{"id":3538,"date":"2022-01-21T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2023-03-28T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T10:16:08","slug":"watch-formula-onewrc-formula-cars-drag-race-wet-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/watch-formula-onewrc-formula-cars-drag-race-wet-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Formula One,WRC, and Formula E Cars drag race on wet runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Rally Championship, Formula One, and Formula E are among the top forms of motorsport in the world. Top Gear was able to collect a vehicle from each of these series for a drag race to see which one was the quickest in a drag race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically, the WRC machine is a Ford Fiesta. The Formula E car is from the DS squad. Finally, the F1 racer comes from Mercedes-AMG, so this isn&#8217;t a vehicle that would be running at the back of the pack in a grand prix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The runway is wet for this drag race so the Ford Fiesta WRC&#8217;s all-wheel-drive system has a distinct advantage in these conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DS Formula E machine finishes last. The EV is never a real challenger in the drag race. It sort of looks like the vehicle is gaining on the Fiesta WRC, but there would need to be a lot more track to make the pass.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a dry track, we&#8217;d expect the results to be very similar. The F1 car might win by a larger margin, but the all-wheel-drive WRC machine would still probably beat the Formula E racer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/557675\/wrc-formula-one-ev-race\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/557675\/wrc-formula-one-ev-race\/\">https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/557675\/wrc-formula-one-ev-race\/<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Rally Championship, Formula One, and Formula E are among the top forms of motorsport in the world. Top Gear was able to collect a vehicle from each of these series for a drag race to see which one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/watch-formula-onewrc-formula-cars-drag-race-wet-runway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viperperformance.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}