Here It Is! World’s Greatest Drag Race 10 (MotorTrend)
MotorTrend goes back to mano a mano racing to find the fastest car of 2020.
With military bases closed to the public to protect against potential foreign agents (of molecular size), the usual procedure for World's Greatest Drag Race had to be scrapped.
Gone was any option for using those velvet-smooth, 3.0-mile military runways. Thus, MotorTrend’s three-year stint at Vandenberg Air Force Base came to a close. But where to go instead?
MotorTrend’s original site for WGDR — the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro — has become so degraded over time that they didn't dare to take a field of supercars on it for high-speed runs. And most private airfields within reach of Los Angeles weren't long enough to handle what has gone from a crazy idea to the expected: a half mile run to determine the ultimate winner. (Note for the uninitiated: It takes a lot of real estate to slow down a two-ton supercar doing 170-plus mph.)
Enter an undisclosed test track in the California desert …
For the bracket; MotorTrend swapped the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 for the hybrid performance shootout-winning Acura NSX, then threw in the 2021 Truck of the Year Ram 1500 TRX for good measure (yes, really). The rest of the Best Driver's Car field: Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari F8 Tributo, Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, Lamborghini Huracán Evo, Porsche 911 Turbo S, and the (yes, really, again) Porsche Cayenne Turbo Coupe.
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