Drag Race: Red Bull Pits MotoGP Bike Against F1 and Rally Cars

Red Bull has gone and usurped a quarter-mile drag strip so that they can run a speed test – and while that sentence itself boasts nothing out of the ordinary, the machines chosen for the honors are quite another matter. 

A MotoGP bike, a Formula One racer, two Rally cars and a 2,040hp SuperVan try drag racing. Media sourced from Red Bull on Youtube.

Here’s a list of the rev-happy monsters chosen to blast the straightaway, in order of the above photo:

1. A 1,500kW (2,040hp) E-Transit Ford SuperVan 4.2, driven by Romain Dumas
2. 2019 FIA World Rallycross champ Timmy Hansen set with his Rally Championship Car
3. M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Adrien Fourmaux in his built-for-start-line-acceleration WRC Rally1 Hybrid car (additional mention of drivers includes Matt Jones and CarWow’s Mat Watson)
4. Dani Pedrosa and his bonkers MotoGP Red Bull Factory Racing KTM RC16
5. Liam Lawson aboard Sebastien Vettel’s 2012 Championship-winning Formula One RB8

A MotoGP bike, a Formula One racer, two Rally cars and a 2,040hp SuperVan try drag racing. Media sourced from Red Bull on Youtube.

With a lineup like this, a few choice English phrases come to mind, “off your rocker” and “bat out of Hell” being but a few. 

Fancy a guess at who bit pavement the hardest? 

A MotoGP bike, a Formula One racer, two Rally cars and a 2,040hp SuperVan try drag racing. Media sourced from Red Bull on Youtube.

Big congrats to Dani Pedrosa and his RC16, having made his Red Bull Racing team proud by snatching up all three first-place spots in the event!  Honorable mention goes to the Ford SuperVan 4.2, whose yank-ey electric torquedos beat all cars in the competition while simultaneously giving Jones a reason or two to change pants. 

Matt is in the Super Van. Media sourced from Youtube.

What do you think of Red Bull’s drag race?

*Media source from Youtube*

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