Have you ever wondered whether a road car (albeit a highly modified one) can keep up with a GT3 race car across a quarter-mile drag race and rolling race?
Well, wonder no more. We’ve lined up a beastly 1200hp RAM 1500 TRX, which is both twin-turbocharged and supercharged, alongside a Ferrari 296 GT3 race car, which is currently doing duty in the GT World Challenge.
The RAM is tuned by Dontex Performance, while the Ferrari is being raced by the Arise Racing GT team.
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The cars
1200hp Ram TRX
Tuned by Dontex Performance, this RAM TRX is not only supercharged, but twin-turbocharged.
It makes around 1200hp (over 880kW of power) and we’ve fitted the full-size pickup with drag radials to ensure it gets some form of traction. But while it makes around 1200hp, it’s both heavy and not very aerodynamic. So this will be a close one!
Without the Dontex mods, the standard RAM TRX packs a supercharged 6.2-litre V8 producing 523kW of power and 882Nm of torque.
Ferrari 296 GT3 race car
Unlike the 296 GTB road car, the GT3 racer doesn’t use hybrid technology for an acceleration boost. Instead, it employs a twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 and sends torque to the rear wheels.
It pumps out 447kW of power and 712Nm of torque, and weighs just 1250kg — compared to around 3000kg for the RAM.
The results
There’s no prize for guessing how the standing-start drag race went. The RAM comprehensively demolished the Ferrari.
| Car | 0-100km/h | 80-120km/h | 0-200km/h | 0-400m (quarter-mile) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1200hp RAM TRX | 3.1s | 1.69s | 9.77s | 10.71s @ 208.18km/h |
| Ferrari 296 GT3 race car | 4.46s | 1.77s | 10.86s | 11.75s @ 209.81km/h |
In fact, the race series this particular car competes in only has rolling starts, so the team needed time to finetune the car to get its launch performance sorted. Even then there wasn’t enough traction to get it off the line cleanly.
It didn’t help that the surface of our runway has some very loose gravel and that the car was running wets…
That all changed with the rolling start, though. That’s when the Ferrari came into its own and ended with a finish that saw it just nose ahead of the mighty RAM.
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