Street racing fantasies usually end one of two ways: you get away with it, or you do not. Two drivers outside of Houston recently found out which category they fell into, and it was not the fun one. Harris County Constable Precinct 4 deputies spotted two cars going at it on the highway in the 24500 block of Northwest Freeway and promptly put a stop to the whole situation before it went any further.
The cars involved were not exactly grocery-getters. One was a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 finished in gray with twin white stripes, packing a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 that cranks out 760 horsepower and 625 lb-ft of torque. The other was an Audi RS6 Avant, the kind of sleeper-wagon that fools everyone at a stoplight, running a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 with 621 horsepower and 627 lb-ft of torque. Between the two cars, there was somewhere north of 1,300 combined horsepower looking for trouble on a public highway.
Harris County Constable Mark Herman shared photos of the stop on Facebook, confirming that deputies took both suspects into custody for racing on the highway. The images showed both cars looking very expensive and very pulled over, which is never a good combination for the drivers involved…