The good folks over at the racing-focused ImportRace channel on YouTube are still not back at their usual venue - Island Dragway in Great Meadows, New Jersey but dwell around Texas Motorplex for additional coverage from TX2K24. Yes, we know the event occurred in March – but this videographer apparently sits on a ton of footage.
Let's see. The iconic event took place in March in Ennis, Texas, and the videographer behind this channel shared quite a few races during the initial coverage – there were at least eleven of them we thought interesting enough to share. Now, after visiting Island Dragway but also different other places like Maryland International Raceway, Bradenton Motorsports Park, and even Pocono Raceway, the videographer seems to have rediscovered Texas Motorplex and TX2K24.
The latest bundle has included just about everything, all over again – from colorful Hellcats and Camaros to feisty TT RS and Corvette sports cars, and from cool Pontiac G8s to heavily tuned Mustangs, Chargers, Corvettes, Cadillacs, and R35s (Nissan GT-R). Well, now it's time to sample only Blue Ovals – a trio of them, and they may be the most bonkers of them all as the host promises Mustang mayhem with three stallions battling for supremacy.
They are heavily tuned, of course, and power levels range from 1,600 to 2,500 horsepower if we can believe the description. First up at Texas Motorplex – "where speed was born" – are the modern S550 Mustangs, one dressed in a cool shade of maroon and featuring a closed-off front fascia with bulging hood and the other rocking and orange-and-gray livery plus a couple of turbos sticking out from the hood above the headlights like hell-spawn eyebrows.
We were expecting seven-second greatness from this encounter and weren't disappointed – at least partially. The right-lane Ford Mustang shot out like a veritable rocket and posted a flawless 7.226s pass at 197 mph (317 kph), but the other Blue Oval was like a turtle and strolled in its lane towards a dreadful 14.357s loss. After that, the twin-turbo Mustang took a solo run and posted an even better 7.175s!
The second skirmish happened during the cool of the night, and the twin-turbo S550 met up with a gray Fox Body Ford Mustang that allegedly had 2,500 horsepower under the bulging hood. Well, it doesn't matter the pony count if you're unable to rodeo them at will – the modern 'Stang again did its thing and won the skirmish while the Fox Body barely held its composure and avoided losing control. In the end, the times were speaking for themselves: 7.124s versus 10.727s!
So, what do you think – is the $325k Ford Mustang GTD going to become a good platform for building the next Blue Oval king of the local quarter-mile dragstrip, or is it better to wait for the Shelbys?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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