

He was voiced by the late Ron Gans, who also voiced Armus in Star Trek: The Next Generation.ĭrag Strip first appeared in the Marvel UK story "Second Generations", as part of a vision from the Matrix of the future of the Transformers which was intercepted by Shockwave. He last appeared in "The Return of Optimus Prime", where he was among those infected by the Hate Plague and was one of the infected Transformers arrived at Metroplex to destroy Optimus Prime until got cured by the Matrix of Leadership. Drag Strip and the other Stunticons were later on guard at Trypticon and ended up fighting Rodimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. In the aftermath of The Transformers: The Movie, Drag Strip was among the Decepticons who went into exile on Chaar, first agreeing to help the Quintessons and then becoming part of Galvatron's attack on Earth. While the Autobots impersonated them to get close to Megatron (with Mirage posing as Drag Strip), the quintet managed to escape and expose the impersonation but were unable to stop the Autobots destroying the weapon. Drag Strip was subsequently taken out by Warpath and captured with the other Decepticons.
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However, their mission brought them into conflict with the new Autobot subgroup, the Aerialbots, and they were defeated by the combined might of Superion and Omega Supreme.ĭrag Strip continued to appear with Megatron's troops and had a large road in "Masquerade", in which he and Dead End stole a generator from a military base for Megatron's secret weapon. One of their first tasks was to raid a military base, which the Autobots were blamed for. Megatron wanted a group of Decepticons who could operate on land so had Rumble steal cars which he reformatted into Drag Strip and the other Stunticons, giving them life with Vector Sigma. Drag Strip first appeared in the two-part second season story "The Key to Vector Sigma".
