TV shows and magazines just love to race super fast cars versus military airplanes. That’s great and all, but seriously, it’s a game at best. Comparing two land vehicles is more of an apple-to-apple thing. Here, our friends at ACE Performance, the Northeast dealer of the Ariel Atom, took their own Ariel Atom Spec racer, put it on winter tires that were studded with Woody’s Grip-It Twist screws, and drag raced a Polaris 800 Rush Pro-S snowmobile on an ice runway in Alton Bay, New Hampshire, the only FAA approved airport on ice in the contiguous United States.
Who would win in a drag race between an Ariel Atom and a snowmobile on an ice runway?
By Kamil Kaluski
East Coast Editor. Races crappy cars and has an unhealthy obsession with Eastern Bloc cars. Current fleet: Ford Bronco, Lexus GX 470, and a Buick Regal crapcan racecar.
Ross Ballot
In case you were wondering, “WTH are Woody’s Grip-It Twist screws?”, wonder no more:
http://www.woodystraction.com/tire-stud-grip-it-screw
As with anything involving cars, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TIRES!
That’s an awesome video, by the way. Production values are quite nice.
Why not with proper rally studs?
http://en.best-of-rallylive.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/bestofrallylive/actualites/ce-demi-millimetre-qui-fait-toute-la-difference/117500-1-eng-GB/Studs-can-0.5mm-make-a-difference_articlethumbnail.jpg
Just a wild guess here, but the video might be promoting Woody’s Grip-It™ Screws.
If they used a different sled, it would have won. The Rush is a dog on the top end. The Arctic Cat 9000 (the 2015 version of the F1100 Turbo) have 180+ HP right out of the box. An older Thunder Cat with the triple could probably do it too. I LOVE the Atoms but really…
About a 98 vintage Tcat 1000 two stroke with proper track studding would have dispatched the Atom. They were wild machines; the Kawi Mach III of the snowmobile world.