The channel will provide coverage of Friday and Saturday qualifying and Sunday eliminations for each. NHRA and Fox Sports jointly announced that starting in 2016 the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series will be televised by Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Given the street tires on these machines, as well as the level of muscle, the two decided to duke it out using rolling starts, with the Z06 serving as the camera car. The 2016 season was to be the final year of a five-year rights extension deal that took effect in 2012. This Z06 comes in all motor trim, which means it packs a monstrous intake (you can't miss this one), an exhaust setup that skips one or two parts, which have been deemed unnecessary, as well as a lightened flywheel with a twin-disc clutch.
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As for its opponent, we're talking about the owner of a C6 Corvette Z06 who decided to make the most out of the 7-liter LS7 V8 under the hood. The dragster is characterized by a long nose (the Top Fuel car is usually 25 feet long, nose to tail), with an open wheel format, a large power plant, and runs on a mix of methanol and nitro methane.
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The 2016 Camaro SS in question is gifted with a 100 shot of nitrous, a custom exhaust and the mandatory ECU remap. The dragster is a special body/style of race car which competes in the Top Fuel and Top Alcohol classes of amateur and professional drag racing. As it often happens, this race saw the participants heading to Mexico, where such shenanigans will bring you considerably less than the jail time you can expect when pulling such shenanigans on US streets. Well, that moment has arrived and we are now bringing you one of the first 2016 Camaro SS street races. While we're not endorsing street racing in any way, we knew we had to be prepared for the day when 2016 Camaro owners would start to battle it out on the street.
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Thanks to the hefty potential of the Corvette-borrowed LT1 V8 and its noticeable weight savings, the SS incarnation of the sixth-gen Camaro has even managed to slightly outperform the 'Vette on the dyno, causing quite a stir online. Once the first serious setups were complete, the cars hit the drag strip, with everything happening at a pace that would easily leave the S550 Mustang behind.