So I'm no stranger to drag racing, spent the entire last year learning how to do it with the Scat Pack. Got pretty good at it, held the title of fastest stock charger scat pack with a 2015 that went 11.612 @ 119mph which got obliterated by a 2019 Charger when they came out. Had a lot of fun, made a ton of friends and am looking forward to making more friends with the Hellcat. When I was learning to drag race I came up with the following habit from burnout box to light to 1320... This is a video of me at Capitol Last year.
1.) Use tazer to do a burnout with a zero one, zero two, zero three count to get the Mickey Thompson ET Street R's sticky, when I saw smoke I would roll out.
2.) I would then hit traction control for eight seconds to turn off the traction control completely. I found that in the Scat Pack, traction control even on Track settings hurt time.
3.) Roll to light, hit first beam, wait for other driver.
4.) Hit second beam, begin torque converter lock by power braking to 1800 RPM.
5.) On third yellow, drop the hammer and hold on.
6.) 1320 begin light braking and depending on lane wait to turn off to service road.
Am I going to be able to adapt this to the Hellcat or do I have to re-work my procedures? Also is launch control a gimmick in these cars as well or does it actually work? Would launch control have me leave under boost or would power braking at the line be the best option? I play to lower the PSI in the Mickey's to 20PSI to start off with, thoughts on this? I'll be heading to Cecil County tomorrow night and have flutters in my stomach, the prospect of drag racing again has me all excited!