More Lightning drag racing

[MountainAlive]

It’s just too easy for this beast

https://www.hotcars.com/ford-f-150-lightning-obliterate-muscle-cars-drag-race/

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[Ted23Lightning]

It’s just too easy for this beast

https://www.hotcars.com/ford-f-150-lightning-obliterate-muscle-cars-drag-race/

Very nice
Now just need to up that 110 top speed

 

[theawesomegamer]

Very nice
Now just need to up that 110 top speed

Haha, true! Tops out at 107 for me.

 

[Heliian]

Guaranteed the GTO that beat him was heavily modified and probably cost the owner 100k plus to get it running that fast. The original stock musclecars of the bygone era were fast compared to the painfully underpowered standard cars but still slow to today's benchmarks.

The article alludes to the lack of cornering capability. Time to make a track version!

 

[G-Zeus]

Guaranteed the GTO that beat him was heavily modified and probably cost the owner 100k plus to get it running that fast. The original stock musclecars of the bygone era were fast compared to the painfully underpowered standard cars but still slow to today's benchmarks.

The article alludes to the lack of cornering capability. Time to make a track version!

it also looked
Like the Lightning had a delayed start in that one too. Would have been interesting to see the Lightning vs the Mustang Mach-e!

 

[CerebralPrimate]

Guaranteed the GTO that beat him was heavily modified and probably cost the owner 100k plus to get it running that fast. The original stock musclecars of the bygone era were fast compared to the painfully underpowered standard cars but still slow to today's benchmarks.

The article alludes to the lack of cornering capability. Time to make a track version!

What Hellion said, The Judge was/is a beautiful car and I love them, but in stock form they struggled to get into the high 13s, even with a Ram Air IV. The stock Lighting ER runs mid to low 12's.

You could also tell from the rear tire set up on the Judge in the video that it was far from stock. The only reason to have that much meat out back is because you have the HP cranked up with mods and you're struggling to put the power down with normal tires.

 

[C6Bill]

This is my other car, it has a 455 under the hood, I still wouldn't bother racing my Lightning in it. It would be a serious mismatch.

 

[Vulnox]

Also shows the power of AWD as almost all of the competitors were struggling for traction. Probably not the best prepared surface either.

Not to say the Lightning and MME wouldn't still win most of those runs, but it would have been a lot closer if they all had AWD or the starting line was prepared well.

They had a video recently from Hagerty of a Lucid vs a Demon and on a track a lot like the above video which seems to be a road course they use for drag racing the Lucid beat it by basically the entire track. On a proper drag strip though it still lost quite handily, but was way closer.



None of this would be a surprise to anyone that spent time at drag strips, there are 1000+HP rear wheel drive cars that regularly have to launch there which would just be spinning tires on regular asphalt. It makes an enormous difference.

 

[pirate4x4lance]

Raced my brother in law in his 2024 Raptor R on Saturday. I had 5 people in my truck and a mountain bike in the back. Smoked him pretty good. His comment was "holy $hit that thing gets some serious torque steer!" LOL

 

[Firn]

I want to see 5-60 times, especially with that hellcat. 0-60 is one thing, but rolling start often shows the real performers

 

[Robocop]

I mean the truck’s performance is seriously impressive at 4/5 and it looks like the Judge got a bit of a jump if you ask me.

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