You can find these type of topics in other forums like Corvetteforum, where they're are obsessed with 1/4 mile runs and etc. But this is a Rather new thing to Ferrari owners I suppose. You can post all your 488's fastest times here. 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1 mile or at least anything at all in a straight line.
That's a lot closer to what the 720s gets than anyone else has posted. It's also closer to what the car should be able to do given it's horsepower and weight. However, to be fair, the drag strip is below sea level and all cars that run there are faster than equivalent cars here in the US.
They say it's bone stock in the initial post. Second, a simple tune doesn't necessarily lower ET but it will increase trap speed. Lowering ET is a combination of things and increasing torque may be one of them but it's not enough on it's own. Getting a good 60ft time is important and this car is getting 1.7s which is pretty good for RWD. My 991tts could do 1.7s all day long and that wasn't very good for it but 1.5 was. In order to get 1.5 I had to have very specially good conditions of temperature and tire prep. Interesting that this post is several years old and is in the category of comedy, not sure what that is about but I tried to find faster 488 quarter mile times in the past and this never showed up in my searches possibly because of the categorization. What they might have done though to beef it up is run race gas.
I think you know what you are talking about. However, there is no doubt from the various forums out here that boosted cars with tunes improve their ETs - sometime dramatically - so IMO drag time videos are irrelevant by comparison even if the claim is stock. Unless you own both cars it is impossible to know. This will get worse with hybrids as simple over the air updates pump more current from the batteries. Add prep and tires and its just purely for entertainment but doesn't really make sense to me with an exotic even if it claims to be stock.
Yes, ET is often the measure of how good the driver is, tire type and track prep but torque is important and increasing boost helps that. The problem that increasing boost creates is loss of traction at the low revs in first and second gear. This guy did a good job of launching the car, better than I would but the really impressive number that shows the car is fast, 137mph trap speed. My heavily modded Porsche could only do 10.5 @ 137mph running 101 and getting about 20lb of overboost. That slip is shown first. Those were new PZeros with the N0 compound. My best ET was a couple weeks earlier on the county road where I go to practice drag racing, it's safe, lot's of people go out there because it's more or less a stub. There I was able to do a 10.4 at 131 on 93 octane with a 1.55s 60ft. So there I had less help from the race gas and got better traction on a worse surface. Go figure............ Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My 488 Best 1/4 10.8 218 km/h 1/2 16.8 263 km/h 100-200 5.4 All with launch control, on the road (not strip with glue)
Go search Dragtimes YouTube channel. He had some 488's back in 2017-2018. I think a 2019 showed best times at the drag strip with a 10.3 and was noted on Drag Times and a few other YouTube channels the 2019's were running better times.
Drag times are not for me - I only do track lap times (usually not that good, since I'm nowhere near a pro driver... I'm proud of my 1'30"03 time at Dijon-Prenois, with MPSS road tires though ). Still, I have a tentative 60-100 timing:
Same for me.... I prefer cornering! But they were posting 1/4 mile times so I posted about the Dragtimes YouTube channel
Hard to be impressed with 1/4 mile times with the world of EVs. I’m still a fan of Brooks and drag times but bragging rights with the times are not so relevant anymore.
