Dodge Demon Melts its Tires vs Tesla Model S P100D Ludicrous Drag Racing 1/4 Mile

Hey everybody, Brooks of Drag Times here. I got the race everyone's been wanting to see. We got a brand new Dodge Demon out here with the Tesla Model S P100D. Now let me get this out of the way first. I'm a huge Demon fan. I tried to order one, couldn't get one at MSRP, still was bidding on one on Ebay and went over. So before we get these done, I just want you to know I love the Demon and I want one. Now today we're doing a race kind of like what you would see on the street. Now the Demon requires a lot of stuff to get done to go 9.6 in the quarter mile. You need the skinnies on front, you need race gas in the tank, you need the race gas ECU, and we got this guy driving right through us. That's awesome. All right. All right, so what we got here is just a typical race what you would see on the street with a Demon running with the normal tires up front. Now actually, this Demon's got a full set of Hoosier slicks on the back, which can be interesting to see how it launches on the street. Now the Tesla obviously completely stock as it comes. We got it in Ludicrous Plus mode, all charged up. Obviously the Demon's a much faster car and it's going to blow right by it, but it's going to be interesting to see off the line if that car can hook, the Demon can hook versus the Tesla and see how long it takes to pass. Or maybe the Demon just walks away from it completely. It's going to be awesome. So we're going to do some revving with the Demon. Obviously I can't do that with the Tesla, so I lose the rev battle there. We're going to do a couple of test launches to see how we're going to do launch control on the Demon, and then we're going to head out and give him a run. Brand new Dodge Demon here. Pop the hood, check it out. What color is this? F8 green. Looks amazing. I don't think I've seen one that looks like this. This one's getting red and orange. So there we go. We got the Demon motor. We got the K&N intake there. 840 horsepower. But I think it's about 800 without the race gas tube. Is that right? It's 808. Right. Without the tune, drag. There we go. So we got 808 horsepower because we don't have race gas in, and it's just got the regular ECU. Now when he gets the crate back in, maybe we'll do some more runs when he can fill it up with some race gas and put the tune in as well. All right, go. Bam, that thing sounds amazing. Now we got the Tesla right here, and I'm, no revs on the Tesla. Either way, we got both cars ready to go. Let's do some test launches with the Demon to make sure it comes off the line pretty good with those big Hoosiers, and then we'll get them out and see what happens. Sweet cars up here. We got two GT3s we saw racing before, M6, and a B6 Alpina, and another M3 back there. We literally just got showered with, whoa, the tire's tough. All right, well, I think that's a pretty good warmup of the tires. I can't even see where the car's at. Oh, there he is. Wow. That thing was insane. We were literally getting pelted with tire pieces everywhere. Five-star applause for this guy. All right, so after doing the big donuts, tires got pretty hot. The pressure went way up. We couldn't get it to launch at all. Pressure was 31 PSI in these Hoosiers, so we dropped them down by 10 PSI. We're going to see if we can get the car to hook now. Better. Still spinning a lot. We're trying again with launch mode. Bump the torque down a little bit. Get that straight. That didn't stick at all. So it sticks at 100 miles an hour. I'm not sure. Try it one more time. All right, we've tried absolutely everything. The thing just makes too much power. It doesn't hook at all. We're going to give up and not even do it, but we're out here and we're all set up. So we're going to go ahead and give it a run against the Tesla from a dig. Not going to be pretty. And then we'll do it from a roll, and it's still having trouble hooking from a roll. And then maybe we'll do the 720S starting at like 90 miles an hour. We'll see. All right, you ready? One, two, go. All right, so we tried literally everything. And the car just doesn't hook. I think what happened is the big donut burnout thing actually took all the tread off the tires. And these tires are brand new. And the car had to be driven up here about, I don't know, 60 miles on these tires. They were a little overinflated, so it took all the tread off. You saw in the video, the Demon was spinning it off the line, a 2040 in a 60 roll. The Tesla definitely shouldn't be that much faster than this car. But we're going to give it a try. He's going to put the regular tires back on there, the drag radials. And I think the outcome will be much different. There's absolutely no point in trying the 720S. The 720S just won't even... I mean, even the Tesla was not great. But in reality, this is what it's like being on the street with a Demon. So we're going to try again next week with some drag radial tires that came on the car. Probably better suited for the street. And we'll try it again. Thanks for watching.