Supercars Got To Race A Plane At Local Arkansas Car Show

Normally, a car zooming down nan runway arsenic an airplane approaches would origin a go-around aliases a crash. But here, nan title betwixt a car and a level was nan full point. A few fortunate group sewage to do conscionable that earlier this month, reports 5NEWS, and they didn't moreover person to beryllium NASCAR drivers.

The unorthodox races took spot astatine Cars vs. Planes, a car show astatine nan Springdale Municipal Airport successful northwest Arkansas. Summit Aviation and car arena organizer Spectre.nwa teamed up to clasp a car show connected nan airport's ample magnitude of ramp space. That, successful itself, would make for a beautiful cool event. Then nan organizers decided to put connected a spectacle and induce a fewer group to resistance title an airplane down nan runway.

While nan title was nan main event, location was besides a decent-sized car show to cheque out, arsenic good arsenic a two-step rev contest. It was a awesome occurrence pinch thousands of group attending, according to a spectre.nwa Instagram post.

Three supercars sewage nan opportunity to title against an Extra 300L, an aerobatics level pinch a 300-horsepower Lycoming AEIO-540 engine, according to AOPA. Its ground-based opponents consisted of a Maserati MC20 Cielo, an Audi R8, and a McLaren 600LT Spider. The Extra was already successful nan air, and each car sewage nan awesome to spell arsenic it flew supra nan runway. I'm honestly not judge what nan nonstop rules were, and I really don't care, because really awesome is it to watch a supercar and a stunt level blast down nan runway astatine nan aforesaid time?

While this isn't nan first plane vs. car race we've seen, it's ace cool to spot an arena for illustration this taking spot astatine a section municipal airport, wherever anyone tin attend. And erstwhile I opportunity local, I mean section to me. Spectre.nwa says, "We're already difficult astatine activity readying nan adjacent one," and I'd emotion to beryllium there.