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This epic drag race is one for the ages. We pitted a 1200hp twin-turbocharged and supercharged RAM TRX up against a Ferrari 296 GT3 race car for a drag race across the 1/4 mile, along with a rolling race from 30km/h. The results shocked us!

Thanks to Dontex Performance and Arise Racing from bringing these two beasts in and eBay for helping us put this one on!

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Intro: 00:00
Race 1: 01:11
Race 2: 02:48
Roll race 1: 04:43
Roll race 2: 06:10
Timed runs: 07:23

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Transcript
00:00G'day, I'm Paul. This is a Ram TRX, but not just a normal Ram TRX, and that is a Ferrari 296,
00:25but also not a normal Ferrari 296, but that is a Ferrari 296 GT3 race car. And instead of my mate
00:32Elbows, who keeps muffing up these drag races, we've actually got a race car driver in that car,
00:38Elliot. He currently leads the championship here in Australia for the GT World Challenge Australia
00:43Series, which is pretty unreal. Big shout out to Dantex for loaning us this car. It is an absolute
00:48beast. It has over 1,200 horsepower, and eBay for helping us put this on as well. As a reminder,
00:54we are at a regional airport runway here, so the surface isn't very good. The times that you see
00:59here are not going to be representative of the times that you would see on a prep surface. That
01:03is also a race car. They do rolling starts, so it's going to be interesting to see how he goes. We've
01:07had a bit of rain. He's on wets. But anyway, enough excuses. Let's get straight into the drag races.
01:12Count us in when you're ready, Steve.
01:24Oh, we are hosing him.
01:48Oh, my God. This is quick.
01:50that is unbelievable oh man this car is on another planet entirely yeah i mean we got killed
02:04but it was fun there was a lot of spinning i wasn't sure when it was going to end but we
02:09finally got second here the truck was already gone yeah elliot i think you confused this for
02:14summer nats because all i saw was tire smoke coming out of that thing um i'm prepared to
02:19give you one more shot uh this time i will not use launch control and uh let's see how we go there
02:24but then once that's done we're going to do a rolling race where i think um it is going to be
02:29a much more even race sounds great man i need all the help that i can get well we just had them go
02:35past and the trx was uh quite substantially quicker the race car didn't get off the line very well so
02:40they're going to do another run and i'm hopeful that ferrari can reclaim some glory because otherwise
02:44that's pretty embarrassing for a ferrari race car to get beaten by an american ute okie dokie steve
02:50whenever you're ready i'm not going to use launch control give him a chance let's go
02:53i still cannot get over the noise this is making
03:18look he's catching me
03:25that was unreal as the rain starts setting in here i am on my slicks
03:41this car is ridiculous
03:45mate that was really close then um that was good all right i reckon let's go back
03:51and do a rolling race now because i think i'm going to have my work cut out for me
03:56that was a lot closer so i think elia got a much better start off the line i hope they do another
04:01one because i have hope i have hope that maric can be beaten we couldn't go drag racing without a
04:06lot of help so thanks to our mates at ebay we're able to bring you this latest drag racing series
04:11ebay has a range of performance parts that can help your car on the track whether you're chasing
04:16speed power or efficiency ebay's got the performance parts to match no matter the project
04:22you can even find the right tires to get the best launch possible which is something my mate
04:27elbows desperately needs ebay even has all of your favorite brands and products to help keep your
04:32track weapon clean for that podium picture at the end of the day so if you do need anything for
04:38your day at the track make sure ebay is your first stop now let's get back to the drag races okay so
04:43now we're going to do a rolling race um as the rain starts to set in so i am at a complete
04:47disadvantage here on every front but we're going to get up to about 30 k's an hour uh as soon as we
04:51hit the white line we're going to both mash it and it's going to be close uh i do reckon now that
04:56he's got some heat in the tires uh i could be in deep trouble he's got a whole tech team as well
05:00i'm just here on my own baby seat in the back all righty let's do this
05:05oh he's getting a good job
05:13oh this is close come on baby
05:29oh no that was so close um i think we muffed up the timing there at the start i reckon if you're
05:52keen let's do one more run there because that was so close you just won yeah sounds good
05:58well it just did the roll race i'm laughing because i was hysterically laughing at the
06:03ferrari finally winning some things i don't know if maric was actually going full throttle but that
06:07was really good it was so close i think it was only half a car length ahead
06:09all right let's have another crack at it
06:16oh come on come on come on
06:31oh this is so close
06:37i think you had a convincing win there my friend that was very close
06:52second second roll race uh ferrari beats paul's annoying american pickup truck once again i'm so
07:01happy because honestly that car looks a thousand times better it is the pinnacle of engineering and
07:06the trx man it's just so not for me hey i know you guys are going to burn me in the comments for
07:11not liking american utes and stuff but look at them ferrari every day now i'm going to be quiet so
07:17you get to listen to what these two cars sound like across the quarter mile with some numbers
07:21up on the screen as well this is going to be absolutely unreal
07:47so
07:54so
08:00so
08:08so
08:10so
08:17There you go. That was utterly epic. And a big shout out to Elliot, the team. This is a huge
08:27task to undertake. And eBay as well for helping us make this happen. This is seriously a pitch
08:33yourself moment. So if you want to check out our other drag races, make sure you have a look at
08:37the playlist on the YouTube channel. Big shout out to the legends out here at Wildcatchem as well
08:41for having us. So please stop by and check it out. Have a meal at the pub. And if you did enjoy the
08:45video, please make sure you like it and you share it with your mates. But until next time, take it easy.
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