{"id":18906,"date":"2022-07-19T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T07:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/watch-a-chevy-s-10-blazer-beat-a-tesla-model-3-in-a-one-lap-race\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T07:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T07:45:41","slug":"watch-a-chevy-s-10-blazer-beat-a-tesla-model-3-in-a-one-lap-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/watch-a-chevy-s-10-blazer-beat-a-tesla-model-3-in-a-one-lap-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Chevy S-10 Blazer Beat a Tesla Model 3 in a One-Lap Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>A quick car is nothing without an equally quick driver.  So demonstrated the wheelman of the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer that dominated a Tesla Model 3 in a one-lap race that was caught on camera, earning their 15 minutes of fame in a video that has since gone viral.  It takes a lot of gusto to drive the car you pay for extremely hard, especially in a wheel-to-wheel setting, but it was nothing for this guy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>This all took place at the Independence Day Thrill Show Spectator Drags at Seekonk Speedway, a one-third-mile short oval in Seekonk, Massachusetts.  the spectacle was at it sounds;  a run-what-you-brung event where the public can enter their road cars in brief, one-lap races sometimes called circle drags.  This type of race generates eclectic fields and unusual matchups, like this one, between an electric Tesla and an old-school Chevy S-10 Blazer driven by one Charlie Guardino.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>The video below should be cued in to start at the right time, but if not, skip to 29:00.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>All we know for certain about Guardino&#8217;s Blazer is that it&#8217;s powered by a &#8220;built LQ9,&#8221; indicating the 6.0-liter Vortec V8 probably generates more than the 345 horsepower and 380 pound-feet of torque it was originally rated at.  Even so, it had its work cut out for it to beat the reported 346 horsepower and 389 pound-feet of the Tesla, which come on instantly through all four wheels.  For that reason, the Model 3 rockets ahead at the start of the race, making the win look like a done deal for the EV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>But Guardino gave it everything he had, sliding through the first corner before taking a wider exit to carry more speed into turn three.  By the time he made a lunge for the inside, it was all but over.  Guardino clung to the inside line, traveling a shorter distance to ultimately take the checked flag. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>As usual, victory wasn&#8217;t so much a matter of <em>what<\/em> was driven, but <em>how<\/em>.  Had the roles been reversed, one imagines things could&#8217;ve ended differently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p><em>Got a tip or question for the author?  You can reach them here: james@thedrive.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick car is nothing without an equally quick driver. So demonstrated the wheelman of the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer that dominated a Tesla Model 3 in a one-lap race that was caught on camera, earning their 15 minutes of fame in a video that has since gone viral. It takes a lot of gusto to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/watch-a-chevy-s-10-blazer-beat-a-tesla-model-3-in-a-one-lap-race\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch a Chevy S-10 Blazer Beat a Tesla Model 3 in a One-Lap Race<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17586,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dixon-scores-52nd-win-matches-mario-andretti\/","url_meta":{"origin":18906,"position":0},"title":"Dixon scores 52nd win, matches Mario Andretti","date":"July 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From the start, polesitter Herta was unthreatened, while Dixon swept across from the outside to ensure Newgarden couldn't sneak up from third to claim second. 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