Who’d win in a race, Dominic Toretto in his 1970 Dodge Charger or Lightning McQueen in himself?

polygon.com:

The auto-racing world is full of legends, from the bootleggers who founded NASCAR to Formula 1’s Lewis Hamilton. But at the end of the day, every race can only have one winner. This makes it the perfect arena to determine which racing icon is best: Vin Diesel’s Fast and Furious character Dominic Torretto or Lightning McQueen from the Cars movies.

While a showdown between the Corona-sipping family man and the Piston Cup’s greatest champion may seem unlikely, we think it’s important to acknowledge all kinds of racers, and pit them against each other in dangerous competitions that they were absolutely not designed for. So in the spirit of competition we’ve set out to figure out which is better, cinema’s ultimate driver or a sentient car voiced by Owen Wilson.

In one lane, we have Polygon’s resident Cars enthusiast Petrana Radulovic making the case for the one and only Lightning McQueen (for the record, he is not any car in particularly, though he does seem to have some characteristics of a Dodge Viper). In the other is Austen Goslin, who will do as #family does and boost for Dominic Toretto in his 1970 Dodge Charger R/T.

Lightning McQueen and Dom come from two completely different racing worlds, so in the interest of debate, we had to figure out a way to standardize the race. So we took a leaf from the underrated film Cars 2, in which the race cars compete on a track with three different environments, so open-wheeled race cars and stock cars end up being even in terms of skills and weaknesses.

So, in this competition, we have three different rounds: A street race, a Daytona-style 500 mile race, and finally, a straight-up drag race.

Petrana: Unfortunately, during a street race, my boy is at a severe disadvantage because he