Watch Joe Biden Lay Rubber In Electrical Ford F-100 Restomod And Hit 118 MPH In Corvette Drag Race

Think about being probably the most highly effective man on the earth, however being powerless to drive your personal automobile. That’s a really actual downside for President Joe Biden, and a very merciless one as a result of he owns a shocking 1967 Corvette Sting Ray roadster.

Joe’s fairy godmother is Jay Leno, who lately received the president behind the wheel of a Ford’s Eluminator electromod pickup, and his Sting Ray, for an episode of Jay Leno’s Storage on CNBC the place we get to see POTUS vent all that frustration and race his Vette to a claimed 118 mph (190 km/h) in opposition to a C6.

You’re most likely aware of the Eluminator, even when Biden seems to not be. Unveiled at SEMA final 12 months to showcase Ford’s electrical crate motors, the truck is actually a 1978 F-100 full of the dual-motor, all-wheel drive powertrain and dashboard of a Mustang Mach-E GT Efficiency Version.

Biden likes the refinement of the electrical setup, however loves the response of the 480 hp (358 kW / 487 PS) motors extra, even mashing his proper foot into the bulkhead and chirping the tires to show his level. Let’s hope he’s mis-used his place to influence Ford boss Jim Farley to transform a number of outdated F-100s for public sale, as a result of because it stands the Elumintor is destined to stay a one-off idea.

Associated: European-Made EVs Might Obtain U.S. Federal Tax Credit

Elsewhere within the present Biden re-runs the Corvette drag race he had a number of years again with the late Colin Powell. The four-star common at all times felt Biden had jumped the beginning on that assembly so his son Michael jumps behind the wheel of the exact same C6 Corvette to reclaim the Powell household’s honor.

No matter your political persuasions, it’s arduous to not do some fist pump when Biden lights up the tires on the stainless Corvette he was given as a marriage current in 1967. It’s arduous to think about Britain’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, doing the identical, and even understanding how. That’s presuming the president’s minders really let him try this, after which race off with out carrying a helmet, because the fastidiously edited footage desires us to imagine.

It appears just like the C6 simply takes the win, as you’d count on given the fashionable Corvette’s stickier rubber and a probable 150+ hp (152 PS) true distinction between the optimistic 350 hp ( 355 PS) score of Biden’s Sting Ray and the extra correct 455 hp (461 PS) output of the newer automobile.

The speedo graphics overlaid on the video present Biden reaching 118 mph (190 km/h), which is sort of definitely inventive license, as a result of additionally they present him attending to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 3 seconds and 100 mph (161 km/h) in 5. Overlook spherical three, we are saying and convey on the Bugatti Chiron. Joe can take him.

You may try the total Corvette race at Street & Monitor