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 Stunticon 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

One of these days, Wildbreak! ONE OF THESE DAYS!Drag Strip, "Bee Cool"

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Maurice LaMarche (English), TBA (Japanese)

"All right funny men, I'll prove to you you're wasting your money."

Drag Strip borrowed Motormaster's Cybertronian technology 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

"You have just broken the camel's back with that straw. You have ridiculed my brother Stunticons. You have just made fun of something very big that's close to my heart."

Having gotten his hands on a Cybertronian relic, Drag Strip was pursued by the Autobots until he caught them in a methane explosion. He returned to Motormaster with the relic, which turned out to be a Gravitic Adjuster when he tried it out on Wildbreak. Sent to cause some havoc with the device, Drag Strip attacked a State Trooper station, successfully drawing out the Bee Team. Though the Adjuster gave him an edge, he was eventually defeated by the two Sideswipes (long story) and the Autobots relieved him of his new weapon. The Great Divide

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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"One a' these days..."

• Menasor (Team Combiner, 2017)

Released as part of the Team Combiner set along with Motormaster, Wildbreak, Heatseeker, and Slashmark, "Decepticon Dragstrip" is a Scout-sized figure that transforms from vehicle to robot in just a few simple steps. In robot mode, he has very limited articulation. He can convert into an arm for any Team Combiner set, although he usually forms Menasor's right arm.

• Drag Strip & Wildbreak (Crash Combiners, 2017)

"ONE OF THESE DAYS WILDBREAK, I'LL BE THE TORSO ONCE AGAIN!!!"

Part of wave 3 of Crash Combiner sets, Dragstrip comes in a two-pack with Wildbreak. He changes from robot to stunt car in a few simple steps. He features a spring-loaded transformation to legs mode when Wildbreak (or any torso figure) combines with him to form Dragbreak.

There appears to have been an error at some point in the development of this two-pack wherein Dragstrip and Wildbreak's colors have been swapped, not only robbing Dragstrip of his body and show-accurate role of torso in their combined form, but also the more 'traditional' Dragstrip vehicle mode (which is still inaccurate to Dragstrip's vehicle mode in the show).

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")