[DGatzby]

I have to agree, the numbers seem to be "skewed" to me. Although I wasn't there myself.....I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night

Ha, I love it. Maybe someday one of those mile long contests will prove more.

 

[DGatzby]

Thanks OP for posting up some car info. Looks like our Hellcat has about 150 more ft-lb than anything for starters. The Porsche with the turbo has max torque posted up at 2100 rpm. The Lambo and the Ferarri were no doubt turning at high RPM's, they have HP peaks at the top of 8250, but we all know max torque should be at 5250 or so. So their max torque numbers happened well below the top of the RPM range. The Porsche is strange, it should have been turning below or around 6000 like the Cat, at top speed, but it's engine specs are much different.

So the Hellcat was not tangled with lack of traction at high speed, has a forgiving suspension on the rough road on the ring, obviously shifted 6-7 or engaged eight, but I doubt it, and has gobs of torque and high end horsepower. The pilot had large balls, set that wheel in the correct spot, had a good feel for the Challenger and on the ring they were not worried about running out of road. He or she just hammered it until they lost their nerve. I can't believe my brother Hellcat owners doubting this or presupposing some sort of a fraud is set. Why would a European rag lie or somehow misrepresent? What purpose would that serve? None of us or straight line testing can duplicate that trick. But as I posted before all the cars were in the same test and our Cat was on top, what is wrong with that? How many have either posted or noticed how our cars pull at high speed against about anything??

 

[DGatzby]

The FCA Engineering staff had the last laugh looking over at the Lambo and Ferarri engineers with their sub $100k machine. Knowing Italians, being one myself, they will revisit this test again. Fun part is we know FCA can uncork more power cheap for the future tests.

 

[DGatzby]

That Nardo Ring has some interesting physics. Go read about it. They can run flat out, and it has big time banking. No matter, it is relative, they all were tested at the same facility. I imagine the Porsche ran out of gears and hence maxed out. I am too lazy to go look at gear ratios, maybe someone can do that. I wonder what gear they used for the max spoed in the hellcat? If it is physically easier to make the car go faster because of the properties of the ring, they may have been able to shift to 7th gear? That would get a going faster. What do ya think?

 

[DGatzby]

WOW! Not much else to say, these things are brutes.