Look at the road, he had already done that jaunt a few times before this video was shot. The road is full of skid marks from the wheels slipping before being caught by the traction control.
This car is absolutely traction limited. It should be able to post even better times with racing slicks.
It fell flat. Sometimes to make comedy you have to attempt new things and sometimes they miss wildly. I actually started the thread so I do know the reference.
Probably not sped up. What you're seeing is a sudden acceleration of the camera's viewpoint when panning to the left in order to keep up with the 1.9s to get to 60mph.