Top Gear drag race

[wildbore]

Over on the Audi forum, an RS6 owner kindly posted a link to this. Haven't seen it mentioned here yet, so:

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/top-gea ... -amg-e63-s

[bam_bam]

11.4 quarter - that's fast! I'm guessing the track had a tailwind or was downhill.

This is tuned and it did 11.4.

[MikeFish]

I noticed a lot of the comments were about the Tesla. I found a video yesterday of a Tesla up against an rs7 with a rolling start. Apparently the Tesla walks a standing start drag but if it is a rolling start then its a different story.

[Leo-RS]

Bam_Bam, that must be a standard RS6? True 700hp cars will be in the 130mph regions over the 1/4, not low 120's. (That's what standard cars do it in)

Here is a tuned RS6 at the same venue on the same day...



The 11.4 time is completely normal for a standard car. Here's a standard RS6 with an 11.36 ... http://www.crailraceway.co.uk/showdrag. ... 2015-10-25

[bam_bam]

Great to know. The video says it's modified.

[zzz]

Looks like the rev limiter was removed in that top gear one. No red zone on the rev counter?

[Leo-RS]

Looks like the rev limiter was removed in that top gear one. No red zone on the rev counter?

I think that's just the angle that the shot was taken, the red lights just out of shot.

[Leo-RS]

Great to know. The video says it's modified.

Yeah I spotted in the comments section that he said his best time was an 11.1 so it must be modified as that's too quick for a standard car. Perhaps just a conservative tune, the owner wasn't launching it properly or it was being run on 95 octane and timing and boost was being pulled out of it. Either way, the 10.5 vid is what they are capable of when they are tuned properly

[W8PMC]

Great to know. The video says it's modified.

Yeah I spotted in the comments section that he said his best time was an 11.1 so it must be modified as that's too quick for a standard car. Perhaps just a conservative tune, the owner wasn't launching it properly or it was being run on 95 octane and timing and boost was being pulled out of it. Either way, the 10.5 vid is what they are capable of when they are tuned properly

Like for like with the Tuned M5's, although those damn Yanks are now running in the 9's with their silly power F10's