Dragstrip (WFC)

The name or term "Drag Strip" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Drag Strip (disambiguation).

Dragstrip is a Decepticon from the Aligned continuity family.

"Wildbreak, my Pebbles!"

Dragstrip (or Drag Strip) is always looking for a way to get ahead. Vicious and opportunistic, it doesn't take much for him to set his sights on higher and higher prizes... even if it means selling out his fellow Stunticons. He's not the brightest or the strongest Decepticon around, but he's just bright enough and just strong enough to be a major pain in the rear axle. And with a nitro-powered booster-rocket available in both vehicle and robot mode, chasing him is a risky prospect.

Often he finds himself paired with the considerably weaker-strutted Wildbreak, who he has to browbeat and threaten on a regular basis to get their job done. When the two combine into "Dragbreak", Dragstrip is the one in command of the combiner mode's motor functions. The two of them can combine further with their fellow Stunticons to form Menasor.

I can win this war by myself! Ha ha!Dragstrip, War for Cybertron

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Maurice LaMarche (English)

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Drag Strip borrowed Motormaster's Cybertron tech detector, intending to use it to find something to get himself in his boss's good graces. He and Wildbreak headed to the human city of West Rock and broke into a cache of Cybertronian loot. Despite a few minor setbacks involving Drag Strip being frozen solid, they were packing to leave when Bumblebee's team turned up. The two Cons eventually managed to give them the slip, but discovered that the Autobots had shut off the only bridge accessing the city. The pair merged into Dragbreak to fight the Autobots atop a parking building — though initially successful, they were ultimately defeated when Bumblebee dropped the roof on them, but escaped after the damaged parking structure partially collapsed. Bee Cool

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)

Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!

Voice actor: Eric Artell

Dragstrip is an unlockable character for the Nintendo DS version of War for Cybertron (Decepticon version), unlocked by finding a disc in the mission "The Attack of Iacon" (requires Flying class character). Like the other unlockable characters, he can replace any of the other Decepticons in the campaign mode.

War for Cybertron - Autobots/Decepticons

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Pow! Right in the kisser!

Dragstrip does not appear in the campaign of Fall of Cybertron. However, he is available in multiplayer.

Fall of Cybertron

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

Dragstrip appears as an Escalation only character. His default weopon is the Neutron Assault Rifle.

Rise of the Dark Spark (console)

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

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• Decepticon Dragstrip (Team Combiner, 2017)

• Decepticon Dragstrip & Wildbreak (Crash Combiners, 2017)

Notes

• Drag Strip's portrayal in Robots in Disguise owes something to legendary actor and comedian Jackie Gleason, in particular his character of Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners. Thus Drag Strip's frequent utterance of Ralph's threatening catchphrase "One of these days..."
• Dragstrip's parts are available in Fall of Cybertron multiplayer, classified as Slayer-type components for the Infiltrator class (although his wheels can also be used by Destroyers).

Foreign names

• Russian: Gonki (Fall of Cybertron, Гонки, "Race"), Ruchnik (Rise of the Dark Spark, Ручник, "Hand-Brake")