2,000-HP Ford Mustang Drags 1,550-HP Corvette and 1,800-HP Mustang. It's Done in 7 Seconds

Records were broken, parts flew off, cars hit the wall, tire smoke was at an all-time high, and everyone had a jolly good time – except for the losers, of course. The event, which started back in 2000, has become an annual tradition and a sort of proving ground to see where the new aftermarket racing mark stands in terms of classes and engine platforms.

Naturally, the most important class is the Elite category, where only the best 16 cars landed after competing in qualifications rounds first. On this occasion, it seems that even though TX2K24 happened back in March, its echoes still linger on – and the good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube are not at their usual venue - Island Dragway in Great Meadows, New Jersey but still at Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas.

So, after seeing a couple of heavily modded Pontiac G8s duke it out with matching-color and aptly-tuned Ford Mustang GTs and a 1,400-horsepower Whipple-supercharged Dodge Charger destroy a Challenger, another Charger Hellcat, as well as a mighty Cadillac CTS-V, it's time to see that green Ford Mustang in action yet again. We are talking about Brett LaSala and his Snot Rocket Mustang, of course.

Continuously pushing the Coyote platform, this racer always strives for the best with his street-legal Mustang, which has over 2,000 horsepower already. In the first skirmish of the video feature embedded below, the green Ford met an old-school C4 Chevrolet Corvette allegedly hiding no less than 1,550 horsepower under the wedge hood.

Well, that wasn't enough, even though both drivers had great reaction times – the Corvette seemed like it was almost standing still while the Mustang accelerated like a rocket, hence the flawless 7.771s versus 11.121s victory. Later during the night, the competition turned into a blue Ford Mustang with some 1,800 ponies under the hood and a tendency to do sideway burnouts. The race, meanwhile, was clean and uneventful as both racers strived for a perfect pass. In the end, it was close, but not close enough: 7.462s versus 7.584s. Can you guess who won?

By the way, the American muscle car and sports car field is going to be very interesting starting next year – Ford is almost ready to unleash the mind-bending (powerful, but also expensive) $325k Mustang GTD supercar that aims for a sub-seven-minute lap at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Meanwhile, Chevrolet will present the 2025 C8 Chevy Corvette ZR1 at the end of July with promises of around 850 hp for the twin-turbo V8 mill. As for Dodge, they will unleash something different entirely – the big Charger Daytona is all-electric or features a twin-turbo inline-six Hurricane mill under the hood.