This V8 SUV didn’t just beat a Tesla once. It did it three times, and the internet can’t get enough.
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Charlie Guardino is a racing driver from Westbury, New York. His 1985 Chevrolet Blazer, with a V8 engine swap, was notorious on East Coast tracks long before it went viral for trouncing a Tesla.
The legendary race took place at Massachusetts’ 1/3-mile Seekonk Speedway. During a Spectator Drag event, various road-legal cars go wheel-to-wheel in single-lap shootouts. Guardino’s SUV is always a fan favorite. So when a Tesla sedan showed up to show off in 2022, he took on the EV.
@tberg.media posted the original video on TikTok and “broke the internet.” The vertical panning video is dizzying but shows Guardino’s strategy perfectly. The Tesla starts on the inside lane and launches much faster than the V8 Blazer. But it’s not a drag race—it’s a circle track. Guardino tries twice to take the inside line. The second time, he truly commits, nearly mowing the infield grass with his inside wheel. Here’s the result:
Guardino and his Chevy Blazer claim a ‘three-peat’
In the intervening years, Guardino’s built his raucous Blazer into a track monster. He’s also built up his own @BlazerMan38 account and joined the Circle Track Savages YouTube channel. But of course, fans wanted him to recreate the original Tesla race. So he took on a Model S Plaid at the longer Owosso Speedway. This time, the more experienced driver wouldn’t give Guardino the inside line—so he just decided to send it:
I suspect these videos have gone so viral because Teslas’ gnarly straight-line speed has them cleaning up at the drag strip. But their heavy weight means old ICE race cars—even motor-swapped Chevy Blazers—still stand a chance on the circle track. That said, I’d be very interested to see what Guardino could do with a Tesla with proper racing slicks if he ever hopped behind the wheel.
You can also see Guardino take on a third Tesla when the Circle Track Savages went to the Kalamazoo Speedway in Michigan in a multi-track race during the summer of 2025. That race is embedded below:
