Straight from the race’s official YouTube channel here’s a collection of videos bringing you the highlights from yesterday’s 24 Hours of Le Mans won by the #19 Porsche 919 Hybrid.
The first clip, a 20 minute special, includes podium celebrations from all four classes as well. Everyone’s a winner!
Take the sophisticated power of a BMW i8 and a Lamborghini Huracan and see how they go against the brawn of a Ford Mustang and a Dodge SRT Hellcat. Imagine you’re doing this and imagine that you’ve got four days and 1300 miles to work out what’s what.
Then imagine you’ve got to publish a video to YouTube that brings your experience to the world, brings us along for the ride.
Imagine how disappointed your friends and family would be if all you came up with was this 3 minute 40 second clip.
We like Car, we think it’s a good publication and while acknowledging they’ve got real magazines to sell we also think they should watch a few Chris Harris videos.
Otherwise they may as well not waste their production resources if this is all they’re going to give us with a tasty set of ingredients like this.
The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat brings with it a totally awesome name, Hellcat, and the mine’s better than yours claim that it’s the fastest and most powerful sedan [Clarkson] in the woooorld [/Clarkson].
To back up that claim the SRT Hellcat’s 6.2 litre supercharged V8 snorts out a mammoth 707hp (527kW). At 880Nm torque is hardly lightweight either. Coupled to an 8-speed auto the Hellcat does the standing quarter mile in 11 seconds flat and has a top speed of 204mph (328km/h).
Conspicuously, a 0–100km/h time, or even a 0–60mph time, has not been nominated in the text below from Dodge. A bit of research comes up with a 3.7 second answer to the 0–60mph question. Yeah that is pretty fast. Although the Porsche Panamera Turbo S reaches the mark in 3.2 seconds, but is 0.5s slower over the quarter mile.
As well as its fastest and most powerful claims the Hellcat proves the adage that the red one is faster. Next year, when the “sinister” looking Hellcat goes on sale, it will be supplied with two key fobs. One black, the other red. It’s only the red key fob which will provide full access to the car’s peak power and torque. It’s not clear how much the black fob limits power but it’s an interesting approach nonetheless.
We’re unlikely to see the Hellcat on the prowl in Australia, but that 6.2 litre Hemi engine will no doubt find its way into a Chrysler 300C SRT. The question is, will it have all 707hp?
Like us you probably haven’t had a chance to duck over to Europe to check out the Geneva Motor Show. So here’s the first of a two part series bringing you a selection of the cars on show. Here we start with Alfa Romeo and go through to Lexus.
Following news earlier in the month that the Dodge Viper ACR lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a staggering 7 minutes 12.13 seconds we bring you the documentary evidence. GT racer Dominik Farnbacher was at the wheel and posted the time on 14 September 2011.
The time is being claimed as a production car record; the merits of which can always be debated. For example, the Viper ACR is no longer in production. That said, the car used for this lap was believed to be in completely standard trim.
A brief statement from SRT is available after the break.
[Source: ViperHQ]