When it comes to racing,
When it comes to racing, there is ALWAYS someone quicker and faster. But historically, ICE (internal combustion engine) performance cars always exact a price for maximum performance. Gas powered cars historically gave you the option of being economical (cheap to buy and operate) and reliable, but with a cost of being slow/rough/loud. Or being smooth and quiet, or being fast and loud, and maybe unreliable. You could pay much more for a high performance car that was also reasonably quiet and luxurious, but it probably was very expensive to buy, run, and repair. EVs changed that paradigm forever. An EV like the Tesla Model S Plaid is quicker through the 1/4 mile than a $3 million dollar Bugatti Chiron, but it seats 5 in near silent comfort, and can run low 9 second 1/4 mile races back to back, over and over without costly repairs, and under normal operation it is as cheap to drive and run as a Honda Civic. For this race the factory stock, street and smog legal Tesla Plaid ran a nearly identical time as a highly modified drag race car with nitrous and racing slicks that was probably taken to the drag strip on a trailer. Plus other Plaid models have since run 6 sec flat at @120 MPH in the 1/8 mile. Still, there are a small handful of highly modified drag race cars that are quicker, but that is clearly missing the real point here. The Tesla is a super high performance car, that you can drive anywhere, inexpensively, comfortably, quietly, every day, for many years, and recharge at home overnight as you sleep. It doesn't cost millions to buy, or thousands to maintain, and operate. Tesla allows you to have your cake and eat it too. Which is important because what is the real point of having your cake if you can't eat it?