**The Great Quarter Mile Showdown**
In a heart-stopping display of speed and agility, two of the world's most powerful cars faced off in a battle for supremacy on the quarter mile. The Lamborghini Aventador, with its twin turbos and 740 horsepower, was looking to take down the Porsche SVJ, which boasted an impressive 444 horsepower from its naturally aspirated V8 engine.
As the green flag waved, both cars burst out of the starting gate like rockets, their engines screaming in protest as they accelerated towards the finish line. The Aventador quickly took the lead, its massive weight and torque advantage allowing it to pull away from the SVJ in the early stages of the run. However, just when it seemed like all was lost for the Porsche, its driver managed to find a gear and kick down, unleashing a surge of speed that closed the gap between the two cars.
The Aventador's driver, undeterred by this brief setback, continued to push the car hard, but ultimately found himself struggling to keep pace with the SVJ. As the cars approached the halfway point, it became clear that the Porsche had gained momentum, and was now starting to pull ahead of its rival.
**The Role of Gearbox**
As we watched the cars battle for supremacy on the quarter mile, one key factor stood out as a major deciding factor in the outcome: gearbox. The Aventador's driver opted to keep the car in fifth gear throughout most of the run, relying on its massive torque output to propel it forward. However, this strategy ultimately proved to be a mistake, as the engine began to lose power and momentum as it climbed higher up its rev range.
In contrast, the SVJ's driver was able to take advantage of the car's more aggressive gearbox by kicking down into lower gears at key moments, allowing the Porsche to maintain a steady pace and build on its early lead. This clever strategy proved to be the turning point in the race, as the Aventador began to struggle to keep up with the SVJ's relentless acceleration.
**The Finish**
In the end, it was the SVJ that emerged victorious, crossing the finish line just ahead of the Aventador. While the Lamborghini had started strong and maintained a high level of performance throughout the run, its inability to kick down into lower gears at key moments ultimately proved to be its downfall.
Despite this setback, the Aventador's driver was quick to praise his rival's car, acknowledging that it had been a "brutal" performance by the Porsche. Meanwhile, the SVJ's driver was over the moon with excitement, having managed to beat the Aventador in the quarter mile by a clear margin.
**The Aftermath**
As we watched the two drivers walk away from their intense battle on the quarter mile, one thing became clear: this had been a day of humiliation for the Aventador's driver. The Porsche SVJ had proven itself to be a formidable opponent, and its driver had emerged victorious after a heart-stopping display of speed and agility.
However, as we spoke with both drivers, it quickly became apparent that there was still plenty of love and respect between them. In fact, the Aventador's driver couldn't help but praise his rival's car, acknowledging that it had been "a bit old" by comparison to the Lamborghini.
**The Final Verdict**
As we looked back on this thrilling quarter mile showdown, one thing was clear: both cars had given it their all. The Porsche SVJ had proven itself to be a force to be reckoned with, while the Lamborghini Aventador had shown that even the most powerful car in the world can still be beaten.
In the end, it was a victory for the underdog, but one that left both drivers feeling exhilarated and energized after their intense battle on the quarter mile.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi how are you matt watson here from car wow so i'm sat in a lamborghini huracan sto and next to me is a lamborghini aventador svj and we are gonna have a drag race oh yeah this is gonna be awesome so it may seem a little bit unfair you know this sto it has a 5.2 liter natural aspirated v10 with just 640 horsepower and 565 newton meters of torque and it drives the rear wheels only via a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox still this is quite a light car it weighs in at just 1.4 tons it's expensive though 260 000 pounds now to tell you about the aventador let's chat to its driver it's mark mccann from mark mccann 64. the youtube channel you need to check it out anyway mark how are you i'm very well thank you these are your cars right both these lamborghinis are yours you've lent us though you just want to see which is quickest and drag race right i do but i think i know because it's wet so i can probably tell you already well do you know what you're betting it's the aventador but i won't be so sure you see the dual clutch automatic gearbox in this will give it a good launch that thing does launch hard but can be a bit trickier with its single clutch robotized manual see i know some facts about your cars how about the other facts can you tell me all the stats on your svj please so we have 770 brake horsepower 690 newton meter torque 6.5 liter v12 so the stats are looking good over this side just a quick query on that a little birdie told me that it's actually 720 newton meters of torque that's not what google said to me hmm let us know in the comments below right we're going to put ping comment which one's right i'm not entirely sure anyway so you've got four wheel drive and you think that's going to give you the benefit in the web well do you know what the runway is drying out if i can hook up i reckon i'm in with a chance anyhow how much was the aventador svj if you don't mind me asking so this one was uh 380. wow and how much does it weigh a bit more than yours you didn't look at that stat up did you i think you'll find it's 1 525 kilos to be precise though lamborghini does state dry weight so that doesn't include fluids which is a bit of a cheat really the italians like to give the best numbers possible they're a bit like the americans in that regard they like to overstate things now i want you to do me a favor you're enjoying these drug races you know these kind of cool cars in order to get them we rely on owners such as mark now mark's got a youtube channel mark mccann 64. you need to check it out right so if you click on the pop-up banner though for the link in the description you can check out his channel and please go there because i wanted to go on his latest videos thanks for lending matt your cars and if you follow him there as well that would be really good now if you can do that it does help us a lot because it encourages people like mark to come onto the channel and lend us their cars which then you can enjoy watching me race and i can also enjoy racing so let's work together on this let's go to his channel and say thanks for lending matt the cars anyway let's go with this race 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 now before we race there's one thing we need to do and that is the car wow customary sound check so let's rev up this 5.2 liter naturally aspirated v10 oh yeah let's give off the limiter oh yeah there we go so does this v10 sound better than a v12 mark do you want a river for your aventador can we have a bit more of that i didn't quite hear that at all go on anyway before we go with this race if you're thinking about selling your car you can now do it through car wow all you have to do is upload some photos of your car brief description and our dealers will bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it then they'll come to your house take your car away put the money in your account it's dead simple now if you want to do that you can click on the pop-out banner up there for the link in the description below alternatively at a later date just simply google wow me car wow and we will wow you oh actually there's one more thing to do let's warm up our tires mark do you want to go first i'm not sure how well you can donate in that because it's four wheel drive um but yeah don't kill your transmission yeah you'd basically just showered your car in stones and save yourself some tires yeah you're trying to poison me that was wicked i think we're warmed up don't think i can do as well as that but i don't know what gear to do let's go about all the revs should we try it first i don't know yeah mine's not as good as this even though rear wheel drive i actually meant to go back over there but i didn't quite make it anyway that will do now before we erase just want to say thanks to my mate connor who sorted out this race you can actually check out his instagram and all the cars he deals with i'll put a link to him in the description it's c connor 150 or connor on 50 instagram yeah check him out come on go straight yes yes did not expect that uh mark you had a bit of a nightmare with that i think didn't you we had a little bit of wheel spin to say the least cold tires that's why do you want to do it again yeah i think we do one more okay it's brave guys want to be um humiliated twice it's like the um baby beating up its bigger brother let's do it that's close come on go straight it's all over the place come on oh got him what happened there mark it was like kind of neck and neck then he like slowed down at the end that was past the finish wasn't it it wasn't he backed off too soon come on i'll give him another go come on oh i'm going sideways oh no it's got me well you got me that time mark you got me that time yes vj is still the daddy in it it's a good job because it's about half as much again isn't it yeah so then what exactly happened well the aventador won completing the standing quarter mile in 10.9 seconds or the hurricane took 11.1 seconds however on a warmer day the svj actually managed a 10.4 seconds so now we have a rolling grace from 50 miles an hour with the cars in their most relaxed setting if these cars have a relaxed setting the least aggressive setting anyway automatic for the gearbox so get to fifth i'm going to count it in three two one go oh neck and neck on the kick down i've got to jump on in dive to the half mile here's the mile there's a lot of speed there whoa whoa whoa whoa so this car kicked down really well even though it was in like the most relaxed setting and then it just flew this thing is rapid what happened to the svj it's like it didn't even kick down the gear i think it was having a siesta it was definitely in no rush did it kick down a gear no it was happy where it was might not have mattered if it had twin turbos on it would have had the talk to pull through it but it sounds like it just stayed in gear and just accelerated through its rev range this time we're going to take all the kick down and stuff out the equation so we're going to race in third gear from 50 miles an hour in the sportiest setting so i'm going to count it in three two one go pickup's amazing on this oh it's closed come on here comes the spj now can i beat him to the half mile oh no i've got it sorted come on here's the mile what's the difference so when you're telling it to change gears it does a lot better doesn't it i reckon i am more cleverer than the technicians at lamborghini yeah that gearbox is a little bit old it is a bit odd the gearbox in this is really good the deal clutcher but that's just got one clutch and yeah it's not the best but it's brutal when it changes isn't it when that was going all i was doing was laughing and smiling it was unbelievable i think he managed to beat me to the half mile but it was blooming close but at the mile yeah you had a clear lead on me now we can have a break test from 100 miles an hour when we reach the line full emergency stop which car will stop in the shortest distance i have literally nowhere to put this i'm having to hold it not ideal 100 miles an hour here we go surprise surprise a lot of car one a mark i thrashed you there by good few meters how do you feel about that i'm not ready to talk about it yeah this is getting embarrassing well this is the lighter car so it kind of makes a bit of sense doesn't it thank you for that i'll take that it's the heavyweight but there is one way where that car is definitely better than this one so it's this isn't it look so normal normal this this is just normal same with a bit of v12 actually i like a bit of scissoring that's it scissor away mark scissor keep scissoring now if you'd like a high performance car that is a lot more affordable than these lamborghinis click on the pop-out banner they'll follow the link in the description below because i found on cairo where there's a great offer on it a nice sporty coupe that you probably could afford i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know some other videos you liked in the comments below click on those windows there to watch more videos don't forget to follow mark's channel link's in the description and if you're thinking of selling your car you can do it through car wow click on that box there and add a little bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it and then i'll come to yours take it away put them on your account simple thanks for watchinghi how are you matt watson here from car wow so i'm sat in a lamborghini huracan sto and next to me is a lamborghini aventador svj and we are gonna have a drag race oh yeah this is gonna be awesome so it may seem a little bit unfair you know this sto it has a 5.2 liter natural aspirated v10 with just 640 horsepower and 565 newton meters of torque and it drives the rear wheels only via a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox still this is quite a light car it weighs in at just 1.4 tons it's expensive though 260 000 pounds now to tell you about the aventador let's chat to its driver it's mark mccann from mark mccann 64. the youtube channel you need to check it out anyway mark how are you i'm very well thank you these are your cars right both these lamborghinis are yours you've lent us though you just want to see which is quickest and drag race right i do but i think i know because it's wet so i can probably tell you already well do you know what you're betting it's the aventador but i won't be so sure you see the dual clutch automatic gearbox in this will give it a good launch that thing does launch hard but can be a bit trickier with its single clutch robotized manual see i know some facts about your cars how about the other facts can you tell me all the stats on your svj please so we have 770 brake horsepower 690 newton meter torque 6.5 liter v12 so the stats are looking good over this side just a quick query on that a little birdie told me that it's actually 720 newton meters of torque that's not what google said to me hmm let us know in the comments below right we're going to put ping comment which one's right i'm not entirely sure anyway so you've got four wheel drive and you think that's going to give you the benefit in the web well do you know what the runway is drying out if i can hook up i reckon i'm in with a chance anyhow how much was the aventador svj if you don't mind me asking so this one was uh 380. wow and how much does it weigh a bit more than yours you didn't look at that stat up did you i think you'll find it's 1 525 kilos to be precise though lamborghini does state dry weight so that doesn't include fluids which is a bit of a cheat really the italians like to give the best numbers possible they're a bit like the americans in that regard they like to overstate things now i want you to do me a favor you're enjoying these drug races you know these kind of cool cars in order to get them we rely on owners such as mark now mark's got a youtube channel mark mccann 64. you need to check it out right so if you click on the pop-up banner though for the link in the description you can check out his channel and please go there because i wanted to go on his latest videos thanks for lending matt your cars and if you follow him there as well that would be really good now if you can do that it does help us a lot because it encourages people like mark to come onto the channel and lend us their cars which then you can enjoy watching me race and i can also enjoy racing so let's work together on this let's go to his channel and say thanks for lending matt the cars anyway let's go with this race 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 now before we race there's one thing we need to do and that is the car wow customary sound check so let's rev up this 5.2 liter naturally aspirated v10 oh yeah let's give off the limiter oh yeah there we go so does this v10 sound better than a v12 mark do you want a river for your aventador can we have a bit more of that i didn't quite hear that at all go on anyway before we go with this race if you're thinking about selling your car you can now do it through car wow all you have to do is upload some photos of your car brief description and our dealers will bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it then they'll come to your house take your car away put the money in your account it's dead simple now if you want to do that you can click on the pop-out banner up there for the link in the description below alternatively at a later date just simply google wow me car wow and we will wow you oh actually there's one more thing to do let's warm up our tires mark do you want to go first i'm not sure how well you can donate in that because it's four wheel drive um but yeah don't kill your transmission yeah you'd basically just showered your car in stones and save yourself some tires yeah you're trying to poison me that was wicked i think we're warmed up don't think i can do as well as that but i don't know what gear to do let's go about all the revs should we try it first i don't know yeah mine's not as good as this even though rear wheel drive i actually meant to go back over there but i didn't quite make it anyway that will do now before we erase just want to say thanks to my mate connor who sorted out this race you can actually check out his instagram and all the cars he deals with i'll put a link to him in the description it's c connor 150 or connor on 50 instagram yeah check him out come on go straight yes yes did not expect that uh mark you had a bit of a nightmare with that i think didn't you we had a little bit of wheel spin to say the least cold tires that's why do you want to do it again yeah i think we do one more okay it's brave guys want to be um humiliated twice it's like the um baby beating up its bigger brother let's do it that's close come on go straight it's all over the place come on oh got him what happened there mark it was like kind of neck and neck then he like slowed down at the end that was past the finish wasn't it it wasn't he backed off too soon come on i'll give him another go come on oh i'm going sideways oh no it's got me well you got me that time mark you got me that time yes vj is still the daddy in it it's a good job because it's about half as much again isn't it yeah so then what exactly happened well the aventador won completing the standing quarter mile in 10.9 seconds or the hurricane took 11.1 seconds however on a warmer day the svj actually managed a 10.4 seconds so now we have a rolling grace from 50 miles an hour with the cars in their most relaxed setting if these cars have a relaxed setting the least aggressive setting anyway automatic for the gearbox so get to fifth i'm going to count it in three two one go oh neck and neck on the kick down i've got to jump on in dive to the half mile here's the mile there's a lot of speed there whoa whoa whoa whoa so this car kicked down really well even though it was in like the most relaxed setting and then it just flew this thing is rapid what happened to the svj it's like it didn't even kick down the gear i think it was having a siesta it was definitely in no rush did it kick down a gear no it was happy where it was might not have mattered if it had twin turbos on it would have had the talk to pull through it but it sounds like it just stayed in gear and just accelerated through its rev range this time we're going to take all the kick down and stuff out the equation so we're going to race in third gear from 50 miles an hour in the sportiest setting so i'm going to count it in three two one go pickup's amazing on this oh it's closed come on here comes the spj now can i beat him to the half mile oh no i've got it sorted come on here's the mile what's the difference so when you're telling it to change gears it does a lot better doesn't it i reckon i am more cleverer than the technicians at lamborghini yeah that gearbox is a little bit old it is a bit odd the gearbox in this is really good the deal clutcher but that's just got one clutch and yeah it's not the best but it's brutal when it changes isn't it when that was going all i was doing was laughing and smiling it was unbelievable i think he managed to beat me to the half mile but it was blooming close but at the mile yeah you had a clear lead on me now we can have a break test from 100 miles an hour when we reach the line full emergency stop which car will stop in the shortest distance i have literally nowhere to put this i'm having to hold it not ideal 100 miles an hour here we go surprise surprise a lot of car one a mark i thrashed you there by good few meters how do you feel about that i'm not ready to talk about it yeah this is getting embarrassing well this is the lighter car so it kind of makes a bit of sense doesn't it thank you for that i'll take that it's the heavyweight but there is one way where that car is definitely better than this one so it's this isn't it look so normal normal this this is just normal same with a bit of v12 actually i like a bit of scissoring that's it scissor away mark scissor keep scissoring now if you'd like a high performance car that is a lot more affordable than these lamborghinis click on the pop-out banner they'll follow the link in the description below because i found on cairo where there's a great offer on it a nice sporty coupe that you probably could afford i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like let me know some other videos you liked in the comments below click on those windows there to watch more videos don't forget to follow mark's channel link's in the description and if you're thinking of selling your car you can do it through car wow click on that box there and add a little bid on your car to make sure you get a great price for it and then i'll come to yours take it away put them on your account simple thanks for watching\n"