Audi TT RS Drags McLaren and Porsche at TX2K24, Someone Gets Stunned Easily

Self-intitled as the 'Super Bowl' of street car racing, TX2K (presented in 2024 by Summit Racing Equipment) took place at 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 and, almost four decades later, continues to see a lot of action.

The channel's videographer started documenting TX2K24 with a series of unfortunate mishaps – sadly, crashes are part of the sport of racing, and people who think that straight-line acceleration is safer than other motorsport should look at past features which include a Nissan Fairlady Z (Datsun 240Z) hot rod, an Audi R8, and a Ford Mustang, all sliding across the tarmac and meeting the concrete barrier without asking it out on a date first.

After that, it was obviously time for some of the great highlights. Mopar aficionados will be happy to hear that an orange and black-striped Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat took a new category world record with a 7.48s pass at 184 mph, and a sleeper BMW M240i was also quick to put a Toyota GR Supra cousin in its corner, with a high seven-second pass, too. Now, though, we're focusing on five-cylinder action with a PPF-wrapped 2019 Audi TT RS that didn't mind racing a trio of exotics.

The first skirmish is against a black-orange, heavily modded McLaren 720S. Still, the British supercar's driver may have been more preoccupied with looking good on social media rather than winning the race, judging by the pole camera. In contrast, the Audi TT RS meant business and wrapped the inaugural race with a 9.11s versus 10.16s victory, just to put things into the proper perspective.

However, a second pole camera-bearing McLaren didn't make the same mistake later during the night, and this time around, the Audi TT RS was vanquished with a 9.26s versus 10.33s result. Yep, it's hard to be consistent at that level, it's true. No worries, the feisty coupe from Ingolstadt lived to fight another brawl – this time against a blue Porsche 911 and the great-looking rear-engined icon from Germany had to admit defeat as the TT RS went for the run of its life with a best-of 8.87s victory (vs 9.94s for the adversary).

If you want to know more about the Audi and its driver, there's also a second video from The Drag Race that features a quick presentation interview.