0-100mph in ONE SECOND!
 

http://www.bankspower.com/mercedes-pro-mod.cfm#

Wow, That's all I have to say about this.

until i see video proof, i call BS

same here. I just felt like sharing.

how is it possible to have the car only at 28lb? with the engine and all the roll cage, i think is a prank, cuz any person with a decent car knowledge would know that metal is heavier than plastic

it says the body weighs 28lbs, not the car and top fuel dragsters do 0-100 in about 0.8 and at about 320+ not 250 so its not impossible

They said " Zero to 100-mph in less than one second "
and said " Reaches speeds of 250-mph in a quarter mile "

Wonder what times dose it take to finish the quarter mile 3 sec ??? :?

some of the dragsters experience more g-force acclleration than this car appears to do as well
8g's at takeoff, and sustained 5-6 g's until the end of the quarter.

im not say ing 6 seconds is slow... its freekin fast! but, i dont think this car will beat 330 some mph in the 1/4 mile

thier estimated 250 mph sounds reasonable (and freekin' fast)

Thats nothing for a top fuelly. They usually do 0-100 under 1 second, and the quarter in 5 seconds. So no bs flag here.

why bs Topfuel runs to a 100 in 60 FEET!!! Its possible

Deffinately not BS. You have to realize 100mph for these cars is not much of a time waist. When the car launches it is releasing(in this car) 2500hp without wheel spin, and deffinately no turbo lag. It's very much possible.

not even A second, but LESS than... yeah right!

guys Topfuel Dragsters that run 1/4 miles in 4 sec. hit 100 in less then a sec. (before the 60 ft mark). and have a trap speed of around 300 mph. It is done

i've heard of cars (dragsters) doing around .5 second to sixty, I think its definately possible.

0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) in less than 0.5 seconds

http://home.wxs.nl/~monique_pels/MAIN.HTML

i think the myth is confirmed! :)

as evreyone said, it's a drag car, it's highley possible.

Who gives a shit? It's not street legal!

Anyone can take a light weight chasis and throw a ton of horsepower into it and make it go fast in the quarter.

Show me this car with a comfortable interior, a useable in the real world suspension, and all the things that it would need to be street legal and meet some safety standards, then I'd be impressed.

This is the fastest 1/4 mile in NHRA history 4.441 10/04/03 Anthony Schumacher - Reading, PA. fastest MPH is 333.41 05/22/04 Brandon Bernstein, Joliet, IL

what is it with Schumachers and going fast? is there some sort of galactic law that says if your last name is Schumacher you have to have an obsession with G-forces and high MPH runs?

cuz if so i' m changing my last name and making all my kids take up go-karting at age 3 :twisted: :wink: :lol:

Less than 1? i dont think so...
Special ground effects system usually found only on Formula 1 and Indy Cars
This = DRAG.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Ummm so you are saying the GODFATHER of every motorsport is for girls in pretty pink dresses. :| hmmmmm then what is everything else :?:

baaah... drag racing has no bends...

That was the first type of racing done. Who was faster. they didn't make a F1 course to start off. Straight line was the first and will be the last.

By the way that was a test not a race, qoute "Announced in June of 1895, it was not so much a race as it was a contest, an invitation to test the viability of a self-propelled vehicle"

incredïble, but with 2500 hp its possible

MOTOR SPORTS: Oldest drag strip marches on

Drag racing in the remote California town of Inyokern is still a desert happening...at the little track that could.

Bryce Martin, 4/2/2001
Some days it’s hard to get on track. The weekend of March 31-April 1, however, brought events back to normal for the folks at the graybeard-of-all-graybeards drag strip.
High winds bellowed and blew, rain blasted down, until, finally, the host Dust Devils Auto Club had to cancel its February drag racing calendar at the fabled track in Inyokern, Calif., after officials’ rush-through efforts failed. The next racing weekend, March 3-4, also went badly. The track and adjacent airport locale was borrowed on short notice by a film crew from Hollywood.
The Dust Devils forged the birth of one of the nation’s historic racetracks, remote and tiny, in September 1954, and did manage to launch its 2001 season opener January 20-21. The club participates in the Summit ET Racing Series and will hold a makeup points-race for that circuit June 2-3.
Situated about 100 miles east-northeast of the county seat in Bakersfield, the track sits along the Inyokern Airport and is surrounded by four mountain ranges in the Indian Wells Valley desert region. Inyokern has a population of around 1,000. Residents are mostly employed in nearby Ridgecrest or have civilian jobs at the bordering China Lake naval base.
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) has referred to the track as the “world’s oldest continuously operated drag strip.” A surprising 140 entries showed up for the very first races, the aftermath of which left the locals reeling when a contingent from Bakersfield ran roughshod over the Inyokern club’s inspired but outmatched bunch.
That was not about to discourage the club. After all, this was a small group that had to work, scrounge, and beg for equipment to even get started. One of the early promoters was Bernie Partridge, who later was to serve as a higher-up with the NHRA. Much of the encouragement came from area law officials who wanted an end to illegal racing on public roads. A track was located, thanks to a sweet abandonment by the U.S. Navy years before, and a move was made in 1953 to join the fledgling NHRA.
Two donated feed scales, needed to weigh cars, were buried in the sand, and the names of paid advertisers were written on car hubcaps. It wasn’t long before Dust Devils team members were claiming national records and becoming one of the most visible and best clubs in the country. They even allowed women drivers when the notion was mostly shunned elsewhere. Legendary driver Eddie Hill turned pro at the track in 1959.
After some members witnessed the use of a “Christmas tree” – a device, using a series of lights, to start cars on a ¼ mile drag run – at some 1963 races in Indianapolis, the contraption became the next on an items-to-have list. No track in California had one. The following year, the Dust Devils offered to stage a major race being held in southern California for an asking fee of – you guessed it – one Christmas tree, which they gladly received, and later loaned to tracks far and wide when it didn’t interfere with their own operations.
People who love the sport keep coming back, despite the distance for many, heat, sand, and its, well, its littleness. There’s an aura about the place, a special lie of the land, but in the final analysis, it’s the Dust Devils’ hospitality that apparently fosters such devotion to this particular strip of asphalt in the desert.
“The first time I went to Inyokern was for a car show and drag race back in 1962,” said Bruce Schwartz. “I went back in 1990 and it really had not changed at all. The people there are great and very accommodating to the racers. They treat everyone very well, so I kept coming back”
Schwartz liked it so well that he became the track announcer at Inyokern. He makes the three-hour drive regularly from his home in Torrance. The February weather problem, and Vin Diesel’s latest movie snafu in March, had kept him idle, a situation not experienced often by those associated with the long-running drag strip.
“February is typically a bad month for weather in this part of the desert. Periodically, there are winds that they call dust devils that come through. We just wait a few seconds and then resume racing.”

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NHRA start

Born on the backroads of America in the post World War II years, drag racing's roots were planted on dry lake beds like Muroc in California's Mojave Desert, where hot rodders had congregated since the early 1930s and speeds first topped 100 mph.
Wally Parks
One could even argue that drag racing was born in Goltry, Okla., in 1913, with the birth of Wally Parks, who nearly four decades later would found drag racing's most successful and influential sanctioning body.
Parks' family moved to California in the early 1920s, and Parks had an early interest in cars. He attended his first dry lake speed trials event in the 1930s, which whetted his fascination for performance. In 1937, Parks was one of the founders of the Road Runners Club.
Organized drag racing
In 1947, Parks, a military tank test-driver for General Motors who served in the army in the South Pacific in World War II, helped organize the Southern California Timing Association and later became its general manager.
The first SCTA "Speed Week," held at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in 1949, was the result of a diligent effort of Parks, then its executive secretary. It was here that racers first began running "against the clock" - actually, a stopwatch - coaxing their vehicles to accelerate quicker rather than simply to attain high top speeds.
The first drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, began running on an airfield in Southern California in 1950, and quickly gained popularity among the Muroc crowd because of its revolutionary computerized speed clocks.
When Parks became editor of the monthly enthusiast magazine Hot Rod, he had the forum and the power to form the National Hot Rod Association in 1951 to "create order from chaos" by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped legitimize the sport. He was its first president.
NHRA's first races
NHRA held its first official race in April 1953, on a slice of the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds parking lot in Pomona, Calif. Four decades later, that track has undergone a $6-million expansion and renovation and hosts the NHRA season-opening Winternationals and the season finale, the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals. The aggressive upgrading of facilities to 'stadium' quality, with fan amenities, VIP towers, and tall grandstands, was the passion of NHRA President Dallas Gardner, who took the reins in 1984 when Parks became Board Chairman. In 2000, Tom Compton became just the third president in NHRA history as Gardner ascended to the role of broad chairman and Parks became chairman of the NHRA Motorsports Museum.
In 1955, NHRA staged its first national event, called simply "the Nationals" in Great Bend, Kan. Six years later, as the Nationals hop-scotched around the country to showcase the growing sport before settling in Indianapolis in 1961, the Winternationals became NHRA's second event.
Incredible success
Now in its fifth decade, NHRA is the world's largest motorsports sanctioning body with 80,000 members, 140 member tracks, more than 35,000 licensed competitors, and more than 5,000 member-track events.
"No one could have conceived what has happened," Parks said of the NHRA's tremendous growth and success. "But we did have ambitions of its becoming a national sports entity. We weren't planning or marketing geniuses or anything like that. Things happened and we went with our instincts.
"We just had an idea and a strong desire to be self-sustaining ... to control our own destiny and be our own masters. We wanted to build the organization on its own merit. We saw a need -- that being an avenue for safe drag racing -- and with the help of a lot of good people and a little luck we seem to have had some success."
About the term "drag racing"
Although the tiretracks of its history are clear, the origin of the term "drag racing" is not. The theories are almost as many and varied as the machines that have populated its ranks for five decades. Explanations range from a simple challenge ("Drag your car out of the garage and race me!") to geographical locale (the "main drag" was a city's main street, often the only one wide enough to accommodate two vehicles), to the mechanical (to "drag" the gears meant to hold the transmission in gear longer than normal).
The first "dragsters" were little more than street cars with lightly warmed-over engines and bodies chopped down to reduce weight. Eventually, professional chassis builders constructed purpose-built cars, bending and welding together tubing and planting the engine in the traditional spot, just in front of the driver; the engines, and the fuels they burned, became more exotic, more powerful, and, naturally, more temperamental.
Like almost all racing cars, they have undergone tremendous evolution as racers upgraded, experimented, theorized, and tested their equipment.
Safety and innovation paved the way to rear-engined Top Fuel cars in the early 1970s, and once drag racing legend Don Garlits - himself a victim of the front-engined configuration when his transmission, which was nestled between his feet, exploded in 1970, severing half of his right foot - perfected the design, the sport never looked back. Today's Top Fuel dragsters are computer-designed wonders with sleek profiles and wind-tunnel-tested rear airfoils that exert 5,000 pounds of downforce on the rear tires with minimal aerodynamic drag.
As racers became smarter, the speed barriers fell: 260 mph toppled in 1984; 270 in 1986; 280 in 1987; 290 in 1989: and the magic 300 mph barrier fell before the wheels of former Funny Car champion Kenny Bernstein on March 20, 1992. Just seven years later, Tony Schumacher became the first to top 330 mph in February 1999, in Phoenix, Ariz.

Good enough :?:

beat the dates then^^

the 1895 is BS sorry, nothing there. The 1912 is possible

well you can't agrue that when is comes to a gruge match people drag not run around a track.

if you are agruing about how fast your car is you drag, be that from a red light or from 50 mph. Thats the way most races start

wow it weighs 28lbs damn i could pick it up with one hand!!!

if this is true, id like to be the passenger and feel the pull

Horse Racing was actualy the first form of racing lol i looked it up on yahoo


Does it say if the Merc is powered by a huge AMG motor, or a Ford/Chevy motor?

i strongly disagree!
first, motors are directly involved
second, the fastest wins in all cases... even when running for a specific time... its still based on rules, and not judging.
to me, something stops being a sport when judges are involved to decide your rating.
i will say, drag racing is fun, and likely more of a rush than curcuit driving... but i will also agree with you that going 'round bends is much more fun... particularly if you take them just right!

also, ronin...
have you ever accellerated remotely close to a 10 second 1/4 mile? i seriously doubt it... as if you were even a passenger, you would have more respect for drag racing...
'any idiot can go fast in a straight line'
that may be true for a stock auto with an automatic... but far from any realistic experience.
i think you ought to modify what you said to
'any idiot with an idiot type car can hit vmax in a straight line'
or something to that nature...
since you live in CT, next sumer, you ougth to goto Cedar Pointe in Sandusky, OH and ride the 'top thrill dragster' i think that you would find a new appreciation and respect for drag racing just riding a dumb roller coaster that accellerates you from 0-120+mph in 4 seconds... the feeling is fucking incredible, and just think... how much distance you are covering in that short period.

you are talking out your arse based on flawed opinon.
last time i checked, 8g's is something only fighter pilots, and drag racers do. ... not F1 drivers even in high speed turns, or braking.

if you continue to have this same opinion... i can do nothing more, and will say nothing more :wink:

I'd expect that to flip as soon as you plant your foot down

I grew up drag racing. My dad and me built an 8 second custom car based on an el camino chassis, with camero body work. He owns a 7 second drag bike, as well as a low 11 second trans am. My eclipse has run 12.23@ 127mph. I could say I have more experience in drag racing than another other form of motor sport.

That said, I think drag racing is totaly stupid. It can be fun, but It is not nearly as much fun as road coarse racing. Also, there are a million forms of racing, but I think drag racing is the only one I can think of where at the highest level it has no changed but .01% in the last 15 years. Seriously, once they got the aero dynamics of top fuel down, they have not really changed mutch for along ass time. Every car is the same, no race is interesting. Sounds familure? Oh yeah, Nascar is gay too.....

Drag racing your own car is fun, and I love mod'ing up cars for racing, but when I think about going out and having fun in my car, I have dreams off gravel induced drifts, slopped and curvy shipping alles and abandoned parking lots with islands for dodging. I never dream of just accelerating. You can do that anywhere, even on a raod coarse might I add...

its a dragster they have acceleration like nothing else can get to 200 in about 4 seconds so that is very very believable :)

I find it a bit strange how there are members on here who come on post pics of dragsters and then go wow its so fast i cant believe it

THEY WERE MADE TO GO FAST LIKE THAT

well, still drag racing is the basis for racing. in road racing you drag to the first corner. and you can suck at driving and just pull like a mad man on the straight and win. Its been done many a times.

no you cant, If you suck at driving youll get anniahlated on a track, you cant just go fast down straights, everyone else is going just as fast down the straights and then alot faster round the corners too, + if you try and outbrake them you go off and if your not on the racing line youll have to sloow waaaaaaaaaay down at orners and ..well basically if you suck you wouldnt even be in racing 0X