No but a rotary engine beat a reciprocating engine at LeMans. And it hada wing/spoiler/airfoil on the back.
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You have never watched Promods racing (or much drag/street racing), 5 seconds at 250 MPH running over 4,000 HP… There are plenty of 2,000 plus HP street cars out there also… And don’t forget about the Top Fuel Dragster/Funny car with over 10,000 HP from only 500ci… They are even putting Honda civics with a K24 engine swap in the 7 & 6 second range, FROM A FREAKING 4 cylinder!!!
The world record holding EV dragster only ran a 7.520 @ 201.07 at Tucson Dragway on May 14, 2020… (I couldn’t find any better times if out there)… His website claims it makes 1950 horsepower and 1000 lb-ft of torque thanks to a brushless A/C motor and an 800-volt system…
I have mad respect for what they are doing speed wise with EV’s, but right now ICE still rules the 1/8 & 1/4 mile drags… PERIOD!!!
10 Electric Cars With The Fastest Quarter-Mile Times
- 1 Pininfarina Battista – 8.55 seconds.
- 2 Rimac Nevera – 8.58 seconds. …
- 3 Tesla Roadster – 8.8 seconds. …
- 4 Lucid Air Sapphire – 9.1 seconds. …
- 5 Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance – 9.245 seconds. …
- 6 Tesla Model S Plaid – 9.34 seconds. …
- 7 Tesla Model X Plaid – 9.75 seconds. …
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Thank you.
How is that possible?
Engine meltsdown to thend?
(I was referring to normal vehicle ICEs compared to electric motor wheels.)
The Ford was their Raptor edition F150, a gas powered truck
From the article, which was made in 2011:
The Race
On March 13, 2010, in Gainesville, Fla., Kalitta driver David Grubnic set a top speed record on the 1000-foot track. Here’s a breakdown.
0.50 Sec
10.27 ft — 73.89 mph
The motor screams at its 8300 rpm redline, and the tires buckle under the load of getting the 2300-pound dragster moving.
1.00 Sec
51.94 ft — 113.82 mph
To reduce power and the acceleration of the driveshaft and tires, the ignition advance is retarded from 56 degrees to 27—a strategy to keep the tires gripping the track surface instead of spinning.
1.50 Sec
125.09 — 162.45 mph
The ignition timing is advanced back to the maximum value. The clutch’s throw-out bearing has moved through three of its five stages, increasing the pressure on the discs.
2.00 Sec
231.91 ft — 213.09 mph
The fuel flow ramps to 95 gallons per minute. Aerodynamics increase tire traction so the throw-out bearing tightens its grip. The engine slightly bogs to 7200 rpm.
2.50 Sec
379.86 ft — 248.50 mph
In the time required to take a sip of coffee, Grubnic’s car reaches 248 mph. Some of the clutch plates begin welding together, pulling the engine to its lowest rpm, 6500.
3.00 Sec
566.16 ft — 271.62 mph
Thanks to 5000 pounds of aero downforce, the tires have incredible traction, but wind resistance slows acceleration from the maximum 5 g’s to about 4.
3.50 Sec
783.62 ft — 293.41 mph
Late in the run, many spark plugs have burned away, so the engine is dieseling, and some cylinders simply don’t fire. “This is the engine’s toughest zone,” Oberhofer says.
3.83 Sec
1000 ft — 321.58 mph
The mechanical abuse finally ends as the dragster clears nearly 500 feet per second. Next, the driver pulls the chute and the crew then feverishly prepares for the next run.
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Wife, Registered Tree-hugger 2nd Class, wants an EV.
But we need the range if called on a 935-mile blood transport as happened one afternoon.
You don’t have a 935 mile range without refueling on anything.
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We refueled after the first hospital’s delivery.
Itook only minutes, not hours to recharge a battery.
(But the battery could recharge during one of my OCD 10-hour oil changes!)
Well, I disagree, not because of the numbers, but because of apples and oranges. 1/4 mile dragsters are an entirely different beast. Cost wise, practicality wise, and so on. But for not much more than a well-equipped Silverado, you can buy a Tesla X, be sub-10s in the 1/4, and drive that same car to work tomorrow, pick up your kids from soccer, and grab some groceries on the way home.
Though it would be kind of cool to go to a school soccer game in a fuelie.
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You can buy a Dodge Demon 170 and be faster in the 1/4 and 0-60.
- On E-85.
You can also in a slightly modified Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat and have well over 1000 HP and still drive it everyday…
There are plenty of 9 second (and faster, full interior and glass) vehicles out there street racing that can go through the drive through window to get food on the way home from a race… lol
1200-1500+ HP is the new 600 HP for a fast street vehicle… Got to love technology…
As far as apples to oranges, that is why I posted the EV Dragster with 800 volts… Add more volts, EV go faster… But as fast as it is, it is nowhere close to a fast ICE engine…
I must have missed this reference to the near 1,000-mile transport of blood for an emergency blood transfusion… Why would anything like this take place, this is not 1925 Alaska and there is no outbreak of diphtheria threatened to wipeout the town of Nome, Alaska, sparking fears that an epidemic would spread and kill thousands if antitoxin medicine was not supplied.
Serum Run of 1925 | Alaska State Archives.
This is one-hundred years later and transporting this blood a thousand miles by plane, private or commercial, is many, many more times safer and more secure… Especially when someone pushes their vehicle so fast for so long through hill and dale, town and country…
This was hailed as the “Serum Run of 1925”, Perhaps, Mr Gift should have started his own topic titled. The Gift of Blood by the Gift…" Will there be a Netflix special?
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No hills andales or towns.
130 mph attained in areas of open plains, dry, straight Interstate until catching up to traffic.
Also, I do not wantover stress themergencyehicle.
(Kansas Farmer said they do 115 in their King Ranch Expedition on the same Interstate.)
The 935-mile transport wastat, thenon stato thext (then non stat to the next) hospital.
Longest emergentransport was 368 when air travel was not possible.
State Patrol did a 234-mile emergentransport after we delivered blood platelets to the same hospital.
For that one, a Cessna 172 would have totaled 46 minutes air time.
(No Netflix but many want Youboob videos.)
Would be wonderful if we could use drones.
So: brakes, tires, suspension, steering mechanism, alignment, none of which can be “seen” on the road? Maryland has it wrong!
There should be a FEDERAL vehicle inspection law, annually, for all these items and more, pay the garages the going rate (not $12.50…really!) and do not exempt any vehicle allowed on public roads (esp. 25 yrs+ “Vintage,” vehicles here in Maine who do not need any inspection, ever but should be limited to travel “display” only)
Of course, I know those who use Vintages as daily drivers, have not been inspected in years, driving on 15 yr. old tires and such…
My 1976 muscle car is in way better shape than a lot of 10yo+ vehicles on the road today that I have seen… I let a buddy drive it (he is a mechanic also) and he could not believe how tight the steering felt, the car is in very good condition, but I have to keep it that way cause it gets beat on hard when driven… lol
And yes, I daily drove it a lot during (2019-2021) Covid to work (retired now) and out having a little fun…
Now since the HV (never had AC) has been reduced to just V (no heat now) it is driven much less…
This is it:
When I saw the pics of the prototype several months ago, I thought…
No, it can’t possibly turn-out looking like that.
Unfortunately, I was wrong!
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Renegade
I have not seen the Cybertruck it must be bad to give the aztek a run for
I rest my case. Renegade
Cyber truck
If the truck in the name is supposed to be a truck it makes me wonder what kind of mind altering drugs they were on.
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The payload and towing capabilities are comparable to the other EV pickups on the market, and even with the ICE F150. An F150 configured for cargo with a V8 can do more, but the Cybertruck is definitely a pickup truck by a measure, even if it is butt-ugly.
Maybe it can be classed a truck by weight capacity but defenetly not by bulk.
Have to agree 100% on that.
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It might meet the definition of a pickup truck
But it’s by FAR the ugliest one I’ve personally seen 
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