Dodge Challenger Hellcat Drag Races Built Viper, No Photo Finish Required

Some of you, as an important part of our office, will expect the Viper to leave the Challenger Hellcat trailing in its wake. After all, when you drive an early Viper and take on a Hellcat, your homework for such an encounter is one Google search away.

The two-door Hellcat, in factory stock form, will complete a quarter-mile sprint in 11.2 seconds, or, if the muscle machine has been gifted with drag radials, in 10.8 seconds. Make sure your senior V10 supercar is at least that quick and you'll be in for tons of fun. Who knows? People might even bet on you, as the underdog aura always draws such actions like a magnet.

Returning to the little exercise we dropped in the intro above, we hope you didn't talk to a friend and added money to the game. That's because this Viper is no winning horse.

As you'll be able to notice in the piece of footage at the bottom of the page, both cars do pretty much what their stock numbers dictate (the Viper might pack a few custom goodies, but these don't seem to make too much of a difference).

In fact, things look bad for the supercar even before the race kicks off. We're talking about the pre-brawl burnout - while the muscle car driver lights up the rear tires like any drag racer should, the guy in the Viper decides to go easy on the clutch with a move that barely manages to resemble a burnout.

However, in defense of early Vipers used for drag racing purposes, we'll remind you of the twin-turbo beast we showed you yesterday. You know, Barney, the Purple Viper that tries to kill its driver with no less than 1,900 ponies.