YouTube 9 second drag karts

Mook

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https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a28277077/drag-kart-video/

Take these top-level drag karts, for example. Filmed this past weekend at Santa Pod Raceway in Wellingborough, England, they pair high-revving engines to custom tube-frame chassis, allowing them to run some extremely impressive quarter-mile times. Like any full-size drag car worth its time slips, they have working aerodynamics and sticky, specially-designed tires, too.

A couple of the karts in this video even break the 10-second barrier, with the quickest managing a 9.3-second run at 138 mph. That's faster than pretty much any new supercar around.

https://youtu.be/zC_A69Sp92U
 

Dan00Hawk

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i love the thought of owning something like that.

but they dont even go as fast as the bike those engines came out of... what gives?

Look at the small diameter of those rear wheels. It may give it some great initial acceleration due to the gearing advantage, but a bike with the larger wheels would have a much stronger top end.
 
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