Drag Race: 1,000hp BMW M3 vs 1,000hp Tesla Model S Plaid
Summary
TLDRThe video features a quarter-mile drag race between a heavily modified 1,039 horsepower BMW M3 and a Tesla Model S Plaid making over 1,000 horsepower. After an initial loss, the Tesla comes back to tie the BMW in a photo finish quarter-mile run. The Tesla wins a rolling race but loses in top speed. Surprisingly, the much heavier Tesla also beats the BMW in two brake tests. Both high-powered electric and petrol cars have strengths and weaknesses, making for an exciting and close overall competition.
Takeaways
- 😲 They raced a 1,200 horsepower Tesla Model S Plaid against a heavily modified 1,039 horsepower BMW M3 Competition
- 🚗 The M3 Competition has been modified by Tom Wrigley Performance to make over 1,000 horsepower
- 🏎 On a prepped surface, the M3 can do 0-60 mph in 2 sec and a quarter mile in 9.3 sec
- 👀 In the first race, the M3 got a better start and beat the Tesla by about 1 second
- 🔋 The Tesla wasn't at peak battery performance in the first race
- ⚡ After warming up properly, the Tesla beat the M3 in the second race by a lot due to a bad M3 launch
- 🥇 The final race was incredibly close with a photo finish, but the Tesla narrowly won
- 🏁 The M3 won the rolling race due to its higher top speed
- 💨 Surprisingly, the much heavier Tesla stopped over a car length shorter in braking tests
- 😃 Both cars are insanely quick, but have tradeoffs - the Tesla needs warmup, the M3 needs special fuel
Q & A
What cars are racing in this video?
-A Tesla Model S Plaid is racing against a modified BMW M3 Competition.
How much horsepower does the Tesla have?
-The Tesla has 1,020 horsepower from its 3 electric motors.
How much horsepower does the BMW have?
-The modified BMW makes 1,039 horsepower.
What modifications were done to the BMW?
-It has a built engine, upgraded turbos, cooling system, and exhaust to produce over 1,000 horsepower.
What was the result of the first race?
-The BMW won the first race by about 1 second.
What happened in the second race?
-The Tesla won the second race due to a bad launch by the BMW.
What was the result of the final race?
-It was a photo finish draw between the Tesla and BMW in the final race.
Which car won the rolling race?
-The BMW won the rolling race due to its higher top speed.
Which car stopped better in the brake test?
-The Tesla won the brake test by over a car length.
What charity was the BMW driver representing?
-The BMW driver represented a charity called Race to Save Lives.
Outlines
😊 Tesla vs BMW drag race introduction
The first paragraph introduces a drag race between a Tesla Model S Plaid with 1,020 horsepower and a heavily modified BMW M3 Competition making 1,039 horsepower. It describes the Tesla's performance specs and mentions previous races where it beat other high-performance cars.
🏁 Quarter mile drag race begins
The second paragraph details the first quarter mile drag race between the Tesla and BMW. The BMW gets a better start and wins by half a second. The Tesla's battery was not preconditioned so it was not in peak performance mode.
⚡ Second race after battery warmup
The third paragraph covers the second quarter mile race after the Tesla battery was warmed up. This time the Tesla gets a better start and beats the BMW by over a second. The BMW had a bad launch which was not a fair comparison.
🥇 Final deciding race
The fourth paragraph describes the final deciding quarter mile race. It was incredibly close with the cars neck and neck. The Tesla pulled ahead initially but the BMW caught up at the end to win by a very small margin. A photo finish was required to determine the winner.
🏎 BMW wins rolling race
The fifth paragraph covers a rolling race starting at speed. The BMW pulls ahead of the Tesla which is limited to 165 mph in this mode. The BMW's higher horsepower allows it to continue accelerating beyond the Tesla's limit.
⚠️ Tesla wins brake test
The sixth paragraph describes a brake test between the cars. The heavier Tesla stops over a car length shorter than the BMW, winning the brake test.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Tesla Model S
💡horsepower
💡drag race
💡rolling race
💡brake test
💡quarter mile time
💡maximum speed
💡modified
💡gas car
💡performance
Highlights
Tesla Model S Plaid vs heavily modified BMW M3 competition in a drag race
The BMW M3 makes 1,039 horsepower with modified engine, turbos and exhaust
The Tesla needs time to condition the battery before reaching peak performance
First race - BMW gets a good start and gaps the Tesla by 1 second
Second race - Bad launch for BMW, Tesla takes the win
Final race - Neck and neck finish, BMW wins by a yard
Tesla won the quarter mile, BMW took the half mile
Rolling race - BMW able to keep pulling at high speed while Tesla tops out
First braking test - Surprisingly the Tesla stops much shorter
Second braking test - Same result confirms Tesla's superior braking
The modified BMW needs special fuel to make full power
The Tesla requires battery conditioning before unleashing full performance
Tesla had a slight edge in the standing mile
BMW's higher top speed allowed it to win the half mile
Tesla definitively had better braking capability
Transcripts
this is a Tesla Model S one of the
fastest cars on the planet 1,20
horsepower 3 electric motors and not to
60 in under 2 seconds you might remember
we let a Porsche tyan and Audi RS rron
GT tried to beat this car in a track
race and let's just say it didn't end
well go oh my god oh oh R he's got ahead
of me oh I'm actually winning I'm
actually winning I am not winning oh my
word that ter Tesla that car is so fast
look at
it Jesus that is nut So today we're
letting petrol have a go and we've put
the petrol into something very special a
BMW M3 competition but not just any M3
competition that thing has been modified
very heavily by Tom Wrigley performance
it makes
1,039 horsepower so this should be a
very very close
race qu mile 2,000 horsepower and a lot
that could go wrong well let's talk to
the man himself shall we Tom thanks for
bringing along that blue monster of
yours uh what have you actually done to
it yeah first of all thanks for inviting
us on the channel it's an absolute
pleasure to be here um so yeah this is
the stage 3 G80 M3 we've built um for
r44 performance built it together it's
features the main basically stage three
package water class on these cars so the
main features of that are a built engine
which we do in house in our Workshop in
oer stre some pure hybrid turbos a CSF
cooling package along with a full
exhaust from Grail today we'll be
running on ethanol so we'll be getting
the full 1,39 horsepower and uh I can't
wait to see what it's going to do it's
going to be
awesome it looks quite subtle I like the
way you've actually done it you haven't
gone too overboard on that um but
presumably it sounds quite nice can you
give it a little
rev when the vales open they sound
pretty epic but uh yeah the stylings all
down to r44 they do an epic job it's
nice clean look about it but with um
lots of nice sub bits of carbon and um
yeah we let the numbers do the
talking speaking of which have you done
a quarter mile running that before yeah
so this car was finished just in time to
get for the last few races of the Season
at Santa pod uh so on a fully prepped
surface it'll do not to 6 in 2 seconds
dead and a quar mile time of
9.3 um at4 45 mph I think it was so it
can definitely move today I don't think
we're going to quite get that power down
um what would it been a little bit
greasy but we'll see It'll be very
interesting obviously both cars have got
the same challenges to compete with so
it will be very
interesting all right mate I seen you
got your lid on so I'm going to do
exactly the same cuz this is going to be
a fast one uh so if you're ready we'll
do it yeah let's do it I feel I've got a
lot of pressure on my uh shoulders from
all the petrol heads here so um let's
see what we can do for them quite
nervous now actually I I don't know if I
even want to win against that car but we
got the Pinnacle of electric performance
certainly in a mass Market Arena um
against the Pinnacle of petrol
performance modified very heavily all
right so
typically my Tesla is now saying I need
19 minutes for it to reach Peak
Performance but we're not going to
listen to it we're just going to run it
anyway cuz let's face it in the real
world you're not going to sit around for
19 minutes so we're going to we're going
to run it the first time with the
battery cold because we had warmed it up
to be fair but now it's got cold again
while we chatted and it wants 19 minutes
again but we're going to run it and see
what happens all right yeah that's fine
me
mate okay
boost 3 2 1 go okay he's got a good
start I'm actually hanging with
him he's pulling away slightly actually
know he's pulling away quite a lot n
he's about two car lengths in front
we're doing 150 mph and he's
gaining he's actually gapped me he's
actually gapped me all right
so round one to
petrol I will say I wasn't in Peak
Performance but it was about a second
gap on that one good race though Tom how
did that feel yeah I just got so much
wheel spin I mean um normally these cars
shift automatically in the launch
sequence but it actually
um it didn't know what to do I think the
wheels just span out so violently that
it just um yeah it got a bit confused on
the gears but it was yeah it was still
ridiculous I mean I think it did add the
drag on then it still did a 9 9.74 Mile
so it's not too shabby not too shabby
indeed it's worth noting that our Finish
Line is at the heart half mile Mark the
M3 did the quter mile in a 9.7 while the
Plaid managed a 10.2 half a second back
but we know both cars can do better so I
popped off to get my battery in the
right operating window and my tires warm
Tom whose M3 happened to be using
identical msten Pilot Sport 4S rubber to
the Tesla decided to do the same once we
were both happy we reconvened for
another run okay mate boost 3 2 1 go
[Music]
better start and we have left him oh yes
I'm going to keep running
it this was a lot better oh yeah we're
doing
150 160 165 over the
line and it is
11 1 the Tesla came back he had a
terrible launch so obviously this is
this isn't 100% Fair I'd say but I'm
still taking that
Victory Tom what happened bad
launch yeah it literally just spun all
four wheels the whole way down the road
then so I don't know I'm not going to
make too many excuses but defo looked a
bit wet on my
side okay all right we're going to call
it 1 one and um we'll give it one more
go hopefully he can get a perfect launch
cuz my car's still happy and uh we and
see what happens okay
mate sadly Tom's car wasn't happy he
decided he needed to pop off to fill up
with fuel and not just any ordinary fuel
to unleash his full power he needed
stuff you can't actually buy at a petrol
station soon enough though we were ready
to run it again and this would decide
who was truly
fastest okay
boost 3 2 1
go
I'm actually in the lead at this moment
he is just behind me this is very very
close he's not closing the Gap as
quickly as I might expect he's still
there he's still there I'm not pulling
anymore and it is oh my God that is a
that's a dead heat over the line that's
very close the Tesla stopped
pulling about 50 yards from the end I
reached the pretty much top speed um it
stopped accelerating and then that M3
just came back Tom uh that was a great
race good launch I'm happy with mine
over the line I have no idea who won
what' you reckon oh man that was an epic
race
literally um yeah don't know it was
close I think really mate you'd have to
go back to the cameras on that one but
yeah that that was absolutely epic I
think that was a true representation of
both cars there yeah definitely all
right photo finish that was
exciting all right we'll have a look and
see who won and then um yeah I'll get
the champagne On Ice I'm quite confident
with that oh mate my heart is racing
that was epic it was literally neck and
neck the whole way down there um it's
just yeah it's awesome to see how two
completely different
cars um are doing yeah equal things
really right I'm going to have a word
with the cameraman and see if he can
give me a clue as to what might have
happened I have no idea
yeah I have no idea yeah okay cool we'll
look we'll look back at it no idea it
looks like it looks like a draw from
what I can
see here's the story of the race which
ran over a total of a half mile to the
flag the Tesla got a slightly better
start and began pulling smoothly with
the M3 losing ground with every gear
shift by the time we got to the quarter
mile marker near the plains the Tesla
was ahead completing the quarter mile in
9.7 seconds the M3 was a tenth behind as
we continue to the half mile marker at
higher speeds the Plaid seemed to reach
its V-Max and stopped accelerating at
which point the M3 pulled past to take
the Wind by a yard would the model S
plaid track pack with its much higher
top speed have taken the win perhaps one
day we'll find out but for now here's
the rolling
race right here we go rolling race over
the line and
go
okay he's actually pulling away from me
ever so slightly
oh my God yeah you see he's actually
using an extra horsepower that's where
the horsepower tells I've stopped
pulling now at 165 that is where the
Tesla hits its maximum speed it seems
certainly in this mode cuz it stops
pulling after
165 and the BMW takes the rolling race I
mean I think he might have been slightly
ahead of me over the line when we
started but I wouldn't have caught him I
was up for you
mate yeah I'm pretty happy with that I
think you might have been a a little bit
ahead of me over the start but I wasn't
catching you either way cuz I hit I hit
my V-Max at about 165 stopped
accelerating basically and you were
pulling all the way okay mate I could do
one more if you wanted but um if you're
happy with that that's fine for me yep
totally happy with that but we had one
more event to run what goes fast must
come to a stop so it was time for a
break
test
3 2 1
break look at
[Laughter]
that uh well there seems to be a bit of
a gap between us do you reckon that was
acceptable are you happy with
that yeah M I am I think to be fair I
think I always thought that was going to
stop a bit better if I'm honest um yeah
that fair enough man I don't think we're
going to get much better than that
that's interesting I didn't think the
Tesla would Outbreak The M3 but um I
mean the pictures don't lie do they so
yeah I'll take that of course this is
YouTube so there will be about half a
million of you suggesting that there's
no way the Tesla would win a break test
because it's far heavier than the M3 so
we decided to run it again to see if the
result would be any different 3 2 1
break look at that look at that the
Tesla
won okay I mean that's pretty definitive
right that is a a a car length and a
half maybe gap between
us yeah there really is no argument with
that mate that was bang on as well I was
literally right on when you said as well
so I think uh yeah that's conclusive
mate two n to you on that one I'm
afraid so in conclusion both cars are
very rapid both cars have their quirks
the M3 needs special fuel to develop
this level of power and the Tesla needs
to condition the battery before it can
unleash its full potential the Tesla won
the race to the4 mile just and the M3
with its Superior top speed won the race
to the half mile Mark finally the Tesla
had the better stopping power right
thank you very much to Tom for coming
along Tom actually represents a very
cool charity called the race to save
lives all the contact details for those
guys are down in the description box
below make sure you go check them out
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