Drag Racing

This assortment of Red Bull-branded vehicles from various motorsports meet for a drag race showdown

It’s an electric vs combustion competition in these drag races from Carwow, which contain results you may find surprising

When your car crosses the line at over 250mph, you could do with your parachute brakes working. If they don’t, you’d better be awake…

Even though it’s over 100bhp and 165lb ft down on the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the Ford GT’s V-max mode helps it out-drag its muscle rival time after time

As disappointing as the MkIII VW Golf was in almost every way, it's impossible not to feel the shock and awe of this drag missile powered by two separate turbocharged VR6 blocks

Despite a 440bhp advantage on paper over the standard, but insanely quick British supercar, this massively upgraded Challenger Hellcat still isn’t quite fast enough…

The GT R has monstrous torque from its 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, but can it overcome the hybrid wizardry and four-wheel drive of the mighty Honda NSX?

As if the standard Demon's ability to wheelie away from the line wasn't alarming enough - Hennessey has given the beast even more power

The standard RS3 is pretty damn quick, but this four-wheel drive uber-hatch has been given enough pace to run astonishing 9.8-second quarter-mile times

After being blown away on heavily-worn slick tyres a couple of weeks ago, the Dodge Demon is back to challenge the Tesla Model S P100D on new rubber

Hennessey Performance took a standard Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and ran it to its maximum speed of just 164mph, but the way it gets there is... dramatic

In an effort to help Demon owners avoid stacking their awesome drag strip machines, Dodge has partnered with a well-known driver training academy

These modern legends of American performance have both been tweaked up to genuinely silly power outputs, but which will win in a drag race?

Two-time Funny Car champion Cruz Pedregon went for an incredibly wild ride during the Toyota NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas after his drag racer caught flight and completed a beautiful wheelie

This Mustang owner doesn't seem to understand how gears work

Electricity dominates internal combustion in this series of drag races in a pretty depressing sight for petrolheads

This drag racer takes internal combustion to its epic maximum, creating sonic shock waves, a hellish exhaust note and big, big flames

A turbocharged Chevrolet suffered a transmission explosion followed by a scary fuel fire at the Showtime Dragstrip in Clearwater, Florida

NHRA Pro Mod racer Sidnei Frigo lost control of his Corvette during NHRA SpringNationals qualifying in Texas, crashing over the barrier and rolling several times

A twin-turbo V10 engine producing around 1800bhp catapults this epic Underground Racing Lamborghini Huracan to a quarter-mile time of 7.807 seconds at 187.8mph

In September 2015, drag racer Lyle Barnett's motor blew, shooting parts of engine into his helmet. As flames burst into the cabin, Barnett recalls the haunting moment his fuel cell exploded and what he did next...

NHRA Pro Mod driver Dan Stevenson’s car burst into flames mid-way through a qualifying run, but fortunately he was okay

After both bikes suffer mechanical problems, riders Maurice Allen and Ryan Learmonth race their bikes to the finish line, on foot. A real life Ricky Bobby moment!

Gary Densham was competing at the 2016 Circle K NHRA Winternationals in Pomona when the parachute of his racer failed to open and he careered into the safety net

Shawn Langdon's Top Fuel drag racer was fitted with an onboard camera for his 3.77 second, 316mph run at the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. As you'd expect, it looks crazy fast!