The car is 3200 vs 4200 lbs. non-professional drivers. Auto vs manual. It's a drivers race. Get a good launch say 3500 rpm.. See who wins.

:iagree: I was not suggesting that he take it to the street. I only mentioned this because the race track is wide while the real world is narrow. I suggested auto cross.

Wait until the S5 is at the dealership for its first repair and then THE FOOT RACE IS ON!

Hey OP, I'm in Vegas myself. Let me know when this goes down so I can watch.

As for your question, I would put my money on the Audi for one reason. Traction. Z has horrible traction off the line while the Audi will have no issues at all. This will be even more pronounced at our crappy 1/4 mile track that we have here in Vegas. I get nothing but wheel hop in 1st and 2nd. Our track is badly prepped. Essentially this race will come down to who is the better driver but since he has an automatic and you have a manual he will have a much easier time of things. Not to mention AWD vs. RWD. How bad you get beat will depend on your launch. In a perfect world where drivers are the same and track conditions are perfect and you get a perfect launch the race would actually be pretty even.

Personally I'd be more interested to see who wins in a rolling race. Just be careful on the 15 fwy heading to the track. After you pass Lake Mead exit it gets rather open and hardly anyone is on the road; Lots of rolling races happen here on the way to the track. Wouldn't want you to get a ticket

Whoever gets the jump should win.

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im interested to see how this turns out. Especially given how slow the MT Z is, the s5 is likely to be at 60mph before the Z even gets rolling. Golly the manual sucks on this car.

or this ;)

since his will be in the burn in period - i say jump on it :)

Lol and to some 800/mo on a car is nothing. To each his own.

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What tires are you each on? His presumably stock. As others have said, driver's race, you do have a shot. Warm tires and practice launches :P

Yep. :iagree:

Well, if you got $6k to blow, 4.36 gears, a real locker LSD, sticky summer tires/drag radials (if I was living in LV, NV I would always run drag radials) should put the odds of winning in your favor easily.
I raced at LVMS, nice quarter mile track.

All you said was that you have is Stillen Intake. Get some HFC, CBE and good tires at least.

And practice the lauch, practice, practice, practice...the Audi All-Wheel drive launch is no joke!

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Also, OP, it's pretty simple what you have to do ...

Get in the Z, push the gas pedal about half way down, and drive it somewhere to trade it in on a faster car.

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GTR, please. :tup:

IS-F.. :tup: