Boosted 2017 F-150 beats Hellcat, Corvette…others

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No replacement for big displacement?

After a 2017 F-150 XLT 4Ă—4 with a 3.5-liter EcoBoost got some help from Brew City Boost, which included a methanol injection, the truck repeatedly ate up the ÂĽ mile drag at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minn. and reportedly beat a ZL1 Camaro, Hellcat Challenger, C5 Corvette and others.

Video below shows the F-150 shaming these cars during BIR’s Wednesday Night Drags, a weekly event that allows anyone with a valid driver’s license, a helmet (Snell 2010 or newer) and a street legal vehicle to try the drag strip, autocross or drifting.

Brew City Boost posted its time slip on Facebook (shown below). A respectable 12.429 seconds at 108 mph in the ÂĽ mile is not exactly slow, especially from a pickup.

Still, if you watch the video, it looks like competing drivers were off to a slow start against the F-150. The Hellcat isn’t exactly known for being sluggish. Car and Driver reported that a 2016 model finished the quarter-mile “in 11.7 seconds at 126 mph, with the car’s massive supercharger whining like a hive of angry bees the entire time.”

Road and Track reported that the Brew City Boost-tuned F-150 was running “on E50 fuel and with 18 psi of boost.”