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So it was time for acceleration. Here I had hoped for a 0-100 kph time starting with the digit 3. The holy grail in a way. In theory my HP and weight should be able to do it I think. I was disappointed.

This Pantera is damn difficult to launch. I've had a lot of dragrace experience, but mostly with 450 HP musclecars, where, besides getting them to hook up, the rest was easy. In the Pantera, I had a couple of challenges. First to find the right revs/clutch movement to hook up. Felt really slow, but wheelspin killed any good run, I had to get away without wheelspin. Next after a very fast run through 1st gear, getting the lever out of first was only possible when not accelerating, when accelerating it felt locked into 1st gear. So had to ease of the gas. Then the last challenge, the Z travel from 1st to 2nd. I had my eye on the shifter everytime, didn't want to hit the wrong gear, and it took forever to get from 1st to 2nd that way. I'd estimate half a second.

My first run 0-100 kph (not 0-60 mph) was 5.0 seconds. Then a few 4.8 second runs while practising, still with the occasional aborted run when I didn't get it right. Got down to steady 4.5s and in the end after playing with my ICE ignition, I got 4.4s.

(Picture: Ignore the 0-100-0, didn't try an acc and decel together. 0.7s 50-70 is quite impressive IMHO)