Once the 797-hp Hellcat Redeye hooks up, surely it shows its taillights to the field, right? World’s Greatest Drag Race 9! This explains how we ended up with our 12 Best Driver's Cars lined up and revving on the clean, grooved concrete of America's fourth-longest runway.How do we improve upon that combination? Will any of the cars capable of 200 mph even come close at the checkered flag? Which one runs out of breath? Or is it the DBS Superleggera and its twin-turbo V-12 that most effectively uses its 700-plus horsepower? You've already seen the pictures and know we had a special guest. Last year was the latter; by the end of the quarter mile, the

As part of MOTOR TREND’s annual Best Driver’s Car competition powered by Mothers, we line up the contenders on an airstrip and bask in the glory of horsepower, wheelspin, and launch control. The question is not whether we'll do a race this year; it's what we'll do differently this time.

Our quarter-mile times provide a hint of the finish, but if you want to really experience WGDR 8, you've got to watch the full video.Some years, World's Greatest Drag Race is a blowout. Meet The 1320 will need every last advantage, as it's lined up against some of the top supercars on the planet—each equipped with barely street-legal tires, launch control, and even more horsepower. The Now that the drag race is a given around here, we're too busy looking forward to look back. So many questions.I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Others, it's a nail-biter. Some would argue a new crop of cars is enough, but we know we can do more to boost the excitement factor.Easter eggs in past drag races have varied. World’s Greatest Drag Race is back with the year’s best 12 contenders from Motor Trend’s 2018 Best Driver’s Car competition. Will the track specialist Senna be held back by all of its downforce-inducing fins and wings? Once again, the Miata was excused in favor of something with a bit more horsepower—the old-fashioned, gas-guzzling kind.

Watch 12 of the Fastest Production Cars Compete Supra, Shelby, Senna, and More: Our 12 competitors race to a quarter mile—and beyond Sure, we had our guesses, but only in the race could we confirm for sure.Which production car gets faster after the quarter? Is this the world’s greatest drag race?

By taking the entire 12-car field to the half-mile and adding a German comedian, a Polish car collector, and the world's luckiest Australian dentist to the mix.
"We love it, you love it, and apparently so do the fine airmen of the 30th Space Wing, headquartered at Vandenberg Air Force Base; this is the third year in a row they've agreed to host our madness.

We've just completed the 2014 Best Driver's Car competition, powered by Mobil 1, and along with that highly anticipated event, we've also completed the World's Greatest Drag Race … Tesla CEO Elon Musk is undoubtedly proud to share the results of Motor Trend’s seventh annual “World’s Greatest Drag Race”, namely because a Model S … 12 supercars face off in quarter-mile showdown With a lineup worth £1.2million and boasting almost 6,500bhp, the short race … Eight years isn't a long time, but it's long enough to forget. With 12 of the world's fastest cars lined up and ready to launch when World's Greatest Drag Race 8 premieres on Friday, September 21, Velocity decided to dive deep into the background of … "Because we can" is the reason we gave for doing World's Greatest Drag Race the first time, eight years ago. In the second race, the If you need a refresher or just a good binge-watching Saturday afternoon, you can find all seven previous drag races on This year, we were once again the guests of our outstanding hosts at Vandenberg Air Force Base, home of the cleanest, most race-ready airfield in the world (no hats on the flight line, please). Yes, we put the aforementioned colleagues from the German and Polish affiliates of The real question is what happens when you take 12 cars and double the 1,320? If Best Driver's Car is the most exciting thing we do all year, then World's Greatest Drag Race puts seven exclamation points at the end of that statement. Now it's more like, "Because we'd be crazy not to.
Others, it's a nail-biter. We don't regularly test acceleration to the half mile, so we didn't know who would win when we first pulled onto the tarmac at Vandenberg. Some years, World's Greatest Drag Race is a blowout.

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