Audi R8 Drags Mustang, Fairlady Z Races Supra Mk4, Someone Crashes Hard and Another Mild

Unfortunately, crashes are part of racing, and people who think that straight-line acceleration is safer than other motorsport should look at the two videos embedded below. So, let's start from the beginning. Labeled as the 'Super Bowl' of street car racing, TX2K (presented in 2024 by Summit Racing Equipment) entered a new era at a new 'championship-level' facility.

The historic Texas Motorplex, the "world's first single-pour, tension concrete track, where speed was born," is a quarter-mile drag racing facility located in Ennis, Texas, United States, which is about 40 miles south of downtown Dallas. The racing complex traces its origins to 1986 when former funny car driver Billy Meyer built the track, and it was dubbed as the original 'super track' for the NHRA (National Hot Rod Association).

It is currently home to the TX2K and NHRA Fall Nats Stampede of Speed, among others, so it's got both the pedigree and experience to handle just about everything – including some cringy accidents. Two of them were captured on camera by the good folks over at ImportRace, a YouTube channel dedicated to quarter-mile drag and roll racing.

During the first video, we focus on a powerful S550 Ford Mustang dressed in silver, which goes up against a feisty Audi R8 dressed in black. From the onset, the desire to win is so extreme that both cars start losing control immediately past the Christmas tree. Unfortunately, only one of the drivers managed to regain control quickly enough to avoid the disastrous encounter with the concrete barrier – the Audi R8 crashed with the rear first after drifting across the entire track surface.

Luckily, aside from the two driver's pride and the Audi R8, no one was injured – the driver came out seemingly unharmed after initially attempting to take his formerly pristine supercar out of the lane. The crowd, always happy to see a crash that lets the humans escape from harm's way, gleefully cheered and applauded the surviving driver as the officials took him to the side of the track for the usual check-ups.

Secondly, the same event was also hosted by old-school racers, and two of them met on the track to see who had the best 'restomod-hot-rod' attitude down the quarter-mile. As such, the second video embedded below focuses on a feisty Toyota Supra Mk4 and heavily modified first-generation Nissan 'Fairlady' Z that wanted a shot at TX2K24 glory, but one of them got a brush encounter with disaster.

More precisely, the Supra shot out of its starting position like a rocket and wrapped the pass in 7.65s – a stunning victory. However, all eyes were on the restomod Z, which not only was far behind it due to a lower reaction time (which maybe was associated with a mechanical failure, perhaps) but also got into major trouble immediately after it darted in a bid to recoup the lost time.

Instead of performing a miraculous comeback, though, it performed a low-altitude wheelie and didn't stick the landing – the little old Nissan also swerved out of control and performed a 270-degree spin that led it to hit the concrete barrier hard with the rear of the car. Again, luckily, no one was harmed, and the announcer let everyone know the driver was safely out of the vehicle and that no fluid had leaked on the track's surface.