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I don't think those guys that refuse to race you realize just how pathetic it makes them look that they can't just have fun and make a run regardless of who's in the other lane.
Well said! The best drag racers (like Claudio in his '68 Big Block Big Tire Camaro) explain this very same thing in the 30 seconds captured here: th-cam.com/video/3C7fs9312Sw/w-d-xo.html
The Tesla is Amazing. It’s clean. It’s quiet. It’s the HIGHEST SCORING CAR CONSUMER REPORTS HAS EVER TESTED does these drag races so reliably over and over and the easiest car to maintain. It’s an iPhone on wheels
I had a Plaid for almost two years now. All these pimped up cars that go vroom vroom mysteriously quiet down when they see me. Biggest whiners I have seen are Porsche drivers.
Well, I'm not sure why they would whine. Porsches look better, they are faster when used for what they are designed for (road courses), and they are way nicer to drive. Anyone driving a Porsche could certainly afford a Plaid if they wanted one. Face it, the only thing the Tesla does well is accelerate fast...If that's you thing great but take the Plaid and Porsche to a road course and you will see just how bad the Tesla really is to drive.
Drag racers feel extreme shame losing to an electric after pouring so much money and blood into their ICE. Doesn't help them that they all talk poorly of electric just to get their ass beat so badly by a stock family sedan.🤭
I’m surprised that so many people here don’t understand why the gas burners don’t want to race the EV’s. Call it “ego” if you want, but much of the fun in racing is the win. Andrew obviously likes winning too. Many of these guys pour their souls (and wallets) into this traditional gas sport not just to race but also to win. They see gas vs EV’s as apples vs oranges. To them, it’s like a scoped rifle entering a bow hunting contest.
👍 Quite possibly, although I try not to give up more than a tenth on the tree. And my worst all night on 76% charge (6.16) was 2 tenths better than his best pass of the night (6.38) But it’s drag racing, and anything can happen 😃
The Plaid is my favorite car of all time. This video shows that all of the ev haters are taking notice. I just watched a Plaid on Carwow beat a Hayabusa with 380 hp and a Koenigsegg!! Go watch it Andrew, you will love it! I freaking love your videos!!!
We’ve looked closely at it. No benefit for Drag Racing. Those 20” wheels and tires will only be slower than the 19”s (We’ve tested even stickier Nittos on lightweight 20” wheels.)
I wish the "no time" cars ran different days or a different time of the day so people who actually want to drag race are not lined up with lane campers.
Best race of the night was you and Roger! Perhaps you 2 should have a rolling best of 5 races each week! It sure seems to come down to 2 things, who gets traction first and DRIVERS SKILL! Rather watch you 2 race than have you pull to the line and the ICE car either refuses or let's you go and follows 10-15 seconds after you trip the lights! BTW, CarWow just released a race with a Plaid against the newest 1250HP Koenigsegg $4 million dollar car and a 380HP motorcycle! Everyone should get a smile out of that! It is truly amazing watching a 4 door 4,000+ pound Plaid waste almost everything out there! Wonder what ever happened to the Lucd Saphire that was double the price of the Plaid but NEVER see one at a regular track day! You would think SOMEONE would get one out there to simply get their video wins monetized! But your track analysis and conversations really make your videos WORK! 😀
Lucid started taking reservations for the $250K Sapphire on August 23, but the announcement only said that the delivery would be "Summer 2023", and I have not seen any announcement saying that the first one had been delivered to a customer. So I don't think that they are out there yet. And secondly how many people who spend $250K for a new car want to take them right away to a drag strip? I'm guessing that we see the first Sapphires on a drag strip sometime in the next few months.
The thing is, when you have video you can pretty accurately measure the time anyway. I really don't understand the mentality. If you ever make a serious race everybody's going to know your capability after that - word gets around quickly - and if you never make a timed run why are you even there? Even if you have one of those in-car devices, they aren't very accurate or reliable. Not enough to be of any use if you're just testing and fine tuning. They're fine for a cheap way to get a ballpark idea, but the way they work with accelerometers and GPS just doesn't have anything like the accuracy of the track's equipment.
When pulling up toward the line, go very slow to light just the first (top) “Pre Stage” bulb. Then creep forward VERY slowly until the second Stage bulb is lit. Just barely “tickle” that light. That’s shallow. The wheels can go another 14 inches forward until fully “deep”. Shallow has more benefits than deep, but the driver must be careful and consistent. Many Tesla guys will rush up to the line in an effort to get Launch Control started, since it takes 9-10 seconds, during which the green light usually comes. But that hurry can prevent the proper shallow staging. Launch Control is good for about a tenth of a second, but poor and inconsistent staging can cost much more than that in Reaction Time, or worse, a red light.
And those are just the recent ones this year. Dozens and dozens posted on this Channel. But it’s most fun when we see a car run an 8.x in the 1/4 mile and then we’re able to holeshot it: th-cam.com/video/8sx9xhD_PPs/w-d-xo.html
Honestly, what in the world is going on with those guys? Your there to run your car and have fun. Its not that serious. Anyway, great runs on your end👍👍
NT cars are usually grudge racers and don’t like to run with time cars. If your time is displayed on the board it would be easy for others to guesstimate their times.
To match up, and possibly beat, a Tesla Plaid in a drag race, a gasoline-powered car would have to be as light as a Tesla, have AWD and traction control, AND have over 1000 hp in it. Quite difficult to obtain.
Full power to about 85% (five runs at 3% per 1/4 mile pass), then loses about a tenth for each 15% drop. We’ve run as low at 40%, and it still did 9.6 👍
Something odd is definitely going on, at the track and online. I like this channel as it showcases so many different cars. But it looks like some haters got together to bring this channel down.
👍Indeed, we’ve had so many folks try to say this is a “Tesla-fans-only” channel. Huh? We point the camera at the other cars, fawn over nice builds, and rarely race other Teslas. This is a gearhead channel 😃
Just write “NT” on the window and the track will hide the times (from both lanes!) from the scoreboard. And then at the time slip booth, they will rip the ticket in half so the other driver doesn’t see your side. No extra cost for this service.
I’m all for electric cars and yes they are big time fast , there so fast that what you guys are trying to do is compare apples to oranges , electric cars and gas cars are 2 completely different animals.
Hilarious how those ego heads in the loud for nothing cars refused to go head to head lol. Remove those chutes man... Sorry to break it ego heads, but you're not fast anymore. Welcome to the era of EVs.
99.9 percent of street driven gas powered cars will not run 6.0s in the eighth mile and 80 percent of gas powered cars coming in on trailers will not run 6.0s in the eighth mile did you think the 57 Chevy running 9s had a chance in hell of beating you
👍 We don’t give a 1.4 second head start when we believe they have a chance of beating the Plaid (So ‘only’ a 7.50 would have been needed for a good race, and even a stock Hellcat or Tesla Model 3 can do much better than 7.50)
Thankfully not at our local dragstrips. This kind of stuff is the rare outlier. We have over 1730 Tesla time slips now, and we know most of the 'regulars' at these tracks. Even *SAM* (from a certain YT channel that has over Billion views) loves the Teslas. We chat about them every time we bump into each other at Bradenton, which is right next to the Freedom Factory. But we rarely include him in our videos, because we aren't 'name droppers' that way. (Do you see the name of his boss here? Never. Not even when we bump into him and ask to race, which has happened more than once.)
Here in these comments? For sure, we don’t ❤️ the ones with the name calling. We’re out there to have fun and respect all competitors. Yet if someone new shows up with a big ego and starts bossing around the regulars in the parking lot, well then, we’re not going to go to any great lengths to hide the rest of their strange behavior. What we presented here is an accurate depiction of the night with context and very little personal commentary. Of course, we also saw how others involved (track workers including timeslip booth, livestream commentator, and others) reacted to the events. But as for us, no name calling or bad juju. That’s not the way we roll…
What gets me is the plaid guy is so Happy about beating up on gas motors?? WHY? Not even comparing apples to apples. Electric motor,,,,,,,,,,,,, gas motor,,,,,,,,,,,,, Not the same thing?? Can’t wait to see someone put something electric and big in a SS and smoke the Plaids!:) you know electric verse electric!
Happy to be at the dragstrip with all the cars we grew up building. Camaros. Mustangs. Why not race other EVs? Boring! Much more fun to BEAT the trailered beasts that are doing wheelies. That’s just what we do here. And we’ve lined up with everyone from rail dragsters to Alcohol big blocks. There’s always someone faster (all true drag racers know that), but most nights we win most races and we drive in and drive out. No trailer here 👍
Maybe they don’t wanna race because they already know you have over 1,500 passes and the car runs within 2/10ths pretty much everytime. Maybe they just want someone that literally doesn’t know how well their car is going to run, until it actually makes a pass. What’s your widest margin? 9.2 to 9.9 with lower charge? But you literally couldn’t get anyone to run. Maybe they’re watching your videos, and listening to you say every car isn’t fast enough. 🤣
@@TeslaPlaidChannel I’m not in those people, though. I live in Sacramento. Just speculation. And you backed it up by how close the 2 plaids ran. They know what you’re going to run, everytime. 95% of the time, you’re not running over a 9.5. I still think it’s poor sportsmanship. Just get up there and run. That’s why I try to watch all of your videos. I’m looking at getting a Plaid, but my 2022 M4 Comp with 15,000 miles, the dealer offered me $70k with an MSRP of $108k. I’m not taking that bath. I’d have to spring for the CCBs on the plaid, I love them on my M4. $8,500 brake option, when you order them with the car, $22,000 at the parts counter if you don’t, but they’re worth $75 at trade in time. Worst investment ever. But I love them.
There is no work in the plad on how to build a car as far engine, trans,rear gears I don't want to put the guy down put come on is there a class for the electric cars or trucks
Same as the Dodge Demon and many of the cars we race. We talk to the other owners, most street legal drivers use a “tuner” shop to do all the work. Surprisingly few have ever turned a wrench. (“I don’t have the tools or the skills” they say, and we don’t show it in our videos because they were nice enough to race us.) That aside, there are different seasons of life. Having built engines in my teens, I know the personal satisfaction. But once we’re older, and backaches from leaning into an engine bay all day is no longer viable, then simple reliability becomes appreciated 👍 One can buy a 10-to-11-second Corvette, Redeye, or GT500 and rarely do Viewers point out that the drivers require “no skill” to own or drive them (Traction Control, Launch Control, auto trans, etc) We’re enjoying our Teslas that have done 1730 dragstrip runs without an issue. And no more backaches! 😃
@@WilsonElias 👍The future looks bright indeed! Looking forward to the things that gearheads will be able to do with electric motors. And why not add some power to the front axle of that ICE-powered beast?
For all the built Hellcats and Lambos, sometimes a primered small block Monza can beat the Plaid- or a C2 Corvette 4 speed that gets air in every gear. There are endless flavors of drag racing. That's what is so fun about it!
Just proving that EVs are more reliable and cheaper to run. 1700 dragstrips runs with no broken parts. Maybe that’s why Don Garlits switched also? He knows more about Drag Racing than anyone, including even you…
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Special Thanks to partners @LueTubeTv and @Drag Racing and Car Stuff for sharing trackside and grandstand footage!
Noooo! You should have hung back just to keep that beauty of a '57 on screen for the whole run! OMG she was so beautiful!
👍Beautiful for sure! With over a full second head start, we got to see all sides of it on our cameras 🎥
@@TeslaPlaidChannel True enough! 😁
I don't think those guys that refuse to race you realize just how pathetic it makes them look that they can't just have fun and make a run regardless of who's in the other lane.
Well said! The best drag racers (like Claudio in his '68 Big Block Big Tire Camaro) explain this very same thing in the 30 seconds captured here: th-cam.com/video/3C7fs9312Sw/w-d-xo.html
You don't lose any race you don't take...
thx for posting these videos. Great runs from the Plaid as always!!!!
Turn out the best runs are between the two Plaids 😂 🎉
@@ba177ba18 👍Yet we actually avoid racing other EVs because we prefer seeing wheelies in the next lane! 😃
That run against the 57 Chevy says it all. 66-year-old technology (we all love and enjoy) vs. state-of-the-art street-legal electric car. Very cool.
Love this. always fun to see people get salty about the Plaid. makes my weekend always, Andrew :)
The Tesla is Amazing. It’s clean. It’s quiet. It’s the HIGHEST SCORING CAR CONSUMER REPORTS HAS EVER TESTED does these drag races so reliably over and over and the easiest car to maintain. It’s an iPhone on wheels
I had a Plaid for almost two years now. All these pimped up cars that go vroom vroom mysteriously quiet down when they see me. Biggest whiners I have seen are Porsche drivers.
Well, I'm not sure why they would whine. Porsches look better, they are faster when used for what they are designed for (road courses), and they are way nicer to drive. Anyone driving a Porsche could certainly afford a Plaid if they wanted one. Face it, the only thing the Tesla does well is accelerate fast...If that's you thing great but take the Plaid and Porsche to a road course and you will see just how bad the Tesla really is to drive.
Seems no one wants to race against the Tesla Plaid. Oh well. Thanks for the video.
Drag racers feel extreme shame losing to an electric after pouring so much money and blood into their ICE. Doesn't help them that they all talk poorly of electric just to get their ass beat so badly by a stock family sedan.🤭
I’m surprised that so many people here don’t understand why the gas burners don’t want to race the EV’s. Call it “ego” if you want, but much of the fun in racing is the win. Andrew obviously likes winning too. Many of these guys pour their souls (and wallets) into this traditional gas sport not just to race but also to win. They see gas vs EV’s as apples vs oranges. To them, it’s like a scoped rifle entering a bow hunting contest.
True but it looks like stage fright. Nobody drives out there to make single passes
What's funny is the "TRY IT" Camaro ran well enough that it could've been down to traction and reaction time.
👍 Quite possibly, although I try not to give up more than a tenth on the tree. And my worst all night on 76% charge (6.16) was 2 tenths better than his best pass of the night (6.38)
But it’s drag racing, and anything can happen 😃
@@TeslaPlaidChannel Oh, I know. It could've been at least competitive.
Give him the move and it would have been close.
I like being able to see the vibrations on the back seat camera. Helps show how fast that thing is lol
Thanks
The Plaid is my favorite car of all time. This video shows that all of the ev haters are taking notice. I just watched a Plaid on Carwow beat a Hayabusa with 380 hp and a Koenigsegg!! Go watch it Andrew, you will love it! I freaking love your videos!!!
Her he’s chicken gesture so great😀
I'm going on a diet to drop some weight, so I can beat Andrew in our next race!😉
Plate : Fast Fox
Andrew said ,not fast enough
Me : lmao
I think you should get the new tesla (track package) with the new top speed and upgraded brakes
We’ve looked closely at it. No benefit for Drag Racing. Those 20” wheels and tires will only be slower than the 19”s (We’ve tested even stickier Nittos on lightweight 20” wheels.)
I wish the "no time" cars ran different days or a different time of the day so people who actually want to drag race are not lined up with lane campers.
Best race of the night was you and Roger! Perhaps you 2 should have a rolling best of 5 races each week! It sure seems to come down to 2 things, who gets traction first and DRIVERS SKILL! Rather watch you 2 race than have you pull to the line and the ICE car either refuses or let's you go and follows 10-15 seconds after you trip the lights! BTW, CarWow just released a race with a Plaid against the newest 1250HP Koenigsegg $4 million dollar car and a 380HP motorcycle! Everyone should get a smile out of that! It is truly amazing watching a 4 door 4,000+ pound Plaid waste almost everything out there! Wonder what ever happened to the Lucd Saphire that was double the price of the Plaid but NEVER see one at a regular track day! You would think SOMEONE would get one out there to simply get their video wins monetized! But your track analysis and conversations really make your videos WORK! 😀
👍Thanks for the ideas Roy! 😃
Lucid started taking reservations for the $250K Sapphire on August 23, but the announcement only said that the delivery would be "Summer 2023", and I have not seen any announcement saying that the first one had been delivered to a customer. So I don't think that they are out there yet. And secondly how many people who spend $250K for a new car want to take them right away to a drag strip? I'm guessing that we see the first Sapphires on a drag strip sometime in the next few months.
The cool part is the Plaid is a 4 door family car. What if Tesla tryed to make a fast production car?
Shout out to Lue!
They should be ashamed being at the track. Put the car on the trailer go home and cry to mommy.
Mustang was a N/T car. If he would have went down next to the Tesla his ET could be guessed at pretty close. Everyone knows what the Tesla runs.
👍 Yep, as pointed out at 6:19
But 11:03 is where the real strangeness occurred…
The thing is, when you have video you can pretty accurately measure the time anyway.
I really don't understand the mentality. If you ever make a serious race everybody's going to know your capability after that - word gets around quickly - and if you never make a timed run why are you even there? Even if you have one of those in-car devices, they aren't very accurate or reliable. Not enough to be of any use if you're just testing and fine tuning. They're fine for a cheap way to get a ballpark idea, but the way they work with accelerometers and GPS just doesn't have anything like the accuracy of the track's equipment.
Can you explain how to not deap stage so we could learn ?
When pulling up toward the line, go very slow to light just the first (top) “Pre Stage” bulb. Then creep forward VERY slowly until the second Stage bulb is lit. Just barely “tickle” that light. That’s shallow. The wheels can go another 14 inches forward until fully “deep”. Shallow has more benefits than deep, but the driver must be careful and consistent.
Many Tesla guys will rush up to the line in an effort to get Launch Control started, since it takes 9-10 seconds, during which the green light usually comes. But that hurry can prevent the proper shallow staging. Launch Control is good for about a tenth of a second, but poor and inconsistent staging can cost much more than that in Reaction Time, or worse, a red light.
@@TeslaPlaidChannel thank u so much coach!
"Gas for gas"😂😂😂What a😿....How bout RUN WHAT YA BRUNG!
100%!!!
What about us? Will we line up with (much) faster cars?
th-cam.com/video/3ld1Zy9ayQs/w-d-xo.html
Or: th-cam.com/video/koqEVezOV_s/w-d-xo.html
Or: th-cam.com/video/eMyn-yZXHYA/w-d-xo.html
Or: th-cam.com/video/xOrj7_RP9aE/w-d-xo.html
And those are just the recent ones this year. Dozens and dozens posted on this Channel.
But it’s most fun when we see a car run an 8.x in the 1/4 mile and then we’re able to holeshot it: th-cam.com/video/8sx9xhD_PPs/w-d-xo.html
Honestly, what in the world is going on with those guys? Your there to run your car and have fun. Its not that serious. Anyway, great runs on your end👍👍
That's so fuelist!
NT cars are usually grudge racers and don’t like to run with time cars. If your time is displayed on the board it would be easy for others to guesstimate their times.
To match up, and possibly beat, a Tesla Plaid in a drag race, a gasoline-powered car would have to be as light as a Tesla, have AWD and traction control, AND have over 1000 hp in it. Quite difficult to obtain.
Maybe if they let you line up in reverse they will try to race you again.
Yessssssss Try It ... try to build a car and try to do 8s in 1/8mile .
the plaid dont lose power before it down to around 50-45% charge?
Full power to about 85% (five runs at 3% per 1/4 mile pass), then loses about a tenth for each 15% drop. We’ve run as low at 40%, and it still did 9.6 👍
ICE cars are running scared Andrew.I will take you on.I have a Chevy Spark with 80 horse power! I will need a 4 second head start.
Que bonitos carros contra los q compiten
Gas car running low 9s extremely expensive aka rare vs nearly stock Plaid
And used Plaids are currently selling in the $80k range…
Its gonna get to the point when ev has its own category.
Something odd is definitely going on, at the track and online. I like this channel as it showcases so many different cars. But it looks like some haters got together to bring this channel down.
👍Indeed, we’ve had so many folks try to say this is a “Tesla-fans-only” channel. Huh? We point the camera at the other cars, fawn over nice builds, and rarely race other Teslas. This is a gearhead channel 😃
Can someone explain how ‘no time’ works. Does the No time vehicle pay $ for that privilege?
Just write “NT” on the window and the track will hide the times (from both lanes!) from the scoreboard. And then at the time slip booth, they will rip the ticket in half so the other driver doesn’t see your side. No extra cost for this service.
Vs the other Plaid, with better traction..i believe you would've gone..09-.10!😮
👍 We went 6.02 and 6.03 earlier in this video, and have run many 5.9s on other nights (like all of the runs in our latest video)
@@TeslaPlaidChannel Ook my bad 👍
Hey man, why don't you go hunt down the Farm Truck and see if you can beat that.
👍Would be fun! We’ll line up with anyone who can stay in their lane, and have already raced much faster cars than Farm Truck (like rail dragsters)
I’m all for electric cars and yes they are big time fast , there so fast that what you guys are trying to do is compare apples to oranges , electric cars and gas cars are 2 completely different animals.
Hilarious how those ego heads in the loud for nothing cars refused to go head to head lol. Remove those chutes man... Sorry to break it ego heads, but you're not fast anymore. Welcome to the era of EVs.
99.9 percent of street driven gas powered cars will not run 6.0s in the eighth mile and 80 percent of gas powered cars coming in on trailers will not run 6.0s in the eighth mile did you think the 57 Chevy running 9s had a chance in hell of beating you
👍 We don’t give a 1.4 second head start when we believe they have a chance of beating the Plaid (So ‘only’ a 7.50 would have been needed for a good race, and even a stock Hellcat or Tesla Model 3 can do much better than 7.50)
Thankfully not at our local dragstrips. This kind of stuff is the rare outlier. We have over 1730 Tesla time slips now, and we know most of the 'regulars' at these tracks. Even *SAM* (from a certain YT channel that has over Billion views) loves the Teslas. We chat about them every time we bump into each other at Bradenton, which is right next to the Freedom Factory. But we rarely include him in our videos, because we aren't 'name droppers' that way. (Do you see the name of his boss here? Never. Not even when we bump into him and ask to race, which has happened more than once.)
I feel like a line has been crossed here. Something has changed, and it gives me a bad vibe.
Here in these comments? For sure, we don’t ❤️ the ones with the name calling. We’re out there to have fun and respect all competitors. Yet if someone new shows up with a big ego and starts bossing around the regulars in the parking lot, well then, we’re not going to go to any great lengths to hide the rest of their strange behavior. What we presented here is an accurate depiction of the night with context and very little personal commentary. Of course, we also saw how others involved (track workers including timeslip booth, livestream commentator, and others) reacted to the events. But as for us, no name calling or bad juju. That’s not the way we roll…
What gets me is the plaid guy is so Happy about beating up on gas motors?? WHY? Not even comparing apples to apples. Electric motor,,,,,,,,,,,,, gas motor,,,,,,,,,,,,, Not the same thing?? Can’t wait to see someone put something electric and big in a SS and smoke the Plaids!:) you know electric verse electric!
Happy to be at the dragstrip with all the cars we grew up building. Camaros. Mustangs. Why not race other EVs? Boring! Much more fun to BEAT the trailered beasts that are doing wheelies. That’s just what we do here. And we’ve lined up with everyone from rail dragsters to Alcohol big blocks. There’s always someone faster (all true drag racers know that), but most nights we win most races and we drive in and drive out. No trailer here 👍
Maybe they don’t wanna race because they already know you have over 1,500 passes and the car runs within 2/10ths pretty much everytime. Maybe they just want someone that literally doesn’t know how well their car is going to run, until it actually makes a pass. What’s your widest margin? 9.2 to 9.9 with lower charge? But you literally couldn’t get anyone to run. Maybe they’re watching your videos, and listening to you say every car isn’t fast enough. 🤣
…maybe…
@@TeslaPlaidChannel I’m not in those people, though. I live in Sacramento. Just speculation. And you backed it up by how close the 2 plaids ran. They know what you’re going to run, everytime. 95% of the time, you’re not running over a 9.5. I still think it’s poor sportsmanship. Just get up there and run. That’s why I try to watch all of your videos. I’m looking at getting a Plaid, but my 2022 M4 Comp with 15,000 miles, the dealer offered me $70k with an MSRP of $108k. I’m not taking that bath. I’d have to spring for the CCBs on the plaid, I love them on my M4. $8,500 brake option, when you order them with the car, $22,000 at the parts counter if you don’t, but they’re worth $75 at trade in time. Worst investment ever. But I love them.
There is no work in the plad on how to build a car as far engine, trans,rear gears I don't want to put the guy down put come on is there a class for the electric cars or trucks
Same as the Dodge Demon and many of the cars we race. We talk to the other owners, most street legal drivers use a “tuner” shop to do all the work. Surprisingly few have ever turned a wrench. (“I don’t have the tools or the skills” they say, and we don’t show it in our videos because they were nice enough to race us.)
That aside, there are different seasons of life. Having built engines in my teens, I know the personal satisfaction. But once we’re older, and backaches from leaning into an engine bay all day is no longer viable, then simple reliability becomes appreciated 👍
One can buy a 10-to-11-second Corvette, Redeye, or GT500 and rarely do Viewers point out that the drivers require “no skill” to own or drive them (Traction Control, Launch Control, auto trans, etc)
We’re enjoying our Teslas that have done 1730 dragstrip runs without an issue. And no more backaches! 😃
Once people become familiar with electric vehicles and how to build them The custom setups build will be wild. We are just in the beginning my friend.
@@WilsonElias 👍The future looks bright indeed! Looking forward to the things that gearheads will be able to do with electric motors. And why not add some power to the front axle of that ICE-powered beast?
For all the built Hellcats and Lambos, sometimes a primered small block Monza can beat the Plaid- or a C2 Corvette 4 speed that gets air in every gear. There are endless flavors of drag racing. That's what is so fun about it!
@James England you got that right I am old school guy tire smoking gear jamming on race gas and a shot of juice hemi, big block , small block for ever
The EVs are not proving anything when racing a gas motor nothing at all. Sorry I don’t see the hype of EV racing a gas motor? Two different animals!!!
Just proving that EVs are more reliable and cheaper to run. 1700 dragstrips runs with no broken parts. Maybe that’s why Don Garlits switched also? He knows more about Drag Racing than anyone, including even you…