, as RPM goes to zero, torque goes to infinity.

Obviously, this is wrong in the real world for so many reasons, but that doesn't stop this from getting repeated.

Repeating it is a great way to paint yourself as one of those dolts that likes to act like they care about EVs for the virtue points.

Everyone who's ever used a drill knows that while speed and torque are inversely related in most of a motors normal operating range you don't get insane torque at low speed. Of course you can wind a motor differently to mitigate this somewhat but still, not a huge improvement. You wouldn't see reduction gears on all sorts of things if this were the case.