00:00G'day there, I'm Paul. This is my nervous face, because right next to me is a McLaren
00:04centre. The body is literally made out of carbon fibre. It is ridiculous. I'm sitting
00:10in a Ferrari 812 Competizione. I mean, these are two outrageous cars, and we're about to
00:14do a drag race. Elbos, run us through what is in that first.
00:17Well, I mean, this car really doesn't need an introduction, but it's got a 4-litre twin
00:21turbo V8 with 588 kilowatts and 800 newton metres of torque. It'll do 2.8 to 100. It
00:27is rear-wheel drive, though, like your car, so I reckon this is going to be really interesting.
00:30Yeah, this is crazy. It has been bucketing down here. It's finally dry-ish. It's still wet
00:36in parts, which is why this is my nervous face, because these aren't our cars. These belong
00:40to our mate Lawrence, who has an incredible car collection, so thank you to him for allowing
00:44us to borrow these. This is a naturally aspirated V12, and rear-wheel drive, almost the same amount
00:50of power that you have, but you have more torque with your forced induction. This is naturally
00:55aspirated, so both of us have launch control, and both of us are trying not to hit each
01:00other as we go down here. This is a quarter mile, so we're going to do the quarter mile
01:04run as the sun comes through, just to blind us a little bit. Then we're going to do a rolling
01:08race, and finally at the end, I'm going to be quiet so you can have a listen to what they
01:12sound like across the quarter mile, and you can also see some of the numbers they log as
01:16well, but I reckon we need to get started. Launching, up you go. Three, two, one, go.
01:23Oh, good start for both of us. Come on baby. There is no traction at all.
01:42Oh my god, oh my god. Catching him, I'm catching him. Yes, yes, yes. Oh my god. I don't know
02:11what happened at the end there, but I was reeling you in like there is no tomorrow.
02:17Yes, there was a bit of loss of traction there from third to fourth, which probably gave you
02:22a bit of a chance, but your takeoff wasn't very good, was it? No, I bogged down off the line
02:26with launch control, so the tyres are still a little bit cold, so I'm going to warm up
02:29just a touch now, and I'm going to meet you back at the start line, because I am confident
02:33I can send you back to Great Britain, my friend. Okie dokie. Megan, I think we are ready
02:39for our countdown. Alright, here we go, take two. Launching on go. Three, two, one, go.
02:46Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
02:48No, no, no, no, come on. Come on. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That's it, that's it. Alright, here we
03:02go baby. Yes. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm reeling him in. Come on. Yes, yes, go, go, go, go, go.
03:09Yes, yes, yes, go, go, go, go, go. Yes, yes. Oh my God. That was so close. I don't actually
03:22know if I won, I have no idea. I actually got a reasonable launch that time. How did your
03:29launch go? Well, I did it alright, but you definitely had a better launch than me, that's
03:35for sure. Okay, let's just go to our adjudicator Sean over here. I just want to see what the verdict
03:41is. Don't you dare, dare tell me that Elbor's won. I don't want to hear it. There's literally
03:48a wheel in front of the other car, and that wheel is the center. Ah, yourself. Yes, yes,
03:54that's me winning. That's the sound of a winner. You have to admit that was far closer than the
04:00price difference between the car and the price difference between the car and the car.
04:05That's the sound of a winner. You have to admit that was far closer than the price difference
04:10between these two cars, your carbon fibre tub, and your newer technology should have been.
04:17Now, we all know this center is a race car for the racetrack. The fact that it could beat
04:21your straight line queen is quite impressive. And I think what you're going to find now is
04:25when I don't have this couple of generation old traction control system for launch control
04:30to work with, that I will sizzle you here on our rolling race. So the way it works is 50k
04:36an hour. Cameraman Igor is going to drop his hat and then we're going to go down the quarter mile.
04:41That is an obscene looking car. Okay Elbor's, let's do this.
04:45Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Oh yeah baby. Come on, come on, come on. Yeah baby, yeah.
04:52Yes baby, yes baby. Oh yes baby. There he is. There he is.
04:59Oh so close. God damn it. Let's get this window down so he can see that.
05:06I reckon you had a head start there. You were like half a car length ahead of me.
05:15Yes, because I was ready and you were just sitting there dawdling.
05:18I am happy to let you have one more time.
05:21Oh yeah baby. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
05:24Yeah baby, yes baby. Oh yes baby. There he is. There he is.
05:27Oh so close. God damn it. Let's get this window down so he can see that.
05:31You're like half a mile length ahead of me. Yes, because I was ready and you were just sitting there dawdling.
05:34I am happy to let you have one more attempt at that, but I'm quite comfortable that you were destroyed then.
05:39Yes, I was quite surprised by how much that car is pulling away, but let's just try it one more time to be sure.
05:45All right, let's go baby. And be next to me. Scoundrel.
05:52All right, here we go. Here we go.
05:58Oh no.
06:01Yes. Come on. Yes.
06:18Oh, that is gold victory. That is gold victory.
06:23It does look like the GoPro didn't catch that last run.
06:26So we just given it sort of running late today and we've got to get out of here.
06:30We might just sort of leave it at the run before. What do you guys reckon?
06:33Mate, I reckon when you don't cheat and you lose, you just got to own it sometimes.
06:38I will give you that. Finally, your extra runs here, getting your tyres warm has worked in your favour.
06:44I think the main difference was I did that in first gear. So that worked a little bit better in my favour.
06:49Ah, so you cheated. Excellent. Thank you.
06:51Now this is where I'm going to throw to the part where I'm just going to be quiet and you get to hear what these cars sound like accelerating down the quarter mile.
06:58So.
07:00So
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07:26so
07:38Wow, that was genuinely incredible stuff, literally pinch-yourself stuff. I can't believe we just got to do that, and the cars are still in one piece, and it was literally raining about 10 minutes before we started.
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