This Drag Racer Completes the Quarter-Mile In A Flaming Four Seconds

This drag racer takes internal combustion to its epic maximum, creating sonic shock waves, a hellish exhaust note and big, big flames

Michael Fernie

19 Aug 2016

For normal road cars you’d call a 10-second quarter-mile a decent benchmark/target/dream, depending on what stage your project car is at. But in the world of drag racers IC engines are as extreme as it’s possible to get, with this specific car/missile managing a 4-second quarter-mile at 197mph; acceleration that’s hard to even imagine. How the hell the driver keeps it in a straight line is anyone’s guess.

With some dragsters managing outputs well into thousands of horsepower, it’s not surprising that these finely-tuned engines produce a noise akin to a nuclear explosion. RIP headphone users.

Comments

Gotta go fast
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At least it isn’t one of those 6 minute videos with a race at the very end somewhere

Thankfully 1320video doesn’t pull that crap.

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Meanwhile here I struggle to go under 7 seconds in pixel car racer..

Me too bro….maxed VR38 perfect gear setup and nope

Would be easy in automatic mode tho

So far managed to pull off 7.91 in a twin turbo Charger in sequential shifting mode with 5.00 rear end and with 150 shot of NOS. Felt like an accomplishment until I’ve read your comment :D