The Thrill of Drag Racing: A Tesla and Hummer Face-Off

In a thrilling display of speed and power, two of the most unlikely competitors faced off on the drag strip - a Tesla and a Hummer. The Tesla, loaded with passengers, managed to complete the standing quarter mile in an impressive 11.2 seconds, while the Hummer took 12 seconds to cross the finish line.

As the competition got underway, it was clear that this was going to be a battle for the ages. The commentators were on hand to guide viewers through the action, and their enthusiasm was infectious. "The way this thing puts its power down is pretty special," one of them noted. "It's less inertia, I think, because of being electric." Another added, "That's just another level fast, isn't it?" The Tesla's acceleration was indeed impressive, but the Hummer was not to be underestimated.

To level the playing field, Sam, the commentator, had an idea - he would add ballast to his own car. He hoped that this would bring him closer in weight to the Tesla, which was loaded with passengers weighing in at over 350 kilos. "I've got four passengers now," he said, "so however you weigh, it's not too bad." However, when asked about his actual weight, Sam claimed that he weighed around 87 kilos before the trip, and then added that he had gained an extra 82 kilos during the journey. His opponent, on the other hand, was confident in their own car's abilities and refused to play ball.

The two competitors took off from a standing start at 30 mph, with Sam calling out "3 2 1 go!" as they hit the gas. The Tesla quickly pulled ahead, but Sam was not far behind. However, when he tried to accelerate again, it became clear that he had cheated - or at least, he hadn't called out his 3 2 1 go loudly enough. Despite this, the commentators were impressed with the added weight of Sam's car and how little it seemed to affect its performance.

With the competition heating up, Sam suggested a new challenge - a quarter mile race from a standing start. The objective was not only to see which car could complete the distance first but also to reach a speed of 106 mph. "Let's do that," he said, and with that, the two cars took off once again.

In the end, it was Sam who emerged victorious, crossing the finish line before his opponent had reached 106 mph. However, the Tesla still managed to complete the quarter mile in an impressive time of 11.5 seconds - a full second faster than its opponent. When asked about his secret strategy, Sam claimed that his car's brakes didn't smoke when he hit the gas, which seemed like a pretty significant advantage.

As the competition came to an end, the commentators reflected on what had been a truly unique and entertaining experience. "I really hope you enjoyed the video," one of them said. "It's been so much fun shooting this love this thing it's bizarre kooky interesting not perfect obviously just been beaten in a brake test by that but wow what a thing anyway." Despite the outcome, the real winners were the viewers, who got to witness a thrilling display of speed and power from two very unlikely competitors.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat we'll win in a drag race between the new Tesla cyber truck and a Hummer EV well we're going to find out cuz I'm going to drag race them over the standing quarter mile and a very special drag strip which is actually at Tesla's Giga Factory in Austin Texas anyway I'm my Watson and you're watching carwow now let me tell you about this new Tesla cyber truck so there are three versions there's a rear drive version with a single motor there's a dual motor version which has four-wheel drive and then there's this one which is known as the Cyber Beast it has three motors one in the front and two on the rear the result is a combined 845 horsepower and 930 newm of torque now this is quite a heavy truck because you got a big battery of about 123 KW hours this thing weighs in at 3,080 kilos terms of pricing $96,000 before taxes that the entry level cyber drug starts from around $50,000 however we need to find out about its rival the Hummer EV and let's find out about it from its driver we got racing driver Sam with us hello racing driver Sam you appear to have come to America with us we are definitely in America aren't we well for sure we can't get either of these cars in Europe and I'm not sure whether this Tesla is ever going to be sold in Europe because of pedestrian protection regulations in the EU are a little bit stricter than in the US as I look at you there this screams of aliens you know the sequel that land vehicle that they used you look very cool you're more Ripley than the Marines but you still look cool I thought you going to say you're more ripped than the Marines no no just Ripp it okay right thank you very much Sam yeah you're truck you know it's a hum it looks cool it's got presents I mean but this is just on another level some people hate it some people love it I'm in the love it Camp I really do like the look of it but I like unusual vehicles I would really like one of these in fact I'm going to try and buy one I've got an order in we'll see if I can buy one and ship it back to the UK but enough about this cyber truck tell me about your Hummer EV so you just said it this the Hummer EV so this the same as you this is a tri motor which is super cool two on the rear axle one on the front with some special bits and pieces 104 horsepower which is a lot but uh I think that's kind of in the ballpark with you 1,485 newm of torque all-wheel drive but this weighs 4,100 kilos XS is the word of the day I think and the starting price is 9,000 which is about £86,000 it's really interesting let's put the stats up of these vehicles side by side so you can actually look at them you basically have me beaten on power on torque your battery is considerably large I think it's like 230 KW hours or something like that but that means it's really heavy and I've got you well and truly beat on weight and this is slightly less expensive than that it's going to be interesting this race now this is the part of the video where we did the customy car my sound check I'm sure there's a feature in here where I can make some noises from the car let's have a look toy box here we go boom box get in there horn sound replace horn sound replace horn stop Curr a megaphone hello hello hey hey Sam can you hear me talking from the car who can you hear that W oh hello is that louder is that a dog barking okay so I'm going to do the custom car sound check now I figured out how to make this work that was more rolling coal than um Eevee right you've got to do your sound check does your car do kind of weird funny sound stuff yeah I can but keep talking like that that's going to make it much easier for me go on do your noise go on what you got to do your sound do a sound broom broom broom broom yeah that's definitely 1 n to me let's let's just move on with the race now if you haven't done so already and you like these kind of videos make sure you're subscribed to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload and we've got some more crazy videos coming with this cyber truck you won't want to miss out on those now let's race let's turn this off off off off off off off there we go a yeah watch this actually I don't know why that's called I quite like it though I'm going to close it look you look like Pac-Man can you do that without getting out your truck no I don't think I can I think that's another point to me then so you're going to make up a game that you know you can do things and you know I can't and then you're going to give yourself points for it is that how this is going today I didn't know that you couldn't do that I just assumed that you might be to I can on mine what can you do all right if I do something that you definitely can't do I want 10 points okay fine you can have 10 points but let's see what you got hi my friend I'm crab walking wow oh wow that looks cool I like that well now I can do something that you can't do um we need someone from Tesla can I get someone from tesra over here please formal protest I don't have an engineer that I can call over yeah it doesn't matter but you've done the rese search on your truck we haven't done this I just need help from someone from Tesla but I have 10 points I'll tell you what you can have 10 points but I can disconnect my steering wheel from my wheels if I can do that I want 20 points see watch my wheels move yeah can you see my wheels moving yeah watch this do the thing with the wheel where it doesn't move I'm going to turn my steering wheel and my wheels moving so you've broken it no the real world application for that I just showed you how I can park this really in a tight place and you're showing me that the steering rack's disconnected it shows that this car's steering wheel isn't connected to the wheels which means that actually you can go from Lock to lock just that far and the car figures out exactly how much lock to provide on your steering so when you're like going around tight turns you're not constantly going like out on the steering wheel it does it all for you making the steering wheel not do anything isn't proving the point that's 20 points 20 point where did 20 points come from I just decided let's get on with the rise I just need to figure out how to turn this car back on there we go watch this tap a key card hit the brake there we go we're on see we're back but did you crab you didn't crab you've got crabs if I did you gave them to me I did not give you crabs let's let's just go on with the race this is nonsense Sam just before you race one thing I want to point out and you'll be familiar with this I want to make an excuse before I launch and it is that your side of the track is dry mine is damp tough Sam yes you Sam you Matthew two one he's done yes hi yeah it wasn't a bad launch but I could have been a little bit more prepared um wow that Tesla gets off the line didn't it it totally gets off the line do you want another go best out of three it's not going to help you it's now become a thing a little is good more must be better three two one he was better off the line that time no my God it seems to top out like 113 so I didn't hook up quite as well that time you got a better launch than the first go I still beat you and what's interesting is I'm hitting my like what seems to be a limited top speed before the quarter mile it seems to top out about 114 m hour how about you this gets to 106 mph pretty quickly and that's it while it looks like you're gapping me I think had my speed kept going after 106 I don't think the Gap would have been that big but likewise you know I could have done a quicker quarter mile time if they just increased the top speed by I don't know like 5 10 m hour let me just check that with the Tesla guy so we just do one more run absolutely can I just make one point when I put this into launch mode it's called whatts as in the electrical watts to freedom and then the seat vibrates the entire time until you launch it's making me confused yeah haven't had a little accident have you as a result you can power hose these out can't you so rich is a top speed like a limiter on this car what are you hitting 114 bit of product feedback I think it might be worth raising it just a few more on hour to get you to the quter mile you got it no problem I won't send you a bill for that bit of consultancy advice so we've got a laptop hooked up to the car and we're doing a firmware update to it so before anyone starts get intention is cheating they're not cheating what's happened is this is a pre-production car it's a test vehicle that the engineers use it's on Old firmware now the rear drive and the dual motor cars are limited to 112 mph however the cyberbeast the tri motor versions have a limit of 130 mph but this being a test vehicle it's still got the old firmware on which isn't right for the cyberbeast version that it actually is so they're putting the proper cyberbeast firmware on now which will take the top speed from 112 to 130 so it's like the what exactly the customer will have so they're now making it as a customer car would be and we'll see what that does to the time by how much more I can destroy Sam right then we've stood around I've had a drink I've had a Wii are you happy are you ready you've done something so what's happened what's going on listen let's just do this race and then I'll explain to you exactly what's happened right yeah I've played this game with you before I think the outcome is going to be enough explanation isn't it probably let's find out three 2 one come on that hooked well oh he had a really good launch wow keep going keep climbing keep climbing keep climbing yes that's better woohoo um what did you do this is a tri motor car right but it had firmware on it from a dual motor car the tri motor cyberbeast cars have a speed limiter of 130 so they just put the proper firmware on for this particular car so it's like what a customer has because this is an engineering car and the engineers have been like doing testing and they left the old firmware on and blah blah blah blah blah so what time did you get well list of the thing to find out so then what exactly happened well the Tesla won it completed the standing quarter mile in 11.2 seconds the Hummer talk 12 seconds right and Sam now we going have a rolling race and we're going to race to the quarter mile do it from 30 mph then I'll call it in and we'll see who gets the quarter mile first okay it'd be really good to see the pick up between the two cars when you're rolling from 30 mph let's do it get level with me then young man get to 30 pretty quickly come on ready 3 2 1 go the way this put his P I was pretty special let's be honest they both picked up really quick but this just picks up quicker right it's less inertia I think this against anything else electric for its size would be incredible but I think that's just another level fast isn't it yeah but it is weight right I mean we're talking an extra ton and you're having to shift that extra ton like that no chance I'd love to put some cement bags into the back of that and see what had actually made a difference I I still think it would be almost the same I've got an idea right and Sam so what I've done to try and even the balance a little bit I've added some ballast probably not enough ballast but um let's just check so I've got four passengers now so however you 87 kilos that's not too bad yeah yeah how about you 80 80 what you 82 82 really you're 822 what you made out of depleted your radium 84 floody hell I'm like 73 let's see what that does though right formal protest about Rory's weight I don't believe that no how however you really no 87 genuinely that was before you came on this trip last night you had six points that's true that is true you're at least 90 now so 350 kilos we're talking probably that I've just added to this which still doesn't get anywhere near the weight of that do you want to call this one in actually Sam okay get level get level get level three 2 one go hey you cheated you absolutely Che it doesn't matter it's relevant ah limiter look at that on its nose you cheated a little bit there with your 3 2 1 go I had to do something I didn't cheat that much I was just enthusiastic with it mate you totally cheated and I still came past you I think the added weight really made no difference to me they can stay in there for the breaking test right in fact you know what head back to the start got an idea well we're going to do a quar mile I think I'm with in with a shot here when I hit 106 I'm going to say now and that's the end of the race cuz it's not fair that you can just keep accelerating away you want to see who gets to 106 First as well as who does the quarter mile first yeah that well-known standard of racing the 106 mph race yeah okay let let's do that two 1 yeah you've lost with you 106 nonsense now M I beat you to 106 how' you know you didn't hear me say now I was ahead of you the whole race which means I have to have beaten you to 106 details details you're on fire by the way you'll notice my braks aren't smoking but whatever okay that didn't actually make much difference at the time no yeah pretty impressive you want to find out what it is let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well with the Tesla loaded with people it did the standing quarter mile in 11.5 seconds the hom talk 12 seconds again now we're going to a break test from 70 M an hour see which car stops in the shortest distance when we reach the cones whichever car stops in the shortest distance does win here we go come on I don't think that I did a very good job there I agree I want another go and as this is the most safety conscious thing we're doing I think realistically I'm a heavier car and I beat you so I win the entire video anyway listen I really hope you enjoyed the video U it's been so much fun shooting this love this thing it's bizarre kooky interesting not perfect obviously just been beaten in a brake test by that but wow what a thing anyway I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like you want to watch some more videos click on the video windows and if you click on the car wre icon you can get a car wag to compare this car's qu my time to everything else we've ever drug raced thanks for watchingwhat we'll win in a drag race between the new Tesla cyber truck and a Hummer EV well we're going to find out cuz I'm going to drag race them over the standing quarter mile and a very special drag strip which is actually at Tesla's Giga Factory in Austin Texas anyway I'm my Watson and you're watching carwow now let me tell you about this new Tesla cyber truck so there are three versions there's a rear drive version with a single motor there's a dual motor version which has four-wheel drive and then there's this one which is known as the Cyber Beast it has three motors one in the front and two on the rear the result is a combined 845 horsepower and 930 newm of torque now this is quite a heavy truck because you got a big battery of about 123 KW hours this thing weighs in at 3,080 kilos terms of pricing $96,000 before taxes that the entry level cyber drug starts from around $50,000 however we need to find out about its rival the Hummer EV and let's find out about it from its driver we got racing driver Sam with us hello racing driver Sam you appear to have come to America with us we are definitely in America aren't we well for sure we can't get either of these cars in Europe and I'm not sure whether this Tesla is ever going to be sold in Europe because of pedestrian protection regulations in the EU are a little bit stricter than in the US as I look at you there this screams of aliens you know the sequel that land vehicle that they used you look very cool you're more Ripley than the Marines but you still look cool I thought you going to say you're more ripped than the Marines no no just Ripp it okay right thank you very much Sam yeah you're truck you know it's a hum it looks cool it's got presents I mean but this is just on another level some people hate it some people love it I'm in the love it Camp I really do like the look of it but I like unusual vehicles I would really like one of these in fact I'm going to try and buy one I've got an order in we'll see if I can buy one and ship it back to the UK but enough about this cyber truck tell me about your Hummer EV so you just said it this the Hummer EV so this the same as you this is a tri motor which is super cool two on the rear axle one on the front with some special bits and pieces 104 horsepower which is a lot but uh I think that's kind of in the ballpark with you 1,485 newm of torque all-wheel drive but this weighs 4,100 kilos XS is the word of the day I think and the starting price is 9,000 which is about £86,000 it's really interesting let's put the stats up of these vehicles side by side so you can actually look at them you basically have me beaten on power on torque your battery is considerably large I think it's like 230 KW hours or something like that but that means it's really heavy and I've got you well and truly beat on weight and this is slightly less expensive than that it's going to be interesting this race now this is the part of the video where we did the customy car my sound check I'm sure there's a feature in here where I can make some noises from the car let's have a look toy box here we go boom box get in there horn sound replace horn sound replace horn stop Curr a megaphone hello hello hey hey Sam can you hear me talking from the car who can you hear that W oh hello is that louder is that a dog barking okay so I'm going to do the custom car sound check now I figured out how to make this work that was more rolling coal than um Eevee right you've got to do your sound check does your car do kind of weird funny sound stuff yeah I can but keep talking like that that's going to make it much easier for me go on do your noise go on what you got to do your sound do a sound broom broom broom broom yeah that's definitely 1 n to me let's let's just move on with the race now if you haven't done so already and you like these kind of videos make sure you're subscribed to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload and we've got some more crazy videos coming with this cyber truck you won't want to miss out on those now let's race let's turn this off off off off off off off there we go a yeah watch this actually I don't know why that's called I quite like it though I'm going to close it look you look like Pac-Man can you do that without getting out your truck no I don't think I can I think that's another point to me then so you're going to make up a game that you know you can do things and you know I can't and then you're going to give yourself points for it is that how this is going today I didn't know that you couldn't do that I just assumed that you might be to I can on mine what can you do all right if I do something that you definitely can't do I want 10 points okay fine you can have 10 points but let's see what you got hi my friend I'm crab walking wow oh wow that looks cool I like that well now I can do something that you can't do um we need someone from Tesla can I get someone from tesra over here please formal protest I don't have an engineer that I can call over yeah it doesn't matter but you've done the rese search on your truck we haven't done this I just need help from someone from Tesla but I have 10 points I'll tell you what you can have 10 points but I can disconnect my steering wheel from my wheels if I can do that I want 20 points see watch my wheels move yeah can you see my wheels moving yeah watch this do the thing with the wheel where it doesn't move I'm going to turn my steering wheel and my wheels moving so you've broken it no the real world application for that I just showed you how I can park this really in a tight place and you're showing me that the steering rack's disconnected it shows that this car's steering wheel isn't connected to the wheels which means that actually you can go from Lock to lock just that far and the car figures out exactly how much lock to provide on your steering so when you're like going around tight turns you're not constantly going like out on the steering wheel it does it all for you making the steering wheel not do anything isn't proving the point that's 20 points 20 point where did 20 points come from I just decided let's get on with the rise I just need to figure out how to turn this car back on there we go watch this tap a key card hit the brake there we go we're on see we're back but did you crab you didn't crab you've got crabs if I did you gave them to me I did not give you crabs let's let's just go on with the race this is nonsense Sam just before you race one thing I want to point out and you'll be familiar with this I want to make an excuse before I launch and it is that your side of the track is dry mine is damp tough Sam yes you Sam you Matthew two one he's done yes hi yeah it wasn't a bad launch but I could have been a little bit more prepared um wow that Tesla gets off the line didn't it it totally gets off the line do you want another go best out of three it's not going to help you it's now become a thing a little is good more must be better three two one he was better off the line that time no my God it seems to top out like 113 so I didn't hook up quite as well that time you got a better launch than the first go I still beat you and what's interesting is I'm hitting my like what seems to be a limited top speed before the quarter mile it seems to top out about 114 m hour how about you this gets to 106 mph pretty quickly and that's it while it looks like you're gapping me I think had my speed kept going after 106 I don't think the Gap would have been that big but likewise you know I could have done a quicker quarter mile time if they just increased the top speed by I don't know like 5 10 m hour let me just check that with the Tesla guy so we just do one more run absolutely can I just make one point when I put this into launch mode it's called whatts as in the electrical watts to freedom and then the seat vibrates the entire time until you launch it's making me confused yeah haven't had a little accident have you as a result you can power hose these out can't you so rich is a top speed like a limiter on this car what are you hitting 114 bit of product feedback I think it might be worth raising it just a few more on hour to get you to the quter mile you got it no problem I won't send you a bill for that bit of consultancy advice so we've got a laptop hooked up to the car and we're doing a firmware update to it so before anyone starts get intention is cheating they're not cheating what's happened is this is a pre-production car it's a test vehicle that the engineers use it's on Old firmware now the rear drive and the dual motor cars are limited to 112 mph however the cyberbeast the tri motor versions have a limit of 130 mph but this being a test vehicle it's still got the old firmware on which isn't right for the cyberbeast version that it actually is so they're putting the proper cyberbeast firmware on now which will take the top speed from 112 to 130 so it's like the what exactly the customer will have so they're now making it as a customer car would be and we'll see what that does to the time by how much more I can destroy Sam right then we've stood around I've had a drink I've had a Wii are you happy are you ready you've done something so what's happened what's going on listen let's just do this race and then I'll explain to you exactly what's happened right yeah I've played this game with you before I think the outcome is going to be enough explanation isn't it probably let's find out three 2 one come on that hooked well oh he had a really good launch wow keep going keep climbing keep climbing keep climbing yes that's better woohoo um what did you do this is a tri motor car right but it had firmware on it from a dual motor car the tri motor cyberbeast cars have a speed limiter of 130 so they just put the proper firmware on for this particular car so it's like what a customer has because this is an engineering car and the engineers have been like doing testing and they left the old firmware on and blah blah blah blah blah so what time did you get well list of the thing to find out so then what exactly happened well the Tesla won it completed the standing quarter mile in 11.2 seconds the Hummer talk 12 seconds right and Sam now we going have a rolling race and we're going to race to the quarter mile do it from 30 mph then I'll call it in and we'll see who gets the quarter mile first okay it'd be really good to see the pick up between the two cars when you're rolling from 30 mph let's do it get level with me then young man get to 30 pretty quickly come on ready 3 2 1 go the way this put his P I was pretty special let's be honest they both picked up really quick but this just picks up quicker right it's less inertia I think this against anything else electric for its size would be incredible but I think that's just another level fast isn't it yeah but it is weight right I mean we're talking an extra ton and you're having to shift that extra ton like that no chance I'd love to put some cement bags into the back of that and see what had actually made a difference I I still think it would be almost the same I've got an idea right and Sam so what I've done to try and even the balance a little bit I've added some ballast probably not enough ballast but um let's just check so I've got four passengers now so however you 87 kilos that's not too bad yeah yeah how about you 80 80 what you 82 82 really you're 822 what you made out of depleted your radium 84 floody hell I'm like 73 let's see what that does though right formal protest about Rory's weight I don't believe that no how however you really no 87 genuinely that was before you came on this trip last night you had six points that's true that is true you're at least 90 now so 350 kilos we're talking probably that I've just added to this which still doesn't get anywhere near the weight of that do you want to call this one in actually Sam okay get level get level get level three 2 one go hey you cheated you absolutely Che it doesn't matter it's relevant ah limiter look at that on its nose you cheated a little bit there with your 3 2 1 go I had to do something I didn't cheat that much I was just enthusiastic with it mate you totally cheated and I still came past you I think the added weight really made no difference to me they can stay in there for the breaking test right in fact you know what head back to the start got an idea well we're going to do a quar mile I think I'm with in with a shot here when I hit 106 I'm going to say now and that's the end of the race cuz it's not fair that you can just keep accelerating away you want to see who gets to 106 First as well as who does the quarter mile first yeah that well-known standard of racing the 106 mph race yeah okay let let's do that two 1 yeah you've lost with you 106 nonsense now M I beat you to 106 how' you know you didn't hear me say now I was ahead of you the whole race which means I have to have beaten you to 106 details details you're on fire by the way you'll notice my braks aren't smoking but whatever okay that didn't actually make much difference at the time no yeah pretty impressive you want to find out what it is let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well with the Tesla loaded with people it did the standing quarter mile in 11.5 seconds the hom talk 12 seconds again now we're going to a break test from 70 M an hour see which car stops in the shortest distance when we reach the cones whichever car stops in the shortest distance does win here we go come on I don't think that I did a very good job there I agree I want another go and as this is the most safety conscious thing we're doing I think realistically I'm a heavier car and I beat you so I win the entire video anyway listen I really hope you enjoyed the video U it's been so much fun shooting this love this thing it's bizarre kooky interesting not perfect obviously just been beaten in a brake test by that but wow what a thing anyway I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like you want to watch some more videos click on the video windows and if you click on the car wre icon you can get a car wag to compare this car's qu my time to everything else we've ever drug raced thanks for watching\n"