Mustang Survives Street Racing, Camaro Not So Lucky

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but two pony cars line up for a street race, and one of them crashes. When the Mustang comes to a stop, it says, “Hey, that’s my job!”

That’s because the surprising, and yet still somehow predictable result of a street race that was shared to Facebook by IAmTaiBoogie, is that the Chevy was the one that crashed in a video that sees a fourth-generation Mustang lining up against a sixth-generation Camaro on a public road.

As with a lot of details in this video, it’s hard to say exactly what’s going on with these two cars, but the steelies and the hood scoop on the Camaro, in addition to the sound of the engine, would suggest that it’s modified. As countless videos have proven, though, pony cars don’t really need to be tuned to be too much for their drivers. So whatever’s happening under the hoods of these cars, the result is the same.

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The Camaro launches well, taking an early lead over the Mustang, but it quickly starts pointing leftward, toward the person filming and at least one other bystander. It sounds like the driver gets out of the throttle, and actually saves the slide, but then jumps back on the gas, turning that save into an overcorrection, and sending the car flying to the right, towards the Ford.

The Mustang driver, playing against type here, seems to observe all of this happening, and you can just see them jumping on the brakes and screeching to a halt before the Camaro can run into them, proving once and for all that it’s not always the Mustang driver who is responsible for the crash—though, I suppose, everyone in a street race bears some responsibility for the stupidity that follows from it.

Although the Chevy driver manages avoiding the pedestrians, and the Mustang driver succeeds at avoiding the Camaro, all is not well and does not end well. Unfortunately, the Camaro goes spearing off the road and into a row of trees, sending it spinning, and completely removing its front bumper.

The video is too short to really assess the full extent of the damage, and there is no information about the condition of the driver. Logic would dictate, though, that both the car and the driver are pretty shaken up after this incident. If you needed any more evidence that street racing is a bad way to spend your time, here it is.