---
title: "This Insane Supercar Drag Race Face-Off Just Might Blow Your Mind"
description: "From modern-day hypercars to immaculate vintage speed machines, this video has something for everyone."
date: "2017-09-08"
modified: "2017-09-08"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/14184/this-insane-supercar-drag-race-face-off-just-might-blow-your-mind"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Drag Race"
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
  - "runway"
  - "Supercars"
---

# This Insane Supercar Drag Race Face-Off Just Might Blow Your Mind

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Watch enough YouTube, and sooner or later, you might start to feel a little blasé about supercars racing one another down empty runways. Ever since *Top Gear* pioneered the format a couple decades back, it's become a staple of the automotive entertainment complex. It's always entertaining—after all, it's hard to get sick of watching fast cars go WOT and hit triple-digit speeds—but after all these years, the format's not quite as fresh as it once was.

The [11-minute video of a supercar meet in Switzerland](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXqaigVroqs>) embedded below, though...it's something else entirely.

The first 20 seconds, which feature the likes of [the LaFerrari-based track-only Ferrari FXX K](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/11976/watch-these-3-million-ferrari-fxx-ks-run-laps-at-a-very-wet-spa-francorchamps>) and the [brand-spanking-new 812 Superfast](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/11671/2018-ferrari-812-superfast-driven-the-maranello-mauler>) blasting down the tarmac with V12s screaming, is enough to clue discerning supercar lovers into the fact that this video is something special. The fourth-gen Dodge Viper ACR and current Porsche 911 GT3 RS that take off side-by-side seconds later are added proof.

But it's the moment you see a Mercedes-AMG SLS GT3R race car start whipping off donuts in front of a panoramic alpine view that it hits you: This is the sort of spectacle you might never see in real life.

Do you think you'll ever personally see [a Porsche 959](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/1577/a-porsche-959-prototype-the-ultimate-eighties-hero-is-for-sale>) blast down a stretch of road just seconds ahead of [a 918 Spyder](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/11533/want-to-buy-a-10k-mile-porsche-918-spyder-for-1-4-million>)? Or watch a Carrera GT go head-to-head against [a Maserati MC12](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14040/buy-this-maserati-mc12-corsa-for-only-2-8-million>)? Or, perhaps craziest of all, see the the classic 1990s Le Mans matchup of the [Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/12527/watch-an-ultra-rare-mercedes-benz-clk-gtr-blitz-down-a-narrow-road>) and the [Porsche 911 GT1](<https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/8281/gooding-co-sell-one-of-twenty-porsche-911-gt1-for-5-66-million-dollars>) in a balls-to-the-wall drag race down an airstrip?

Yeah. We doubt we ever will, either.

https://youtube.com/embed/SXqaigVroqs

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
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[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)