Front Wheel Drive Drag Racers

I don’t know about any of you but im really bored of seeing FWD cars mostly VW’s with hugely wide wheels on the back and smaller ones up front. Then a while ago I saw this;

It looks very silly but at the same time its just brlliant. Looks like a real life Hotwheels car, or even, if you remember, Carlos Fandango! It got me thinking about when I went to Santa Pod a month or so ago for the Retro Show and the day before it was Rotorstock, so all kind of silly fast Japanese machinery was running down the strip. Included in them were two very fast Honda Civics that were getting early 11′s and late 10′s consistently. I was stunned that something FWD could get enough grip to post times like that. Being a firm rear wheel drive fan it did make me look at shopping trolleys in a whole new light.

So I did some research today and found a whole load of FWD drag racers and they even have several pro FWD series. None of them look quite as mental as the Golf above, thats not to say they dont look mental, but they manage to get 15 inch wide wheels under actually arches! Here are some of my favourites I found

Of course i’m not going to forget videos, that would be criminal!