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Any 6 or 7 second Challengers or Chargers for $85k?

or streetable with a warranty ...

The performance for the price is unmatched.

 

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These kinda "records" are just stupid.

Why?

A guy bought a car, modded it, and made it faster which happened to set a "record". Sounds alot like what people with Hellcats, Corvettes, Mustangs, etc. all do.

What makes the Demon record any better than this stupid one?

 

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Proper motorsport requires human involvement. It adds a competitive nature to the game and a degree of variability. Certain skills produce better results. With EVs, it doesn't matter who the driver is or what the driver's skills are. They are a complete non-factor in terms of drag racing.

Says who?

If you are involving the driver, you are taking away from the way the car was engineered and shifting the focus to a driver. A grandma can make a Plaid S run top 9's. OK? There may not be competition or skills involved, but if you are going to add the human factor, you also have to add the money factor. In which case, all else equal the most $$$$$ will win the race 90% of the time.

Which again is why I say.... a Model S Plaid is unrivaled in performance for $$$$$.

 

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I'm all for letting 10 year olds with no CART experience replace F1 drivers.

F1 drivers don't drive in a straight line for 9 seconds.

And .. I'll still wait for a refute to a 9.6 1/4 for $85k vs a $200k(ADM thing again) for a Demon 170.

In addition, outside of a prepped drag strip with an above average driver, the Plaid will still win, electronics, AWD, whatever you think is cheating,cheap, or soulless.

So, in conclusion, I'll take my granny at a stoplight in a Plaid ($85K) vs your pro driver in a Demon 170 ($200k) every day of the week. I don't care for electric cars particularly, but when performance per dollar and ease of use mattters, there simply is no valid argument against them.

 

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And a Tesla can't finish 1/3 of an F1 race.

And you're arguing with the wrong person. I've built $60k Mustangs that were capable of running low into the 8s. $48k cars with $18 worth of mods. I've also never said EVs were cheating nor cheap. I just said drag racing them isn't motorsport because it's a spectator activity from behind the steering wheel. It's not exciting for anybody involved. Takes no skill. So, if an activity takes no skill, what's the point of competing? I mean, any nerd with a calculator and a spreadsheet can figure out how to make an EV go faster by removing weight.

If you were to have a Tesla only drag class, they'd all end up running within a hundredth of one another. How boring would that be? Sure, you'd still have winners and losers, but every single post race interview with the driver would end up like, "Yeah, the Stewart Racing Exxon Tesla ran great Bill. Sad we couldn't take the win, but we didn't get enough cooldown time between the last round and we couldn't get the temps down, so it pulled a bit off the top end there. We'll get it next time."

I don't care what you've built, or what you did, or that you are talking to your computer and letting it type for you.

An F1 car won't beat a Tesla in a 1/4 mile on the street. Explain to me your point again please when a Tesla is a commuter car and a F1 is specific built race car.

Generally speaking, $$$$ = the quickest, fastest, best, outside of a very few anomalies. No matter if you are racing cars, boats, building computers, or buying a wife overseas.

 

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Let's all remember, torque doesn't end until it ends and then when it ends there's nothing more for it to give....It's all about instant gratification......what'd they call that....oh yeah....Short Attention Span theater

So compared to road racing, drag racing is like the cookie monster? LOL