World’s Quickest Car: Corvette ZR1X vs Sapphire vs “Fast” Cars — Cammisa Ultimate Drag Race Replay

Globe First ZR1X Drag Race! We race the 1250-hp Corvette ZR1X versus the reigning quickest vehicle on the planet, the Lucid Air Sapphire– against 2 cars the majority of people would call “quick”: the new BMW M2 CS and Volkswagen Golf R.

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The C8 Corvette ZR1X has all-wheel drive, mid-engined traction, and a twin-turbo, flat-plane-crank V8– the full recipe to unseat the existing champ: the 1234-hp, electric, Lucid Air Sapphire.

We attempted to dethrone the Sapphire making use of a 1500-hp Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport, and it really did not function. We attempted once more using a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170– and the 5-passenger EV high-end sedan left the Supercharged Hemi for dead.

This time, it might be different.

Our examination Lucid is geared up with optional Pirelli PZero Trofeo RS tires, which will offer it a launch advantage about our last tests. And the Corvette is geared up with the ZTK track package. Its huge wing includes wind resistant drag, which will certainly slow it down– but at the expenditure of downforce, which will likely help it place its power to the ground. Primarily, ZTK consists of extra-grippy Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires– and so this is, GM says, the quickest version of the C8 Corvette on a neglected surface.

GM declared a 8.675-second 1/4- mile efficiency on VHT with the base ZR1X and an 8.95-second run for the ZR1X ZTK on asphalt. Let’s see if our runway examination can recreate that efficiency.
The last Lucid Air Sapphire we tested on a VHT-prepped drag strip handled a 9.002-second run, which suggests the Corvette * could * be quicker on VHT. It just did a 9.1-second run on regular sidewalk: will the grippy Pirellis aid it beat the Corvette?

We’ll learn.

And for perspective on the distinction between a “fast auto” and the world’s fastest-accelerating cars and trucks, we’ve brought along the most popular hot-hatch you can acquire in America, the 328-hp, all-wheel drive Mk8.5 VW Golf R. And the quickest and most powerful little BMW, the 523-hp 2026 M2 CS.

We’ll give both “rapid automobiles” a large advantage: the Volkswagen will have a football area’s head beginning, and the M2 will start at the exact same time as the 1200+ horse power vehicles, with one less football field to cover.

As constantly, Cammisa’s Ultimate Drag Race Replay utilizes instrumented screening equipment and scientific techniques to reveal you the globe’s most perfect drag race– on regular asphalt, not a specially prepped, VHT-sprayed drag strip.

This suggests you get a scientific, real-world outcome without those various other individuals’ “oops, I messed up the launch, so currently we’ll never ever recognize which is absolutely much faster.” And spoiler alert: this race is so close, even our GPS examination equipment could not tell us which vehicle won.

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Much more video clips to enjoy:.
SYMBOLS ZR1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWSpZHF998.
LAP BATTLE ZR1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEKjBxlBQk4.

Sapphire vs Bugatti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyDpQpcPpuc.
Sapphire vs Demon 170: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE20h6v0fSQ.

Corvette Z06 vs GT3 vs Audi R8 vs Ducati: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXdwnA7RyZ0.
Corvette E-Ray vs Ferrari V8 vs Lamborghini Huracan Evo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlOBwaOTvI.

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