Today's crop of supercars and hypercars are quickly leaving traditional stat lines in the past. Gone are the days of 0-60 times, which have been rendered irrelevant as manufacturers such as Koenigsegg, SSC, and Hennessey Performance try to catch up to the Bugatti Chiron's 300-mile-per-hour run. Even horsepower figures have become somewhat silly, since electric vehicles like the forthcoming Rimac C_Two have thousands of foot-pounds of torque available from one single RPM. But there will always be a place for good old-fashioned drag racing, pitting two cars head-to-head to see which will accelerate faster—the lengths might extend but the fun continues all the same. But get ready for one of the weirder supercar showdowns ever in this new video from the YouTube channel Lovecars that features a McLaren 600LT and a Ferrari 488 Pista in one single launch off the line.

Italian Vs British Matchup

Lovecars hails from the United Kingdom, so it's clear where the loyalties in this race lie—just look at the starter flag's Union Jack. But the entire race is strange from start to finish. To begin with, neither car actually uses its launch control settings. Instead, both drivers decide to just mash the accelerator pedal when the time comes.

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600LT Vs 488 Pista: Comparing The Stats On Paper

Ferrari 488 Pista Vs McLaren 600LT
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On paper, this should be a pretty good matchup. Lovecars claims the McLaren makes 600 horsepower and 457 lb-ft of torque from its twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V8 while tipping the scales about ten pounds shy of 3,000. The Ferrari, meanwhile, employs a twin-turbo 3.9-liter powerplant pumping out 720 horses and 567 lb-ft of twist, and weighs about 70 pounds more.

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What Just Happened?

Ferrari 488 Pista Vs McLaren 600LT 3
via YouTube

Initially, the Ferrari gets a better jump off the line, with the McLaren hanging within what looks like a car's length. Then, about halfway to the finish line, the McLaren seems to reach other gear and hits another level of acceleration, walking its way to an easy victory.

The Lovecars clip wraps up the single, perplexing race by claiming that with launch control activated, both cars could probably best their quarter-mile times by about a second—which just leaves a major question hanging in the air—namely, why isn't that what we just watched? Or, let's do that next and film it, too. Or, perhaps, any form of analysis other than "driving style" being the difference in such a peculiar competition. Did the Ferrari driver think the race was over and let off the gas?

Sources: youtube.com and cars.mclaren.com.

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