Yup. If you follow the tree lights (I’m assuming they were in sync for both lanes) you’ll see that when the last yellow for the right lane is still lit the tesla leaves. Never saw a red light but it sure looked like he left a skoosh early to me. Since it wasn’t a “real” race, maybe the red didn’t come on. Maybe the should have done it like the finals. Staged, one yellow, green. Gotta be on your toes when the yellow starts to fade, you go. Carefully.
I am thinking that the standard tires on the cars might have had something to do with it. I dunno. But he sure got a hole shot there.
One other. I wonder what the tire pressure was on the vette the first round. I would have dropped the pressure and got more rubber on the track.
If you put it on full screen and look at the timeslips shown at the end of the vid, you can see the driver “reaction time” was 3 tenths SLOWER for the Vette. Huge hole shot.
In drag racing, that’s forever.