The Drag Race: A High-Speed Showdown at Goodwood

It was an exciting day at Goodwood as two very different cars took to the track for a high-speed drag race. On one side, we had the sleek and powerful Formula One car from Red Bull Racing, while on the other side, we had the iconic McMurtry car driven by Alex, and later joined by Liam. The objective was simple: which car could reach the finish line first?

The Starting Lineup

As the cars lined up at the starting line, excitement was palpable. Alex in the McMurtry got off to a rocky start, spinning his wheels before finding traction. The Formula One car, driven by Liam, didn't fare much better, struggling to get out of second gear. However, as soon as Liam shifted into higher gears, the car surged forward, leaving Alex and Liam in its wake.

A 1-1 Tie After Two Races

After a thrilling first two races, it was anyone's game. The McMurtry and Formula One cars were neck and neck, with the former taking an early lead but then falling behind as Liam overtook him. Alex managed to get back into contention, but ultimately came up just short. With the scores tied 1-1, all that remained was a deciding third race to determine the winner.

The Deciding Race

For the final showdown, the McMurtry and Formula One cars lined up at the starting line once more. The crowd held its collective breath as Liam roared off the line, with Alex hot on his heels. However, as they approached 100 miles per hour, Liam expertly deployed a break test, bringing the car to a sudden stop. Alex followed suit, but it was clear that the Formula One car had gained an advantage in terms of speed.

Break Test: The Final Showdown

The break test proved to be a decisive factor, as Liam's car came to a halt in record time. The crowd erupted into cheers as Liam celebrated his victory, while Alex and Alex looked on in admiration. It was clear that the Formula One car had outperformed expectations, with its advanced technology allowing it to reach incredible speeds.

The Results

In the end, it was Liam's McMurtry who emerged victorious, crossing the finish line first. The car's impressive performance was a testament to the skills of its driver and the ingenuity of its design team. Alex's McMurtry put up a good fight, but ultimately came up short.

Post-Race Analysis

As we looked back on the drag race, it became clear that several factors had contributed to Liam's victory. The McMurtry's advanced technology allowed it to reach incredible speeds, while the Formula One car's sleek design enabled it to brake effectively. However, as Alex noted during a post-race interview, there was one aspect of the McMurtry's design that could be improved upon: its top speed.

A Potential Upgrade

Alex mused about the possibility of upgrading the McMurtry with a more powerful engine, potentially reaching speeds over 190 miles per hour. While this idea is purely speculative at present, it raises an intriguing question about the potential capabilities of the iconic car.

Conclusion

The drag race at Goodwood was an exhilarating event that showcased the incredible performance of two very different cars. From the sleek and powerful Formula One car to the iconic McMurtry, each vehicle demonstrated its unique strengths and weaknesses. As we look ahead to future racing events, it will be exciting to see how these cars continue to evolve and improve their performance on the track.

Special Thanks

The drag race was made possible by the generous support of Red Bull Racing and Red Bull, as well as McMurtry and Rimac. These companies brought together two incredible vehicles for a thrilling competition that pushed both drivers to their limits.

A Message from the Host

As I looked out at the crowd after the event, it became clear that this drag race had captured the hearts of everyone involved. To our loyal viewers who tuned in live, we hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did. Don't forget to like and subscribe for more thrilling racing content, including behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive interviews with the drivers and teams.

For those interested in seeing how the McMurtry compares to other cars on the quarter mile, be sure to check out our upcoming video series that will feature a range of high-performance vehicles competing head-to-head. With its advanced technology and impressive performance, the Formula One car is set to take center stage once again.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat will win in a drag race between a rimmer Navaira a McMurtry spearing and a Red Bull Formula One car well we're gonna find out because I'm gonna race them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching car wow bye sell car wow now I've got to say this is the most exciting drag race I have ever done the rimac Nevada is a car that I said a car wow quarter mile World recording I drove a prototype here I'm in a production car now it's got some racing seats and some extra ancillaries in it because rimac actually used it for testing but underneath it's exactly what customers get we've got four electric motors they put out a combined 1914 horsepower and 2 360 newton meters of torque it's insane now it does have a 120 kilowatt hour battery pack and that means it's quite heavy the Nevada tips of scales are 2.3 tons it's also quite expensive you're talking around 2 million pounds next to me is the Mercury spelling which is the car that I actually did an even quicker quarter mile time in so let's go over and talk to their test driver Alex Summers how are you very well thank you Matt tell me about your car the performance stats I have two electric motors driving the rear wheels only this produces a thousand horsepower and weighs just under a thousand kilos and we have a 60 kilowatt hour battery so quite a long range for this car and we have 2 000 kilos of downforce from a fan system from zero all the way up to top speed so that's the thing I've got four wheel drive your rear wheel drive but you've got this fan that sucks it to the ground you have amazing traction off the line don't you yeah we do depending on the road surface we can have really really high g-lap from zero so how much is that car to buy the salable version will be 820 000 plus fat so a million pounds in the UK or thereabouts finally then let's go to the driver of the Red Bull Formula One car hello I'm very well Matt how are you yeah I'm good thanks thank you ever so much for bringing that Formula One car along so your red balls Reserve driver aren't you uh yes that is correct so you should be pretty good at launching a Formula One car well you say that but I'm Reserve driver I haven't actually competed in a Race So I've never actually launched a Formula One car what so this is going to be your first time yeah yeah that is correct that's nuts so Liam tell me about your car give me the stats so this is the uh rb8 so 2012 Sebastian vettel's World Championship car it's his 800 horsepower a 2.4 liter V8 I have seven gears it weighs about 700 kilos with driver and obviously rear wheel drive so quite tricky off the line so obviously yokai's rear wheel drive like the Mercury but unlike that your car only produces downforce when you're moving and so for launching you have no downforce really do you for this kind of race I have the opposite of what I need I basically have no downforce when launching and then when we're going quickly I have downforce lighting me down whereas Alex in the Mercury does your downforce slow you down or not at all the only thing that would slow us down would be the small rear wing that we use as a tune but the fan won't at all know oh man it seems like the Best of Both Worlds who do you think is going to win Liam is it going to be you I am not feeling overly confident for this race let's just say that do you know what though I'm feeling quite confident I'm sure Alex is in the Mercury but to find out we're gonna have to get into it we're gonna have to race now before we do if you're thinking about selling your car you can do through car wow all you have to do is upload some photos give a brief description then dealers all across the country will bid on your car pick the highest offer they'll come to your house take the car away put the money into your account it's simple now if you'd like to do that now just click on the pop-out banner up there for the link in the description below alternatively at a later date just simply Google help me car wow and we will help you sell your car anyway I'm gonna buckle up now and we're going to get on with this race because I really want to know what I'll win between these three cars because I don't think it's clear-cut oh yeah yeah this is embarrassing I think I can probably do this yes let's hope I'm better at launching than I am strapping myself in before we race we needed the customer Carwash sound check so I'm going to get Liam to rev up the Formula One car can you rev up your car uh I would like to put earplugs in first but yes I think if we can if we're allowed to do that we can do that if we have electric cars that obviously don't make a noise we have to make noises ourselves in this Rim act I'm gonna have to make the noise myself so I'm going to do some kind of engine noise and this is my impression of a Formula One car thank you so that was my impression of a Formula One car so I know that you can actually rev the fan on your car can't you yes yes I can do it Alex make your electric car rev which is weird it's like a jet plane about to take off not ready enough for you that is so impressive but is it as impressive over to you Liam okay okay quite clearly that's the first Victory to you Liam it's not quite as cool as that Formula One car but what really matters is the racing so let's do it let's race now before we race one last thing if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribed to this channel hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload and we've got some crazier stuff even craziness coming soon oh my heart is pounding come on come on come on it's so close though come on I'm going the game on the line yes I think he might have hit his limiter and that's when I came past him I do not know oh um Liam I'm gonna come to you first mate how was it for you yeah you weren't even in it to tell you the truth Alex it was so close between us I got a better launch than you then you came past me then I think you must have hit your limiter and I came past you but I don't know if I did that before the quarter mile I think you might have edged me just before the finish I got quite a lot of wheel spin on these lips well do you know what I always say in this game best two out of three do you want another go yeah let's go for it mate I just want to check with the stewards please tell me I did not jump the start yes whatever happens next a 1-1 what's gonna happen now is that Alex in the Mercury is going to spin up his wheels before he starts to get some temperature in his tires to reduce his wheel spin he did not have the best of launches so Alex you've warmed up your tires this time things could be different couldn't they you slept Tire yes good luck Leah mate good luck see if you can get a better start and get a little bit closer to us thank you thanks mate thanks for the for the for the confidence boost appreciate it here we go again come on oh no he had me my start wasn't going to go wheel spin oh no oh my God Alex I got a bit of wheel spin your launch is better than mine you totally smashed me there yeah it hooked up beautifully that time thank you it's one each we need to do a third race to decide who wins yeah Kino's mustard for that I'm just going to go to you quickly Liam how was that launch for you all right don't worry Liam we're gonna have another race see how we get on this is it the decider one each I've got to win this come on foreign all right oh Alex oh your start wasn't quite so good that time mate which meant I just beat you I do need to check one thing first though stewards can you just double check that my start was good Alex that's it I got confirmation my start was fine best two out of three the rim act wins the drag race yeah fair enough water mate well done that was very mate that was for you so then what exactly happened well the rim across the line first just ahead of the McMurtry though both cars did the standing quarter mile in 8.4 seconds the Formula One car took 9.5 seconds just so you know 8.4 seconds is the best time I've ever recorded in a car while drag race though the quickest quarter mile I've ever done was a 7.9 seconds in the McMurtry though that was on an empty Silverstone racing circuit to see that video click on the pop-out Banner or follow the link in the description okay now we're gonna have a rolling race over the half mile from 50 miles an hour I'm going to call it in come on Liam and Alex get level with me okay here we go three two one go Formula One goals on it no there we go oh wow wow foreign that was a lot of speed very quickly Alex I'm going to go to you first you were gaining on me at first but then you hit your speed limiter didn't you yeah we've still got the Goodwood gearbox so we stop at 150 I was a little bit behind you then I took off super quick but I looked across and I saw Liam Liam you were so close to me for a while one thing I will say Alex is I know that it will be possible to get a version of the McMurtry spearing with a 190 mile an hour top speed that's correct isn't it yeah this one okay so that'd be interesting should be as quick off the line but have a high top speed oh we're gonna have to get it back for that now we're gonna have a break test from 100 miles an hour when we reach the line the car that stops in the shortest distance wins here comes the line everybody get ready freaking out that yeah that that was that first of all Liam I'm gonna go to you you won you won me I break so hard that I locked all four and uh honestly nearly lost the car to be honest but she stops on a dime I'll go get you as well Alex because really air to a Formula One car uncomfortable I've never actually done a full stop like that but yeah Mighty impressive to be fair this car is quite a bit heavier than those cars which does affect things but you know it's still stopped in a good distance for a normal Road car that you can live with every day thank you very much Alex you have been a great boy thank you very much Liam this has been so much fun and of course huge thanks to Red Bull Racing and Red Bull thank you to McMurtry and thank you very much to rimac those seeing as I'm now an honorary Croatian I should say it properly rematch yasam Crown is it Croatian hopefully you'll know what that means anyway I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you'd like to see me drag race next in the comments below report a pin comment get in the boat click on those windows there for some more videos and on that box there to go to car wow to see how these cards quarter mile times compare to everything else we've ever raced thanks for watchingwhat will win in a drag race between a rimmer Navaira a McMurtry spearing and a Red Bull Formula One car well we're gonna find out because I'm gonna race them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching car wow bye sell car wow now I've got to say this is the most exciting drag race I have ever done the rimac Nevada is a car that I said a car wow quarter mile World recording I drove a prototype here I'm in a production car now it's got some racing seats and some extra ancillaries in it because rimac actually used it for testing but underneath it's exactly what customers get we've got four electric motors they put out a combined 1914 horsepower and 2 360 newton meters of torque it's insane now it does have a 120 kilowatt hour battery pack and that means it's quite heavy the Nevada tips of scales are 2.3 tons it's also quite expensive you're talking around 2 million pounds next to me is the Mercury spelling which is the car that I actually did an even quicker quarter mile time in so let's go over and talk to their test driver Alex Summers how are you very well thank you Matt tell me about your car the performance stats I have two electric motors driving the rear wheels only this produces a thousand horsepower and weighs just under a thousand kilos and we have a 60 kilowatt hour battery so quite a long range for this car and we have 2 000 kilos of downforce from a fan system from zero all the way up to top speed so that's the thing I've got four wheel drive your rear wheel drive but you've got this fan that sucks it to the ground you have amazing traction off the line don't you yeah we do depending on the road surface we can have really really high g-lap from zero so how much is that car to buy the salable version will be 820 000 plus fat so a million pounds in the UK or thereabouts finally then let's go to the driver of the Red Bull Formula One car hello I'm very well Matt how are you yeah I'm good thanks thank you ever so much for bringing that Formula One car along so your red balls Reserve driver aren't you uh yes that is correct so you should be pretty good at launching a Formula One car well you say that but I'm Reserve driver I haven't actually competed in a Race So I've never actually launched a Formula One car what so this is going to be your first time yeah yeah that is correct that's nuts so Liam tell me about your car give me the stats so this is the uh rb8 so 2012 Sebastian vettel's World Championship car it's his 800 horsepower a 2.4 liter V8 I have seven gears it weighs about 700 kilos with driver and obviously rear wheel drive so quite tricky off the line so obviously yokai's rear wheel drive like the Mercury but unlike that your car only produces downforce when you're moving and so for launching you have no downforce really do you for this kind of race I have the opposite of what I need I basically have no downforce when launching and then when we're going quickly I have downforce lighting me down whereas Alex in the Mercury does your downforce slow you down or not at all the only thing that would slow us down would be the small rear wing that we use as a tune but the fan won't at all know oh man it seems like the Best of Both Worlds who do you think is going to win Liam is it going to be you I am not feeling overly confident for this race let's just say that do you know what though I'm feeling quite confident I'm sure Alex is in the Mercury but to find out we're gonna have to get into it we're gonna have to race now before we do if you're thinking about selling your car you can do through car wow all you have to do is upload some photos give a brief description then dealers all across the country will bid on your car pick the highest offer they'll come to your house take the car away put the money into your account it's simple now if you'd like to do that now just click on the pop-out banner up there for the link in the description below alternatively at a later date just simply Google help me car wow and we will help you sell your car anyway I'm gonna buckle up now and we're going to get on with this race because I really want to know what I'll win between these three cars because I don't think it's clear-cut oh yeah yeah this is embarrassing I think I can probably do this yes let's hope I'm better at launching than I am strapping myself in before we race we needed the customer Carwash sound check so I'm going to get Liam to rev up the Formula One car can you rev up your car uh I would like to put earplugs in first but yes I think if we can if we're allowed to do that we can do that if we have electric cars that obviously don't make a noise we have to make noises ourselves in this Rim act I'm gonna have to make the noise myself so I'm going to do some kind of engine noise and this is my impression of a Formula One car thank you so that was my impression of a Formula One car so I know that you can actually rev the fan on your car can't you yes yes I can do it Alex make your electric car rev which is weird it's like a jet plane about to take off not ready enough for you that is so impressive but is it as impressive over to you Liam okay okay quite clearly that's the first Victory to you Liam it's not quite as cool as that Formula One car but what really matters is the racing so let's do it let's race now before we race one last thing if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribed to this channel hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload and we've got some crazier stuff even craziness coming soon oh my heart is pounding come on come on come on it's so close though come on I'm going the game on the line yes I think he might have hit his limiter and that's when I came past him I do not know oh um Liam I'm gonna come to you first mate how was it for you yeah you weren't even in it to tell you the truth Alex it was so close between us I got a better launch than you then you came past me then I think you must have hit your limiter and I came past you but I don't know if I did that before the quarter mile I think you might have edged me just before the finish I got quite a lot of wheel spin on these lips well do you know what I always say in this game best two out of three do you want another go yeah let's go for it mate I just want to check with the stewards please tell me I did not jump the start yes whatever happens next a 1-1 what's gonna happen now is that Alex in the Mercury is going to spin up his wheels before he starts to get some temperature in his tires to reduce his wheel spin he did not have the best of launches so Alex you've warmed up your tires this time things could be different couldn't they you slept Tire yes good luck Leah mate good luck see if you can get a better start and get a little bit closer to us thank you thanks mate thanks for the for the for the confidence boost appreciate it here we go again come on oh no he had me my start wasn't going to go wheel spin oh no oh my God Alex I got a bit of wheel spin your launch is better than mine you totally smashed me there yeah it hooked up beautifully that time thank you it's one each we need to do a third race to decide who wins yeah Kino's mustard for that I'm just going to go to you quickly Liam how was that launch for you all right don't worry Liam we're gonna have another race see how we get on this is it the decider one each I've got to win this come on foreign all right oh Alex oh your start wasn't quite so good that time mate which meant I just beat you I do need to check one thing first though stewards can you just double check that my start was good Alex that's it I got confirmation my start was fine best two out of three the rim act wins the drag race yeah fair enough water mate well done that was very mate that was for you so then what exactly happened well the rim across the line first just ahead of the McMurtry though both cars did the standing quarter mile in 8.4 seconds the Formula One car took 9.5 seconds just so you know 8.4 seconds is the best time I've ever recorded in a car while drag race though the quickest quarter mile I've ever done was a 7.9 seconds in the McMurtry though that was on an empty Silverstone racing circuit to see that video click on the pop-out Banner or follow the link in the description okay now we're gonna have a rolling race over the half mile from 50 miles an hour I'm going to call it in come on Liam and Alex get level with me okay here we go three two one go Formula One goals on it no there we go oh wow wow foreign that was a lot of speed very quickly Alex I'm going to go to you first you were gaining on me at first but then you hit your speed limiter didn't you yeah we've still got the Goodwood gearbox so we stop at 150 I was a little bit behind you then I took off super quick but I looked across and I saw Liam Liam you were so close to me for a while one thing I will say Alex is I know that it will be possible to get a version of the McMurtry spearing with a 190 mile an hour top speed that's correct isn't it yeah this one okay so that'd be interesting should be as quick off the line but have a high top speed oh we're gonna have to get it back for that now we're gonna have a break test from 100 miles an hour when we reach the line the car that stops in the shortest distance wins here comes the line everybody get ready freaking out that yeah that that was that first of all Liam I'm gonna go to you you won you won me I break so hard that I locked all four and uh honestly nearly lost the car to be honest but she stops on a dime I'll go get you as well Alex because really air to a Formula One car uncomfortable I've never actually done a full stop like that but yeah Mighty impressive to be fair this car is quite a bit heavier than those cars which does affect things but you know it's still stopped in a good distance for a normal Road car that you can live with every day thank you very much Alex you have been a great boy thank you very much Liam this has been so much fun and of course huge thanks to Red Bull Racing and Red Bull thank you to McMurtry and thank you very much to rimac those seeing as I'm now an honorary Croatian I should say it properly rematch yasam Crown is it Croatian hopefully you'll know what that means anyway I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know what you'd like to see me drag race next in the comments below report a pin comment get in the boat click on those windows there for some more videos and on that box there to go to car wow to see how these cards quarter mile times compare to everything else we've ever raced thanks for watching\n"