{"id":89529,"date":"2014-01-21T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89529"},"modified":"2014-01-21T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:28:06","slug":"video-lamborghini-aventador-vs-ferrari-ff-drag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89529","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Lamborghini Aventador vs Ferrari FF Drag Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for us to drag race cars on a runway. But we&#8217;ve never done it at an active airport with passenger jets taking off and landing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>And so we leapt at the chance to take part in Race the Runway at Edinburgh Airport. The event, sponsored by Mercedes, was held to raise money for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice and the Scottish Burned Children&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<p>In total 25 cars, ranging from a Lamborghini Aventador to a TVR Tuscan, took part. Entrants were timed over a 1,350-metre course on one of the taxi runways.<\/p>\n<p>We would be driving an SLS GT, which, at 199mph, has the highest top speed of any current production Mercedes. So how did it fare against the competition? Watch the video and find out.<\/p>\n<p>The cars included:<\/p>\n<p>Lamborghini Aventador<br \/>\nFerrari FF<br \/>\nPorsche 911 Turbo (997)<br \/>\nLamborghini Gallardo Spyder<br \/>\nMercedes SL63 AMG Performance<br \/>\nMercedes SLS GT<br \/>\nNissan Skyline R33 GT-R<br \/>\nMercedes E63 AMG S<br \/>\nBMW M6<br \/>\nBMW M3 GTS<br \/>\nAudi RS6 (MkI)<br \/>\nTVR Tuscan<br \/>\nFerrari 599 GTB HGTE<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKpFrp974uo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for us to drag race cars on a runway. But we&#8217;ve never done it at an active airport with passenger jets taking off and landing in the background. And so we leapt at the chance to take part in Race the Runway at Edinburgh Airport. The event, sponsored by Mercedes, was held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,25,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-sports-car","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89530,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89529\/revisions\/89530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}