Beyond just the horsepower, a lot of that acceleration power is down to the tires, Mickey Thompson ET Street R drag radials, which are barely street-legal and designed for drag-strip performance.

The basic pre-staging burnout ceremony is still observed, as anyone who lives near an active drag strip already knows. But its primary function is now to preheat the tires more than to provide a ...

I overcompensate, matting the throttle and scorching the tires to flee my balking failure. It's my fifth time launching the Demon—or any car at a drag strip, ever—and I've slipped on a banana ...

Like the limited-edition Demon, this is a Challenger set up for the drag strip. But the Demon has been ... that packaged skinny front wheels and tires, a jack, and tools, but the car does come ...

Having been down a drag strip thousands of times ... and once satisfied with the amount of liquefied/vaporized rubber and tire heat, release the OK button and gradually pedal out.