The Experience: A Day at the Drag Strip

As I stood at the starting line, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. The cars were revving their engines, ready to take on the challenge of the drag strip. I had a feeling that this day was going to be absolutely brutal, with both competitors looking quick and determined. The car in front of me turned off just as my arms were going up, so I did what any self-respecting driver would do - I let out a loud horn to signal that the car ahead of me had left.

The first few rounds were intense, with both cars putting down impressive times. But as we progressed through the competition, things started to get more unpredictable. The Porsche's gearbox seemed to be playing tricks on it, refusing to shift into fourth gear at the critical moment when I needed it most. I took control of the car myself, switching to manual mode and hoping that my driving skills would be enough to overcome the mechanical issues.

As we made our way through the competition, things only got more exciting. The BMW's drive train seemed to be on the fritz, with the car stalling repeatedly as I tried to get it into gear. But despite these setbacks, both cars were able to put down impressive times, with the Porsche edging out the BMW in a thrilling finale.

The competition was fierce, with all three cars putting down incredible performances. The BMW's quarter-mile time of 9.9 seconds was the fastest of the day, with the Porsche and standard Porsche coming close behind with times of 10.1 seconds and 10.2 seconds respectively. As I watched, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the raw power and speed of these incredible machines.

As we made our way onto the track for the rolling race, things only got more intense. The Porsche's gearbox was still malfunctioning, with the car stalling repeatedly as it shifted into higher gears. But despite this, I managed to coax the car into a impressive performance, putting down a time of just over 9 seconds.

But the real challenge came when we hit the braking test. With full emergency stops required from 70 miles an hour, the cars were pushed to their limits. The BMW performed admirably, coming in first with a flawless stop. I was close behind, but ultimately fell short by a hair's breadth.

Despite the setbacks and mechanical issues, both cars had put on an incredible show. As I reflected on the day's events, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and respect for the drivers and machines involved. It had been a truly unforgettable experience, one that I will always treasure as a car enthusiast.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat will win in a drag race between a porsche 911 turbo s completely standard and an audi rs3 with a built engine or a bmw m5 with a built engine well we are going to find out in this incredible race we've got on today so let me tell you about the porsche it's got a 3.8 litre twin turbo flat six with 650 horsepower 800 newton meters of torque eight speed dual clutch automatic gearbox all-wheel drive and it weighs 1 650 kilos quite an expensive car 156 000 pounds starting price this audi much cheaper so new it was about 45 000 pounds but then it had 30 grams worth of engine upgrades completely rebuilt pistons rods meth injection huge turbo too much for me to mention it's actually running on e85 fuel as well not normal pump fuel it's putting out 800 horsepower you can put out 850 but we might be traction limited so we dialed it back to 800 still got 950 newton meters of torque that is insane this car weighs around 1500 kilos obviously four wheel drive and a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox it's gonna be interesting to see how this little 2.5 liter five cylinder performs with all that power inside of it that bmw is equally as crazy 4.4 liter twin turbo v8 but it's tuned to a thousand horsepower 1100 newton meters of torque it's not eight speed automatic gearbox with launch control four-wheel drive it's heavy though it's around two tons for the normal m5 you're talking about a hundred thousand pounds then 30 grand on top for all the upgrades which are very similar to this only it's not running on e85 fuel just normal pump fuel for that one it doesn't have its launch control working though that's the big thing about that bmw whereas this does and of course the porsche does guess who's driving not the boss oh no where did that noise come from from the far side the bmw can't see matt they put them on the end we've got yanny it's on my own hey jan so you're in a high performance m5 from evolve i'm actually really disappointed that i'm on the end i can't even see you matt there's a car in between us gutted i don't normally like to let a car come between us yeah i might be able to send out a signal to you in the form of my raspy exhaust now have a listen to this it's good let's have a listen to yours this is so noisy here i'm gonna have to put the window down nice shall we hear the porsche for a laugh i like the way the car actually moves that's the only way i know is revenue because i can't hear anything this is so noisy inside it owns that car that you're driving so this car belongs to ricky so that's ricky from living life fast yeah yeah but both these cars are actually tuned by evolv automotive there is a link to their channel in the description below you can check that out this car is supposedly very fast i'm excited to see how quick it really is let's race man let's do this before it race though please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload okay let's do it buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site there's something a little bit odd when you launch this car it will run in automatic mode until fourth gear and then after that i have to change it to fifth sixth and seventh myself some reason also you might have seen an rs3 that's been tuned go up against a porsche 911 turbo s before on our channel it didn't manage to win but it was very quick it's gonna be interesting to see what happens here with the evolve tuned version of the rs3 also we've had a bmw from evolve with a thousand horsepower go up against a porsche 911 turbo s but it was the cab and it just worked what will happen with a different m5 two by evolve with a thousand horsepower going up against the coupe version of the turbo s we're going to find out let's just do it come on let's race i've got a feeling this guy's going to be absolutely bloody brutal come on right three two damn both of them look quick i don't know where everyone went the car turned off of me just as the arms were going up so i was doing the horn doing the horn but then yeah you had already gone three two it itself the car wouldn't go from third to fourth all these tuned cars man sake you like the porsche johnny jesus he wouldn't go from third to fourth on its own i'll do manual myself let's go again three two it's not going to fuel in it shut up over there bring the car over there first time beautiful yeah it's classic do you reckon it's fuel it didn't feel like it because it was at the top end of the rev range when it was just like burr it's like it's gearbox said no thank you oh it's so dark now have you locked him as well you've got to wear the keys in there the center oh yeah that's enough no three two not beating the porsche now i've got to take command death to the porsche 911 turbo s wow that was a very good start from the porsche but my life the rs3 my car just turned off on me why did it do so then what exactly happened while the tuned out he did the standing quarter mile in 9.9 seconds that's the best time in any car wow drag race and the first sub 10 second car meanwhile the tune bmw came second with a time of 10.1 seconds and the standard porsche was last with a still-impressive quarter-mile time of 10.2 seconds right now we have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour cars in comfort mode automatic mode for the gearbox get level everyone three two one go kick down that's it nothing to lose god wow i have to change it to fifth sixth and seventh myself myself didn't like it the porsche's gone now that's a win for the bmw no problem there this is fast man okay this time rolling race 50 miles an hour sports mode in manual oh my god gone drive train oh this is so quick now oh no it bailed again drive train gun what happened drivetrain car's dead it's gone oh dear they're just stopping it turning it off and on again ricky's car itself well if it's just a drive trainer right yeah it just has to restart they say drivetrain never for anything this thing did it again on a short shift probably about six and a half on it it's back in three two one go no this is not happy it's like they're taking turns which one to work and which one not to work okay now we have a rolling racing third gear 50 miles an hour i'm gonna count it in here we go three two one go that bmw's gone now can i catch him this thing's not whoa the boy's been destroyed this car's no joke mate when it's on it it's on it i've never seen a 911 turbo just gets so destroyed of you mate that 911 turbo it eats everything but these two cars serious apparently this car needs a gearbox service that bmw has like ghosts and stuff like that which is a theft prevention thing so you have to keep turning it off and on so by the time he's ready to launch it's going to reset everything and we're all gone so annoying anyway brake test when we hit the line full emergency stop from 70 miles an hour what's going to happen bmw one um what about between me and you in the porsche i think you might have just edged it mate i can see directly between the two cars i think we'll call that a draw bmw smashing the rolling races won the break test this wins the drag race the quickest car on car wow i hope you enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like now this was actually a very special video for myself and my editorial team at car wow because you may have noticed we've just hit 5 million subscribers so i want to say a big thank you to you for all of those who signed up at the very beginning when we put our first video review live back in april 2016 to those of you who just subscribed to the channel now and if you've been watching for a while and haven't subscribed yet just join us come on join us there's loads of great new content coming out in 2021 2022 you get the idea anyway listen in the mean time to watch other drug race videos just click on the video windows there or if you click on that box there you can actually check out the car wow drag race leaderboard to see how all the different cars i've done in our drag races over the years thanks for watching and i'll see you soonwhat will win in a drag race between a porsche 911 turbo s completely standard and an audi rs3 with a built engine or a bmw m5 with a built engine well we are going to find out in this incredible race we've got on today so let me tell you about the porsche it's got a 3.8 litre twin turbo flat six with 650 horsepower 800 newton meters of torque eight speed dual clutch automatic gearbox all-wheel drive and it weighs 1 650 kilos quite an expensive car 156 000 pounds starting price this audi much cheaper so new it was about 45 000 pounds but then it had 30 grams worth of engine upgrades completely rebuilt pistons rods meth injection huge turbo too much for me to mention it's actually running on e85 fuel as well not normal pump fuel it's putting out 800 horsepower you can put out 850 but we might be traction limited so we dialed it back to 800 still got 950 newton meters of torque that is insane this car weighs around 1500 kilos obviously four wheel drive and a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox it's gonna be interesting to see how this little 2.5 liter five cylinder performs with all that power inside of it that bmw is equally as crazy 4.4 liter twin turbo v8 but it's tuned to a thousand horsepower 1100 newton meters of torque it's not eight speed automatic gearbox with launch control four-wheel drive it's heavy though it's around two tons for the normal m5 you're talking about a hundred thousand pounds then 30 grand on top for all the upgrades which are very similar to this only it's not running on e85 fuel just normal pump fuel for that one it doesn't have its launch control working though that's the big thing about that bmw whereas this does and of course the porsche does guess who's driving not the boss oh no where did that noise come from from the far side the bmw can't see matt they put them on the end we've got yanny it's on my own hey jan so you're in a high performance m5 from evolve i'm actually really disappointed that i'm on the end i can't even see you matt there's a car in between us gutted i don't normally like to let a car come between us yeah i might be able to send out a signal to you in the form of my raspy exhaust now have a listen to this it's good let's have a listen to yours this is so noisy here i'm gonna have to put the window down nice shall we hear the porsche for a laugh i like the way the car actually moves that's the only way i know is revenue because i can't hear anything this is so noisy inside it owns that car that you're driving so this car belongs to ricky so that's ricky from living life fast yeah yeah but both these cars are actually tuned by evolv automotive there is a link to their channel in the description below you can check that out this car is supposedly very fast i'm excited to see how quick it really is let's race man let's do this before it race though please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload okay let's do it buying a new car then head to car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your one-stop car buying comparison site there's something a little bit odd when you launch this car it will run in automatic mode until fourth gear and then after that i have to change it to fifth sixth and seventh myself some reason also you might have seen an rs3 that's been tuned go up against a porsche 911 turbo s before on our channel it didn't manage to win but it was very quick it's gonna be interesting to see what happens here with the evolve tuned version of the rs3 also we've had a bmw from evolve with a thousand horsepower go up against a porsche 911 turbo s but it was the cab and it just worked what will happen with a different m5 two by evolve with a thousand horsepower going up against the coupe version of the turbo s we're going to find out let's just do it come on let's race i've got a feeling this guy's going to be absolutely bloody brutal come on right three two damn both of them look quick i don't know where everyone went the car turned off of me just as the arms were going up so i was doing the horn doing the horn but then yeah you had already gone three two it itself the car wouldn't go from third to fourth all these tuned cars man sake you like the porsche johnny jesus he wouldn't go from third to fourth on its own i'll do manual myself let's go again three two it's not going to fuel in it shut up over there bring the car over there first time beautiful yeah it's classic do you reckon it's fuel it didn't feel like it because it was at the top end of the rev range when it was just like burr it's like it's gearbox said no thank you oh it's so dark now have you locked him as well you've got to wear the keys in there the center oh yeah that's enough no three two not beating the porsche now i've got to take command death to the porsche 911 turbo s wow that was a very good start from the porsche but my life the rs3 my car just turned off on me why did it do so then what exactly happened while the tuned out he did the standing quarter mile in 9.9 seconds that's the best time in any car wow drag race and the first sub 10 second car meanwhile the tune bmw came second with a time of 10.1 seconds and the standard porsche was last with a still-impressive quarter-mile time of 10.2 seconds right now we have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour cars in comfort mode automatic mode for the gearbox get level everyone three two one go kick down that's it nothing to lose god wow i have to change it to fifth sixth and seventh myself myself didn't like it the porsche's gone now that's a win for the bmw no problem there this is fast man okay this time rolling race 50 miles an hour sports mode in manual oh my god gone drive train oh this is so quick now oh no it bailed again drive train gun what happened drivetrain car's dead it's gone oh dear they're just stopping it turning it off and on again ricky's car itself well if it's just a drive trainer right yeah it just has to restart they say drivetrain never for anything this thing did it again on a short shift probably about six and a half on it it's back in three two one go no this is not happy it's like they're taking turns which one to work and which one not to work okay now we have a rolling racing third gear 50 miles an hour i'm gonna count it in here we go three two one go that bmw's gone now can i catch him this thing's not whoa the boy's been destroyed this car's no joke mate when it's on it it's on it i've never seen a 911 turbo just gets so destroyed of you mate that 911 turbo it eats everything but these two cars serious apparently this car needs a gearbox service that bmw has like ghosts and stuff like that which is a theft prevention thing so you have to keep turning it off and on so by the time he's ready to launch it's going to reset everything and we're all gone so annoying anyway brake test when we hit the line full emergency stop from 70 miles an hour what's going to happen bmw one um what about between me and you in the porsche i think you might have just edged it mate i can see directly between the two cars i think we'll call that a draw bmw smashing the rolling races won the break test this wins the drag race the quickest car on car wow i hope you enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like now this was actually a very special video for myself and my editorial team at car wow because you may have noticed we've just hit 5 million subscribers so i want to say a big thank you to you for all of those who signed up at the very beginning when we put our first video review live back in april 2016 to those of you who just subscribed to the channel now and if you've been watching for a while and haven't subscribed yet just join us come on join us there's loads of great new content coming out in 2021 2022 you get the idea anyway listen in the mean time to watch other drug race videos just click on the video windows there or if you click on that box there you can actually check out the car wow drag race leaderboard to see how all the different cars i've done in our drag races over the years thanks for watching and i'll see you soon\n"