When Ford built the new BOSS 302 Mustangs for the 2012 model year, they built it with one purpose in mind; road racing. This is a car built and bred for the race track, even though the Mustang has long dealt with the stigma that it is a straight-line car only. And let’s be honest; the Mustang really does excel at the drag strip. But can the new BOSS work just as well on the drag strip as it does on the road course?

Hennessey Performance Engineering thinks so, and they’ve upgraded their 2012 Ford Mustang BOSS 302 Laguna Seca edition with a supercharger kit. That translates to a 10.9 second run down the quarter-mile.

Being that the Laguna Seca edition of the BOSS 302 is bred specifically for track racing, one might think that it wouldn’t be up to the task of drag racing. And indeed, the first video we saw of another supercharged Laguna Seca resulted in just an 11.9 second quarter mile run. We were disappointed by that performance…but we are delighted by this new video.

10.9 @ 130 mph is a much more respectable time for a supercharged BOSS Mustang. We’re thinking the biggest difference maker though wasn’t so much the driver as it was the tires. The first video featured a silver Laguna Seca running stock wheels and road course tires; this black BOSS has drag slicks in back and skinnies up front, which are much more conducive to drag racing. But does it defeat the point of having a BOSS 302 Laguna Seca? You tell us.