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's a familiar scene, two testosterone-fuelled drivers line up at a set of traffic lights and prepare to settle who is the best in a drag race.

As children and cyclists cross the road in The Woodlands, Houston, the drivers of the $40,000 C5 Corvette and $45,000 C6 Corvette revved their engines as they waited for the lights to change.

Both cars accelerate rapidly as the lights switch green, racing across the junction side by side.

But as the video footage shows, instead of one motorist emerging triumphant, both were left red-faced as one lost control, swerved into the other and sent both of them crashing into trees.

Drunken_Master wrote::lol:

How the strawberry float did the guy lose control on a relatively straight road?

Beans wrote:Americans

OnlyShallow wrote:Americans in fast cars and slight bends don't go together.

The driver was distracted by a low flying pelican and dropped his cell phone

Fatal Exception wrote:American cars "Oh gooseberry fool a slight bend".

DarkRitual wrote:The driver in the video is also an idiot for driving and recording something.

chalkitdown wrote:

DarkRitual wrote:The driver in the video is also an idiot for driving and recording something.

They drive on the left-hand side of the car in America. Presumably it's the passenger on the right doing the recording.