---
title: "Watch a Mercedes-AMG GT Drag Race Drone That Hits 60 MPH in 1 Second"
description: "People are willing to race anything nowadays, and we're okay with that."
date: "2018-11-07"
modified: "2020-07-30"
authors:
  - name: "Elizabeth Puckett"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/elizabeth-puckett"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/drones/24737/watch-this-mercedes-amg-gt-roadster-drag-race-a-drone-that-hits-60-mph-in-1-second"
categories:
  - "Mercedes-Benz News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "drone"
  - "Drones"
  - "Mercedes-AMG"
  - "Mercedes-AMG"
  - "News"
  - "video"
---

# Watch a Mercedes-AMG GT Drag Race Drone That Hits 60 MPH in 1 Second

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2018/11/screen-shot-2018-11-06-at-3-49-09-pm.png>)
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A racing drone steps up to take on a [Mercedes AMG GT](<https://thestore.thedrive.com/>) Roadster in this air versus land showdown. This race between an [AMG GT Roadster](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/23546/2018-mercedes-amg-gt-c-roadster-test-drive-review-the-benz-convertible-sports-car-is-more-than-you-need>) and the high-performance quadcopter is an expected pairing, which makes it pretty, plus we’ll watch anything race.

The unmanned aerial vehicle in the [Mercedes-released](<https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/vehicles/passenger-cars/amg-gt/mercedes-amg-gt-roadster-sports-car-vs-racing-drone/>) clip accelerates to 60 miles per hour in one second, which is obviously quite a bit faster than the 3,700-pound Mercedes AMG GT Roadster, versus the one-pound drone. This little flying machine is made to [record races](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/23744/this-formula-drift-drone-footage-looks-like-a-forza-motorsport-trailer>), so it has to be pretty quick to get ahead of the sports cars its meant to track.

https://youtube.com/embed/fPE8DoW35co

Even though the AMG can’t reach 60 mph in one second, it can reach it 3.3 seconds. While it’s no dog down low, the engine powering it is a twin turbo 4.0-liter V8, so it really shows off once it gets off the line.

Due to the weight of the drone, it’s going to have quite a bit of an advantage over the Roadster, except when it comes to top speed or [unexpected track birds](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/24601/watch-this-bird-take-out-a-motorcycle-rider-going-115-mph>). The higher speed advantage of the Roadster doesn’t matter much in this race, or at least from what we see of it in this video—the contest is only a sprint race across smaller spaces.

It would be far more interesting to watch the two hash it out through an entire lap, going head-to-head, but we only get to see it over shorter distances. During the race to 100 meters, the drone has no problem shaking the GT, with the races getting a little closer over the second two laps.

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