Do you know anything about this video? Maybe you need to learn a bit about it. This video was addressed originally by the hellcat driver a few days ago. It has since turned viral and nobody seems to care about the antics surrounding this video. It was a Tesla PR stunt in a nutshell. Hellcat red lit so he purposely decided to just do a burnout. Simple as that
Well considering I've seen people drive this bad at the strip with 392 cars.... In fact a Green With Envy 392
Spun around and planted into the wall at PRP two years ago. That's why I did NOT doubt that someone could
drive that bad. Glad to hear the driver just figured after the red light to just John Force it
It was also his first time racing the car so it's not to say he would have won anyways. But he went to the track and ended up getting called out by the Tesla camp with all of 700 highway miles on his car and not much practice launching it. I say he was a stand up guy to go for it whether it worked out for him or not.
I take a different view. Never run a match race, even if its just for bragging rights, unless you are ready. Never let an opponent goad you into a match if you or your car aren't ready. No one will remember you weren't ready, just that you got beat. Winning is winning---and losing is losing. Deliberately smoking the tires thru the 1/8th mile is just playing into your opponent's hands.
Glad to see they are getting DRs and planning to work hard on the driver mod before the rematch.
The source is the driver, he told everyone at the event that if he lost traction he'd just burnout as far as he could for a show... Apparently they are going to do it again after he gets some practice in
I read the comments the hellcat driver posted too.
Also the yahoos on yahoo posted an article about this without knowing all the facts involved. Just a bad pr for the hellcat. And they called it a charger. Sad.
Somehow, I don't even think it was his "choice" to do a burnout or not, if he lost traction. Once you lose traction in that short a gear, with that much torque coming on line, at x rpm, it's anybody's guess where you should put the throttle where the tires would actually successfully hook-up, again. That's way too many variables shifting around at once.
Probably just best off triggering an upshift, and hoping you have better luck with the throttle in a higher gear.
A look at the bight side.
The guy at least owns a Hellcat to do a burnout with win or lose.
He chose to line up not the Telsa owner.
Better than a BS Spring delivery Promise and a Von#.
I've seen that before, but I come to the same conclusion...maybe there shouldn't be any shame in using that? Not even real everyday v8's sound that good, but there is no denying that you can't help but to get a big grin on your face if that was pumped into your cabin. It works all too good for its own good! In all things of life, what else is there where you can "cheat the system" that effectively (get such an endorphin response from audio nirvana) while not being offensively loud to everybody for a 3 blocks radius?
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