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Watch One Of The Quickest AWD Drag Cars In The World Get Wild On The Strip – EKanoo GTR

Bahrain’s EKanoo Racing has a fleet of cars that range from big nitrous engined Pro Mods to the insane GT86 Toyota which has made repeated five second runs with a 2JZ engine. The guys also have one of the quickest all wheel drive drag racing cars in the world which is in the form of this R35 GTR which has been in the low 7s and getting deeper by the week. While the video below does not show a record run, it does show what it takes to manhandle an all wheel drive car down the strip while it is spinning all four tires and desperately clawing for traction every inch of the way.

It is pretty awesome that the EKanoo guys have left this one AWD because as best we can tell most of the other insanely fast GTRs have been converted to RWD only because frankly that’s the easy way to do it. Drag racing, as odd as it seems has never really been a great place for all wheel drive cars. Yes, there have been some valiant attempts (hello Ivo Showboat, Gary Gabelich funny car, and Miss Misery truck) but they have all proven to be tough to make consistent on the track. In the case of Ivo’s car, the fact that it would spin all four tires made it easier to drive than the other AWD efforts in the past.

When you watch this car go down the strip, you’ll be thinking that there is something wrong with it. There is not, this is just what it looks like when both ends of the car are both putting power to the ground. It is tough to ask a tire to both accelerate and steer the car but that is what is going on here and that’s why you see the thing making the wild lateral movements that it does before the driver finally has to lift.

It has to be interesting and it has to be kind of fun but it also has to be unnerving when that thing is trying to rip the wheel from your hands!