By now we’ve seen a few 918s destroyed in terrible crashes and so many others for sale at crazy prices we began to wonder if most owners would keep them as garage queens. Not this guy. Taking part in last year’s “Streetcar Takeover event in Atlanta, this 918 owner showed up to play. Participating in 1/4 mile drag race after 1/4 mile drag race this owner was “just getting started” as he said. His 918 rolls to the line, in all electric mode no less, and takes on everything from Nitro breathing Corvette to Turbo powered Camaro. He proceeds to destroy almost all of them without missing a beat. Watch as one super car owner uses his 918 Spyder as Porsche intended. On the track!
I think, more than anything, what I like about this 918 is its livery. I love the fact that it’s wrapped to match the 918 RSR concept from the Detroit premier.
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I'm surprised more Porsche owners don't take their cars to the drag races as it is a cheap way to race your car and compete against others. When I lived near Sears Point I took my 986 to the open night drags and raced all night for $25. I was always the only Porsche there and of course everyone wanted to beat me but even with all my street junk in the car I usually made it into the semi finals and only lost by milliseconds in the bracket time races. Along with DE and AX it is another form of competition to round out the experience of driving one's Porsche. Too bad it was a series of pics put together and not a real video it would have been fun to actually see how fast that 918 went.
Ron, what do you mean by a "series of pics". It's a full motion video, you can see the timing station and hear the announcer in most of them. He mostly ran around low 10 seconds at 140 mph or so.
Maybe it was the way it played out on my computer. It looked like a series of stills made into a video. I'll try it again to see if it plays smoother.
I replayed the video and the sounds are all there but parts of the video play like a video and parts play like a series of photos. For instance in the interview, while the owner is in the car with helmet on, I can hear the full interview but the video is stuck on him like a still image, then jumps to him in another position. Same with the starts of the races. All the revving can be heard and the cars pull up to the light like a video but when they start I can hear the sounds of acceleration and the announcer but the cars jump to different lengths of the track like a series of photos. I'm on a mac and generally don't have a problem with videos. I enjoyed it but it seems there is a technical problem playing on my mac and that is why I made the comment.
Ronald. That's strange. I wonder if it's a bandwidth issue on your end, a YouTube issue or something on our site. We can't replicate it and it plays fine for us from multiple machines, using multiple connections (including our phones on 4G/LTE network).
I'm going to assume it is on my end but it is the first time I've run into this. I've run a program on my mac to restore permissions and I'll try it again.
Nope, still jumping but I enjoyed it anyway. First time a Utube video has done this on my mac.