The car is bone stock, except for the sticky tires.
What does the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon share with the Ferrari F8 Tributo? Apart from the fact that they are available in red and have a boosted V8 engine, not much. There’s another thing that the two performance beasts have in common. Each can do a freakin’ wheelie on the drag strip. Really? Yeah, really.
It is highly unlikely that Ferrariengineers considered drag strip wheelies when designing the F8 Tributo. Although the Prancing Horse is better suited for a tight road course, it is no doubt that its twin-turbocharged V8 of 3.9-liters is capable of accelerating the supercar through quarter-miles with incredible speed. Ferrari claims it can reach 60 mph in just 2.9 seconds, and 211 mph straight-out thanks to its 720 horsepower (530kilowatts), which is mounted behind the driver. The F8 Tributo’s rear-biased weight distribution gives it some serious grip for hard launches, as the Dragtimes video demonstrates.
However, it’s not as easy as just putting the throttle down. The car was completely stock, and it ran at 138 mph in 10.33 seconds. It also had a impressive 60-foot time of 1.7 seconds. The Ferrari ran an identical race when it switched to Toyo Proxes R888R competition tire on the back. This was right down to the 1.7 second launch. With launch control enabled, the race mode runs were completed in race mode. However, with some tweaking of the Tributo’s many launch and suspension settings, the time was lowered to 10.12 with trap speed of 142 MPH and a 60-foot time of 1.67 seconds. The Ferrari could run a nine second race.
The F8 arrived at the track early in the morning, despite the track being very sticky. The Ferrari used a burnout feature that heats up the tires and launches at higher RPM to literally jump off the track, lifting the front wheels from the ground. The aggressive launch caused tire spin and made the run slower. However, it is possible to run nine seconds under ideal conditions and with a little more practice using the Tributo’s different drive modes.