Watching This Ford Mustang Race Car Go From 25th To 1st At The Daytona 24 Is Immensely Satisfying

Ride onboard this Mustang as driver Olly Bryant picks off the competing cars one by one, eventually reaching first place

Matt Robinson

Updated: 19 Jan 2016

Via Reddit Cars

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

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Muscle cars can’t what?

Well they can, only most American cars from that era couldn’t do it that good. The roadgoing version would never be able to do this as they weren’t made for this purpose.

There’s a difference between muscle cars and trans am… This is a trans am.

This isn’t stock obviously.

Banked turns are cheating :P

He Shelby passing you.

His technique is fordmidable

That car has a Carrol Shelby signature, its just blessed

Take that Muscle cars can’t turn trend!

Purpose built for racing has nothing to do with stock muscle cars and drag built muscle cars.

Still doesn’t make up the fact that road going ones can’t turn

It can. Its just that its not a bloody Lotus Elise

I just drove a road 1965 mustang yesterday and I can say it was a handful, to make a simple left turn at a stoplight took almost 2 complete turns of the wheel and 2 lanes 😂

Crazy that it’s actually overtaking modern cars like the Cayman

Why are there modern cars racing during a classic event?

Agree

It’s the only practical way to do it. If they held a separate race for every class of car there would be way too many races to be practical.

Cause Murica ……. hmm

Run an upspecced racer with considerable price markup not to mention unknown mods over the standard (considerable) Shelby mods in the hands of someone that is clearly a very good driver in that pack to demonstrate how all muscle cars are true handling masterpieces. Seems legit! And all along that guy is just having a blast doing what he loves in one of motorsports heavy hitters acknowledged by everyone.