{"id":80352,"date":"2021-07-02T07:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=80352"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T14:31:40","slug":"electric-ford-mustang-cobra-jet-1400-wows-at-nhra-norwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/electric-ford-mustang-cobra-jet-1400-wows-at-nhra-norwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 Wows at NHRA Norwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Courtesy of Ford Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ford’s Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 set records when it debuted, running a quarter-mile in 8.27 seconds at 168 miles per hour, reaching 1,502 peak wheel horsepower in private testing in September 2020. Now, it’s proving it’s mettle in a public setting.<\/p>\n

During the recent Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio, NHRA Nitro Funny Car racer Bob Tasca III piloted the the Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 to a run of 8.26, 167 mph during an exhibition pass, setting a new electric drag racing record in an exhibition pass. He then followed that up later in the day with a 8.12 at 171.97 mph. You can see both passes on the NHRA website, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tasca is no stranger to the Mustang’s might. He’s the regular Nitro Funny Car pilot of the Motorcraft\/Quick Lane Mustang, ranking first in the 2021 NHRA driver standings as of this past weekend.<\/p>\n

The Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 was by Ford Performance in parallel to the Mustang Mach-E 1400 prototype to “demonstrate Ford\u2019s technological capabilities and innovation skillset in EV technologies.”<\/p>\n

“Since revealing the car, we\u2019ve continued to fine-tune it and now know we’re just scratching the surface of what we may be able to achieve with this much electric horsepower in a drag racing setting,\u201d said Mark Rushbrook, global director, Ford Performance Motorsports.<\/p>\n

Cascadia Motion powers the Cobra Jet 1400 via PN-250-DZR inverters coupled to a pair of DS-250-115s, giving four motors total and spinning at up to 10,000 revolutions per minute. These motor-inverter packages run at 800 volts and up to 700 amps, with maximum output of 350kW per motor.<\/p>\n

The powerplant is certainly doing it’s work, along with an expert driver, proving that an electric drag race future has massive potential for thrills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Tasca III pilots the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 to a record setting electric pass at the recent Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029,3399,22],"tags":[5624,1621,8512,1803,892,7,4640],"class_list":["post-80352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","category-nhra","category-event-coverage","tag-bob-tasca-iii","tag-electric-drag-racing","tag-ford-mustang-cobra-jet-1400","tag-ford-performance","tag-mustang","tag-nhra","tag-summit-racing-equipment-nhra-nationals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wdmp_200519_01177-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-kU0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80354,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80352\/revisions\/80354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}