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When you hit the drag strip in a supercar, everybody wants to take a shot at you. From tuner rides to muscle cars, you'll enjoy plenty of attention and thus practicing your sprinting can always turn into admiring the posterior of a machine that costs way less.
Sure, supercars have brilliant power-to-weight ratios and with the genre making use of dual-clutch trannies these days, rushing down the strip is done in blitz mode. However, supercars do have one drawback and this is related to the starting phase of the race.
You see, the said dual-clutch trannies, which have completely taken over this segment of the industry, are suitable for both hooning and daily driving situations. But this also means that supercars can't do burnouts, so there's no way to get those tires up to temperature before the race.
Sure, you could always bring tire warmers to the track, but the process is anything but easy, from carrying the extra equipment to making sure you start the run before the tires cool down.
Well, certain supercars owners out there have decided to turn to the aftermarket side of the industry in their quest for drag racing glory. And we've brought along an example that involves a McLaren 720S.
Now, the 720S is already the quickest supercar out there and can even punch into hypercar territory - here's the world record, which sits at 9.7 seconds for the stock vehicle (note that another Macca 720S had previously done the same, albeit while using the said tire warmer trick).
However, the driver of the example we have here wanted to take things further, which is why he installed a system that allows him to do burnouts. It seems the supercar received a line lock system, as featured on multiple factory muscle cars these days, with these allowing the driver to freeze the front brakes and put some temperature into the rear tires.
And you can check out the mid-engined machine putting on a smoke show in the Instagram clip below. Will this allow the McLaren 720S to deliver a quarter-mile run of, say, 9.5 seconds? Only time (and perhaps some tire sets) will tell.
You see, the said dual-clutch trannies, which have completely taken over this segment of the industry, are suitable for both hooning and daily driving situations. But this also means that supercars can't do burnouts, so there's no way to get those tires up to temperature before the race.
Sure, you could always bring tire warmers to the track, but the process is anything but easy, from carrying the extra equipment to making sure you start the run before the tires cool down.
Well, certain supercars owners out there have decided to turn to the aftermarket side of the industry in their quest for drag racing glory. And we've brought along an example that involves a McLaren 720S.
Now, the 720S is already the quickest supercar out there and can even punch into hypercar territory - here's the world record, which sits at 9.7 seconds for the stock vehicle (note that another Macca 720S had previously done the same, albeit while using the said tire warmer trick).
However, the driver of the example we have here wanted to take things further, which is why he installed a system that allows him to do burnouts. It seems the supercar received a line lock system, as featured on multiple factory muscle cars these days, with these allowing the driver to freeze the front brakes and put some temperature into the rear tires.
And you can check out the mid-engined machine putting on a smoke show in the Instagram clip below. Will this allow the McLaren 720S to deliver a quarter-mile run of, say, 9.5 seconds? Only time (and perhaps some tire sets) will tell.
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