Watch World’s Greatest Drag Race 8 in Miniature

We love putting on World’s Greatest Drag Race every year as part of our Best Driver’s Car competition. But perhaps just as much, we love it when our videos inspire others to create homages like this stop-motion reenactment of World’s Greatest Drag Race 8.

MotorTrend fan and die-cast car collector Emmanuel Otuonye assembled most of the lineup from this year’s drag race and painstakingly recreated the quarter-mile sprint on his kitchen floor—in a couple cases nearly shot for shot. There are a few substitutions, including a Ford GT standing in for the Aston Martin Vantage and a Maserati GranTurismo in place of the Kia Stinger GT, but most of the major players are there. There’s a McLaren 720S, Porsche 911 GT2 RS, Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and of course the 2018 BDC-winning Lamborghini Huracan Performante. The cars are a mix of 1:36 and 1:38 scale models.

In order to faithfully replicate World’s Greatest Drag Race 8 on a miniature scale, Emmanuel says he watched the original race at least 25 times. And though the clip is only 16 seconds long, he says shooting it took about 45 minutes. That’s in addition to the time it took to reference the original video for car spacing and camera angles. Emmanuel isn’t new to stop-motion, as he regularly posts videos on his Instagram account. We might be biased, but we think this WGDR tribute is his best work yet. Take a look for yourself in the video below and be sure to give him a follow on Instagram. If for some reason you haven’t seen World’s Greatest Drag Race 8 yet, scroll to the bottom and watch that first.

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