The Great Drag Race: A Tale of Mark and His 850 Horsepower Beast

As we revved up our engines, ready to take on the quarter mile challenge, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. My opponent, Mark, was known for his daredevil driving skills and willingness to push his cars to the limit. But I had confidence in my own vehicle, with its 850 horsepower petrol combustion engine. After all, it had been around the block a few times, jumping over other cars like the Lamborghini Hurrican Stato that Mark had jumped.

As we lined up at the starting line, I couldn't help but notice Mark's car. It was sleek and powerful, with a look of determination etched on its face. But as we prepared to take off, I noticed something suspicious - Mark's foot seemed to be hovering over the accelerator pedal, as if he were itching to get going. And indeed, as soon as I gave the signal, Mark sprang into action, flooring it and leaving me in his dust.

But I was not one to give up easily. I hit my own accelerator pedal, feeling a surge of power as my engine roared to life. The car shot forward like a bullet, but Mark was hot on my heels, his own car surging forward with equal speed. As we approached the quarter mile mark, it became clear that this was going to be a close competition. I could see Mark's car edging out of frame, only for him to reappear, his face twisted in concentration.

But as we crossed the finish line, I realized that I had cheated - just a little bit. My foot had slipped off the accelerator pedal before I gave the signal, and I had somehow managed to get a head start on Mark. But he was not one to be outdone, and he called me out on my cheating. "If you win," he said, "I cheat and if you win, I don't cheat." It was a clever move, but I knew that I couldn't let him get away with it.

The real test of our skills came when Mark suggested we do a brake test from 100 mph. We lined up at the starting line once again, this time with one eye on the brakes and the other on the road ahead. The goal was simple - whoever could stop their car in the shortest distance would win. But as soon as I looked over at Mark's car, I realized that my own brakes were not going to be enough to compete.

Mark's car had massive brakes, designed specifically for high-performance driving. And as we approached the finish line, it became clear that his car was going to leave me in its dust once again. The stop time was... well, let's just say that I won't be winning any awards for my braking skills anytime soon.

Despite my lackluster performance, Mark and I both agreed that this had been a fun competition. And as we walked away from the finish line, Mark turned to me with a grin on his face. "You know," he said, "I think you might have underestimated my car." And with that, he revealed the secret behind its incredible speed - gravel in the gearbox.

It was a clever trick, but I couldn't help feeling a twinge of disappointment. My own car may not be as flashy or powerful as Mark's, but it had heart and soul. And as we parted ways, I knew that this was far from the last time that Mark and I would go head-to-head in a drag racing competition.

For those who want to see what one of my favorite electric cars has to offer, click on the link in the description below for more information. And if you're interested in seeing how our quarter mile times compare to every other car we've ever drag raced, be sure to check out the video that follows this article. Thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat we'll win in a drag race between an electric Brabus and a petrol Brabus anyway we're going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow Buy sell carwow now let me tell you about this Brabus smart hash one what a terrible name braa smart is cool but hash one anyhow it's got two electric motors one on each axle combined they put out 430 horsepower and 580 Newt M of torque this thing is quite heavy though cuz of the batteries 1.9 tons and it's actually quite well priced for an EV especially one that's so quick and Powerful £44,000 actually really really like this car it's nice inside it's got some cool like additions like these red seat belts beautiful big glass roof and it drives beautifully plus it's got banging performance it's going to be interesting to see if it can beat that internal combustion engine brabers to find out exactly what that is let's speak to its owner it's Mark McAn from Mark mccan 64 hi Mark McAn 64 hello it's quite handy being leftand drive it's all right we can look at each other so our camera my camera looks at you your camera looks at me beautiful so tell me about that car what exactly is it it's a Mercedes but it's been Brabus yeah so it starts off the G Coupe Mercedes and they send it to the Brabus Factory and they sort of do some pretty mad things to it to make it sound amazing but also go amazing right so what engine's in it so it's a 6 L V8 twin turbo with 850 horsepower 1450 new met of torque it weighs 2,350 kg 7speed automatic I think I've got everything you've got pretty much twice the horsepower that I've got you've got more than double the torque that I've got your car is what 300 kilos heavier that's all you are going to absolutely batter me right all I want to say is that car is you you suit that to Perfection if I've ever seen a man suit a car that is you I'm so taking that as a compliment I really am cuz I like this car it's even got a little fox Avatar there and you know what let's say I do a fart right which I do quite a lot especially when I've had onions like I have for lunch I can press a button on here and it will get rid of the FY smell why do I going to climb it and I press air quality deodorization what it's doing now is lowering the windows blasting the air con to get rid of my FY smell see this car is a bit of me 100% what clever thing can your car do pretty much noises the only thing it's got going for it it sounds amazing well seeing as my window's slightly open let's have a little listen to your car cuz all M made was a sound from the airon this is good I warn you is that a soft limiter Mark yeah but you want to it change down it sounds unbelievable okay I'll be listening for that in the race but I might not hear it cuz you'll be behind me can we just talk about what cars you own how many electric cars do you have by the way so this is the thing right if I'm being brutally honest electric cars aren't as much fun as petrol cars but for some people they are right depending on your journey the reason I don't have one is because ultimately I need to just be able to jump in a car do like 200 300 miles without having to think about charging sometimes I struggle to fill up with fuel you know what I mean I turn up to a place and I'm pretty much empty and that's a bit of a stress and I know that I can pop into a fuel station at any point and up within like 2 or 3 minutes and sometimes that is even just too much of a hassle so electric cars for me personally aren't right but for lots of other people they are right and in terms of straight line performance they are pretty darn good and you'll find out now in fact if you want to find out what's the right electric car for you click on the pop out banner up there I'll for the link in the description below to get a carre right and we've got our best electric cars and you can find out how much you can save on one and you can also find out the latest offers through our carw dealers so go click the link there alternatively if you want to do that at a later date just simply Google help me carwow and we will help you change your car not only get your next car but also sell your current car right you have dealers all across the country bidding on it in an online auction simple and free anyway that's enough um car wire plugging let's go on with racing uh I'm nervous I'll be honest I am very very nervous it will be embarrassing if you don't win it will be really embarrassing let's find out luckily he didn't talk about the price oh yeah so how much is that car now how much did you pay for it and how many miles did it have on the clock when you bought it it was H it was £300,000 from the from new which is ridiculous and I I paid 140 so yeah probably about the same as yours maybe is no this is 40 pretty much yeah about the one what's that worth now uh this is currently I think probably worth about 140 it hasn't really gone up because it's leftand drive but I valued in my video 180 but we all like to inflate the price of our cars I value did at this and I've still got it cuz I couldn't sell it all right let's go with the race three two one oh no oh that's closer that fall oh his car crap a what that's embarrassing that is embarrassing that is embarrassing that's like honestly that's like really embarrassing I thought that was going to do that Bloody electric I'll get it as well but this is the future isn't it getting beaten by electric cars all these petrol expensive cars but that was particularly slow like really I took off and then I thought okay I'm a bit ahead of him I'm not that far ahead he's going to come pass me now but it just didn't this I kep on increasing the Gap yeah same I was hoping for that and we were as fast as it will go she's in sport plus I have got service B overdue by 53 days maybe that's it no does he have launch control no we had a bit of brake boost there but like yeah no we haven't so this is a family car it's got 850 horsepower say you say didn't seem like it what's it doing with its horsepower it's just a lie isn't it hasn't really they just say it as like I said looking and sounding good is what this car does not really meant for the drag strip I don't think it's got 8 well apparently 850 horsepower and 1,400 Newton met of torque there's something wrong with the engine I'm telling you it's not doing those numbers we need to get that have you had that on the dyno no is that no we'll have to we should take this to the dyno you'll be sorely disappointed well let's do it again best two out of three three two one like that he actually launched better than me but now I'm just pulling on him petrol ignite damn oh he's going to love this that's really embarrassing right now when I floor the accelerator there is a bit of a delay before this takes off yours shoots off cuz your brake boost in it after that this just comes past that has not got 850 horsepower there's absolutely no way in hell must be that service over I tell you this is all I've got it we I don't know what else to do can we cheat can we go Offroad can we do long long runs let's do a mile I know what you want to do you want to do something like 400 mile a quick stop a fuel station you might win then no that's it let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well the smart one it completed the standing quarter mile in 12.1 seconds the Mercedes took 12.4 seconds we're going to do a ring race from 30 mph first two the half mile wins three 2 one go now there is a problem with this car and I'm about to experience it now so got speed limit to 140 M hour he's going to start coming past me no he's not we need to do it again we need to do it again why do we need to do it again shut up shut up shut up what happened we need to do it again what did you do what what happened I overr second to third we need to do it again I was like spending most of my time just stuck at 11 140 M an hour and you're just like not even in it oh my God right I'm willing to do it again because I don't want your car to be that bad you know you said it was like worth 140 or whatever or 180 it's not is it right now you're not going to sell that for that much money shut up let me have another go shut up shut up shut up so here we go okay your level just pick whatever gear you want whatever you want you ready 3 2 1 go that's better come on come on come on come on petrol he's going to be in with a fighting chance cuz I'm going to hit my limiter in a second I've hit my limiter come on there he is there he is oh it's going to go it's going to in yes mate you did it you did it well done I hit my limiter and you came past I'm so glad ah you know if this didn't have a limiter because you can't actually go quicker than like 70 really on the motorway apart from if you're in Germany you wouldn't have won they had it this destricted you your car was just battered took a long time to catch you up then I was getting very worried and I did actually beat you to the quarter mile and so we taken out the whole like electric cars are brilliant at launching kind of thing let's really take it out now so we're going to do it from 50 m an hour you're obviously going to do me to the half mile but we'll do it anyway but it' be interesting to see if you can do me to the quarter mile right from 50 m hour can you doing me to the qu yes I have confidence in the petrol combustion engine with all your 850 horsepower not it's had hard life to be fair it's been around the field a few times jumped yeah it's had hard life yeah you do like to jump cars you're a bit nuts in that respect it's got a Lamborghini Hurrican Stato and he jumped it he put a video out where it looks like everything's fine with the car but there's another video out which reveals something different doesn't it yeah it's slightly it only tweaked it to be fair because um yeah that car definitely is never get going to get damaged in normal life cuz what we put it through was a hell of a day and it survived with just minor injuries so there's a link in the description if you want to see that video okay go check it out okay from 50 m hour then let's see if I can beat you to the quarter mile here we go 3 2 1 go you put your foot down a bit soon I saw you I saw you can you beat me to the quart M though yeah come on here he goes now oh I think you might have cheated a little bit there mark you put your foot down a little bit earlier yeah you did I saw your car squat before I go yes do properly I saw your car squat it was just getting ready that's all you going right and now I'm not sure whether you're going to beat me to the quarter mile and I'm going to be watching you on go right not on 32 1 3 2 1 go premature again no cheating 321 go so you couldn't cheat that time come on let's do to the half oh come on that half mile oh it's going to be close come on come on come on a yeah right you couldn't cheat that time could you so if I win I cheat and if you win you don't cheat is that how it works in this show sometimes I do no I don't mean to cheat but accidentally cheat I didn't cheat then I am at an advantage because I you know I call it in so it is easier for me but I don't actually press it before I say go you definitely did that last time while I may have an advantage you technically should have an advantage because you don't have a speed limiter at 114 m hour like I do and you got twice the power and more than twice the torque agreed but I've got to have like fire and spark plugs and Pistons going up all sorts of stuff I'm pretty sure other cars that weigh as much as that with the same amount of power and torque are quicker than that I think that's got some kind of like break on its axles or something what is going on have you got like gravel in the gearbox or something do you remember when we did this against the Urus as well it got annihilated it looks amazing it sounds amazing but it's really not a fast car but I can live with it cuz no one's buying it right you might win this oh actually looking at the size of your brakes you might not but let's do it anyway let's do a break test okay then brake test from 100 mph when we reach the line for an emergency stop car that stops in the shortest distance wins if you'd like to see a bras car actually do some decent performance click on the pop out banner up there I'll follow the link in the description below for a very very special video if not stay here for the brake test come on smarty pants stop oh you w I don't think either car actually excelled there did they it's like sort of trying to stop two London buses I was quite disappointed with this I thought I'd beat you based on the size of your brakes but you won well done better at braking this is so bad so bad now if you want to see what is one of my favorite electric cars performance for the money and you want to see what the offer is through car click on the pop out B up there for the link in the description below to check out the car and the offer all right anyway I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you think of Mark's Car in the comments below do you think it's really got 850 horsepower you want to watch some other videos click on those windows there and click on that box there to go to car W to see how these cars quarter mile times compare to every other car we've ever drag raced thanks for watchingwhat we'll win in a drag race between an electric Brabus and a petrol Brabus anyway we're going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow Buy sell carwow now let me tell you about this Brabus smart hash one what a terrible name braa smart is cool but hash one anyhow it's got two electric motors one on each axle combined they put out 430 horsepower and 580 Newt M of torque this thing is quite heavy though cuz of the batteries 1.9 tons and it's actually quite well priced for an EV especially one that's so quick and Powerful £44,000 actually really really like this car it's nice inside it's got some cool like additions like these red seat belts beautiful big glass roof and it drives beautifully plus it's got banging performance it's going to be interesting to see if it can beat that internal combustion engine brabers to find out exactly what that is let's speak to its owner it's Mark McAn from Mark mccan 64 hi Mark McAn 64 hello it's quite handy being leftand drive it's all right we can look at each other so our camera my camera looks at you your camera looks at me beautiful so tell me about that car what exactly is it it's a Mercedes but it's been Brabus yeah so it starts off the G Coupe Mercedes and they send it to the Brabus Factory and they sort of do some pretty mad things to it to make it sound amazing but also go amazing right so what engine's in it so it's a 6 L V8 twin turbo with 850 horsepower 1450 new met of torque it weighs 2,350 kg 7speed automatic I think I've got everything you've got pretty much twice the horsepower that I've got you've got more than double the torque that I've got your car is what 300 kilos heavier that's all you are going to absolutely batter me right all I want to say is that car is you you suit that to Perfection if I've ever seen a man suit a car that is you I'm so taking that as a compliment I really am cuz I like this car it's even got a little fox Avatar there and you know what let's say I do a fart right which I do quite a lot especially when I've had onions like I have for lunch I can press a button on here and it will get rid of the FY smell why do I going to climb it and I press air quality deodorization what it's doing now is lowering the windows blasting the air con to get rid of my FY smell see this car is a bit of me 100% what clever thing can your car do pretty much noises the only thing it's got going for it it sounds amazing well seeing as my window's slightly open let's have a little listen to your car cuz all M made was a sound from the airon this is good I warn you is that a soft limiter Mark yeah but you want to it change down it sounds unbelievable okay I'll be listening for that in the race but I might not hear it cuz you'll be behind me can we just talk about what cars you own how many electric cars do you have by the way so this is the thing right if I'm being brutally honest electric cars aren't as much fun as petrol cars but for some people they are right depending on your journey the reason I don't have one is because ultimately I need to just be able to jump in a car do like 200 300 miles without having to think about charging sometimes I struggle to fill up with fuel you know what I mean I turn up to a place and I'm pretty much empty and that's a bit of a stress and I know that I can pop into a fuel station at any point and up within like 2 or 3 minutes and sometimes that is even just too much of a hassle so electric cars for me personally aren't right but for lots of other people they are right and in terms of straight line performance they are pretty darn good and you'll find out now in fact if you want to find out what's the right electric car for you click on the pop out banner up there I'll for the link in the description below to get a carre right and we've got our best electric cars and you can find out how much you can save on one and you can also find out the latest offers through our carw dealers so go click the link there alternatively if you want to do that at a later date just simply Google help me carwow and we will help you change your car not only get your next car but also sell your current car right you have dealers all across the country bidding on it in an online auction simple and free anyway that's enough um car wire plugging let's go on with racing uh I'm nervous I'll be honest I am very very nervous it will be embarrassing if you don't win it will be really embarrassing let's find out luckily he didn't talk about the price oh yeah so how much is that car now how much did you pay for it and how many miles did it have on the clock when you bought it it was H it was £300,000 from the from new which is ridiculous and I I paid 140 so yeah probably about the same as yours maybe is no this is 40 pretty much yeah about the one what's that worth now uh this is currently I think probably worth about 140 it hasn't really gone up because it's leftand drive but I valued in my video 180 but we all like to inflate the price of our cars I value did at this and I've still got it cuz I couldn't sell it all right let's go with the race three two one oh no oh that's closer that fall oh his car crap a what that's embarrassing that is embarrassing that is embarrassing that's like honestly that's like really embarrassing I thought that was going to do that Bloody electric I'll get it as well but this is the future isn't it getting beaten by electric cars all these petrol expensive cars but that was particularly slow like really I took off and then I thought okay I'm a bit ahead of him I'm not that far ahead he's going to come pass me now but it just didn't this I kep on increasing the Gap yeah same I was hoping for that and we were as fast as it will go she's in sport plus I have got service B overdue by 53 days maybe that's it no does he have launch control no we had a bit of brake boost there but like yeah no we haven't so this is a family car it's got 850 horsepower say you say didn't seem like it what's it doing with its horsepower it's just a lie isn't it hasn't really they just say it as like I said looking and sounding good is what this car does not really meant for the drag strip I don't think it's got 8 well apparently 850 horsepower and 1,400 Newton met of torque there's something wrong with the engine I'm telling you it's not doing those numbers we need to get that have you had that on the dyno no is that no we'll have to we should take this to the dyno you'll be sorely disappointed well let's do it again best two out of three three two one like that he actually launched better than me but now I'm just pulling on him petrol ignite damn oh he's going to love this that's really embarrassing right now when I floor the accelerator there is a bit of a delay before this takes off yours shoots off cuz your brake boost in it after that this just comes past that has not got 850 horsepower there's absolutely no way in hell must be that service over I tell you this is all I've got it we I don't know what else to do can we cheat can we go Offroad can we do long long runs let's do a mile I know what you want to do you want to do something like 400 mile a quick stop a fuel station you might win then no that's it let's do the thing so then what exactly happened well the smart one it completed the standing quarter mile in 12.1 seconds the Mercedes took 12.4 seconds we're going to do a ring race from 30 mph first two the half mile wins three 2 one go now there is a problem with this car and I'm about to experience it now so got speed limit to 140 M hour he's going to start coming past me no he's not we need to do it again we need to do it again why do we need to do it again shut up shut up shut up what happened we need to do it again what did you do what what happened I overr second to third we need to do it again I was like spending most of my time just stuck at 11 140 M an hour and you're just like not even in it oh my God right I'm willing to do it again because I don't want your car to be that bad you know you said it was like worth 140 or whatever or 180 it's not is it right now you're not going to sell that for that much money shut up let me have another go shut up shut up shut up so here we go okay your level just pick whatever gear you want whatever you want you ready 3 2 1 go that's better come on come on come on come on petrol he's going to be in with a fighting chance cuz I'm going to hit my limiter in a second I've hit my limiter come on there he is there he is oh it's going to go it's going to in yes mate you did it you did it well done I hit my limiter and you came past I'm so glad ah you know if this didn't have a limiter because you can't actually go quicker than like 70 really on the motorway apart from if you're in Germany you wouldn't have won they had it this destricted you your car was just battered took a long time to catch you up then I was getting very worried and I did actually beat you to the quarter mile and so we taken out the whole like electric cars are brilliant at launching kind of thing let's really take it out now so we're going to do it from 50 m an hour you're obviously going to do me to the half mile but we'll do it anyway but it' be interesting to see if you can do me to the quarter mile right from 50 m hour can you doing me to the qu yes I have confidence in the petrol combustion engine with all your 850 horsepower not it's had hard life to be fair it's been around the field a few times jumped yeah it's had hard life yeah you do like to jump cars you're a bit nuts in that respect it's got a Lamborghini Hurrican Stato and he jumped it he put a video out where it looks like everything's fine with the car but there's another video out which reveals something different doesn't it yeah it's slightly it only tweaked it to be fair because um yeah that car definitely is never get going to get damaged in normal life cuz what we put it through was a hell of a day and it survived with just minor injuries so there's a link in the description if you want to see that video okay go check it out okay from 50 m hour then let's see if I can beat you to the quarter mile here we go 3 2 1 go you put your foot down a bit soon I saw you I saw you can you beat me to the quart M though yeah come on here he goes now oh I think you might have cheated a little bit there mark you put your foot down a little bit earlier yeah you did I saw your car squat before I go yes do properly I saw your car squat it was just getting ready that's all you going right and now I'm not sure whether you're going to beat me to the quarter mile and I'm going to be watching you on go right not on 32 1 3 2 1 go premature again no cheating 321 go so you couldn't cheat that time come on let's do to the half oh come on that half mile oh it's going to be close come on come on come on a yeah right you couldn't cheat that time could you so if I win I cheat and if you win you don't cheat is that how it works in this show sometimes I do no I don't mean to cheat but accidentally cheat I didn't cheat then I am at an advantage because I you know I call it in so it is easier for me but I don't actually press it before I say go you definitely did that last time while I may have an advantage you technically should have an advantage because you don't have a speed limiter at 114 m hour like I do and you got twice the power and more than twice the torque agreed but I've got to have like fire and spark plugs and Pistons going up all sorts of stuff I'm pretty sure other cars that weigh as much as that with the same amount of power and torque are quicker than that I think that's got some kind of like break on its axles or something what is going on have you got like gravel in the gearbox or something do you remember when we did this against the Urus as well it got annihilated it looks amazing it sounds amazing but it's really not a fast car but I can live with it cuz no one's buying it right you might win this oh actually looking at the size of your brakes you might not but let's do it anyway let's do a break test okay then brake test from 100 mph when we reach the line for an emergency stop car that stops in the shortest distance wins if you'd like to see a bras car actually do some decent performance click on the pop out banner up there I'll follow the link in the description below for a very very special video if not stay here for the brake test come on smarty pants stop oh you w I don't think either car actually excelled there did they it's like sort of trying to stop two London buses I was quite disappointed with this I thought I'd beat you based on the size of your brakes but you won well done better at braking this is so bad so bad now if you want to see what is one of my favorite electric cars performance for the money and you want to see what the offer is through car click on the pop out B up there for the link in the description below to check out the car and the offer all right anyway I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you think of Mark's Car in the comments below do you think it's really got 850 horsepower you want to watch some other videos click on those windows there and click on that box there to go to car W to see how these cars quarter mile times compare to every other car we've ever drag raced thanks for watching\n"