Can A Grand Cherokee SRT Beat A Challenger Hellcat In A Drag Race?

With four-wheel drive traction off the line, does the less powerful Grand Cherokee SRT stand a chance against a Challenger Hellcat?

Matt Robinson

10 Jul 2017

While we’d very much like to see a Challenger Hellcat take on the monstrous new Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk (and that’ll surely happen as soon as the first press cars arrive), we get the feeling it’d be a bit of a walkover. What we have here on the other hand has the potential to be a little closer.

While the Jeep is much slower and less powerful than the Hellcat on paper, the Dodge is notoriously difficult to launch cleanly owing to its 697bhp being channelled through relatively modest 275-width rear tyres. The track used by The Fast Lane Car isn’t exactly long, either, further helping the Jeep.

So, does the four-wheel drive car stand a chance? Time to find out…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Time to dig through my photos and find something that might be top 10 worthy! Here’s something extraordinarily random!

waiting for a Demon vs Trackhawk drag race

People talk about computers being too assisted, the challenger didn’t add any wheelspin…

????? And your stance on that is????

Speirs intensifies

I was not expecting that. I thought the Hellcat would lead from the start. But it seems that AWD gives a bigger advantage than the weight difference, power and lower center of gravity. Looks like what happens when you race a Tesla against a petrol car (the Jeep being the Tesla).