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Is This The Quickest Big Rig In The World? The Beast Goes 10-teens!


Is This The Quickest Big Rig In The World? The Beast Goes 10-teens!

So this should rile the troops up because for the first time in your lives you’ll find yourselves embroiled in a debate about what a “real” big rig is. Like the never ending, “what is a street car” argument, this insanely quick truck from Malta will incite debate over its legitimacy to be referred to as a “big rig” because it is clearly a racing truck. The driver sits in a center steer position, the engine is mounted mid-ships, and there’s lots more round tube chassis here than there is factory stuff, we’re pretty sure. Now, the truck does seem to be running traditional big truck style tires and from the sounds of it, may actually be running a manual transmission. Whether you want to call it a real big rig on not, we know one thing. The truck hauls absolute ass. Running down into the 10.10s at over 135-mph! The launch is super violent with the truck shuddering and shaking as the tires fight for traction.

Watch the two runs in this video and some of the others below. The most impressive thing to us is the top half of the track where the big truck really gathers steam at an alarming rate. It is pretty shocking to see how hard the big bastard pulls through the eighth-mile lights and beyond to the quarter mile finish line. The track in Malta has a half mile shutdown but the driver must want to save the brakes as he throws the laundry out after the run is complete. Sure looks cool, too.

Soooooo (as he gets ready to toss an incendiary device out there) is this the quickest big rig in the world? Is there someone quicker out there?  Is this truck a “real” big rig? Is it “cheating” to run a full race truck? Are you impressed by the display this baby puts on? We are!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO WATCH THE CLAIMED QUICKEST BIG RIG IN THE WORLD HAUL INTO THE 10S ON THE DRAG STRIP IN MALTA!


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8 thoughts on “Is This The Quickest Big Rig In The World? The Beast Goes 10-teens!

  1. claymore

    Over in europe there is a whole “big rig” racing series and it’s very popular. Like our road racing they race on tracks with corners. This looks like it could have been one of them.

    1. lenny cook

      ….check out the bandag bandit truck, I believe it would give it a good run for its money. There are a lot of trucks out there like this. It’s great to watch them run.but I still like to watch the guys run the loaded trucks of the big hills.

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