The Art of Drag Racing: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Mammoth and H1000

As we stepped onto the drag strip, the anticipation was palpable. We were about to witness a battle between two behemoths of the automotive world - the Mammoth and the H1000. The Mammoth, with its massive size and weight, seemed like an unlikely contender in the realm of drag racing. But as we discovered, it had some tricks up its sleeve.

The first race was a standing quarter mile, where the cars would accelerate from a standstill to reach top speed within 12 seconds or less. The Mammoth took off with ease, its massive wheels spinning furiously as it devoured the distance. Meanwhile, the H1000 struggled to keep pace, its smaller engine and lighter weight making it difficult to generate enough power. In the end, the Mammoth emerged victorious, crossing the finish line in 12.3 seconds. The H1000, however, was not far behind, completing the quarter mile in a respectable 12.8 seconds.

But as we soon discovered, rolling racing was a different story altogether. With the Mammoth and H1000 facing off in a rolling race over the quarter mile, the dynamics changed dramatically. The Mammoth's massive weight and four-wheel drive system gave it an unprecedented amount of traction, allowing it to shoot off like a bullet from 0-60 mph in seconds. In contrast, the H1000 struggled to find traction, its smaller engine and lighter weight making it difficult to generate enough power.

One of the most surprising aspects of the rolling race was the Mammoth's incredible acceleration. It shot forward with ease, leaving the H1000 in its wake. The H1000, on the other hand, seemed to plod along, its engine struggling to keep pace with the Mammoth's blistering speed. As we watched the two cars zip past us, it was clear that the Mammoth had a significant advantage when it came to rolling racing.

But what about launching? That's where the H1000 truly excelled. With its massive power and torque output, the H1000 was able to launch itself forward with incredible force. The Mammoth, on the other hand, struggled to get off the line, its smaller engine and lighter weight making it difficult to generate enough power.

To even the playing field, we came up with a plan. We would have our friend Sam roll into his H1000 while drifting, hoping to gain an advantage over the Mammoth's superior launch capabilities. The idea was simple: if Sam could maintain control of his car and stay on course, he might be able to keep pace with the Mammoth's initial acceleration.

And so, we set off for our next race, determined to see if our plan would work. As we lined up at the starting line, the anticipation was palpable. This time, it was Sam who took off first, his H1000 drifting into its gear as he launched himself forward. Meanwhile, the Mammoth shot off like a bullet, its massive wheels spinning furiously as it devoured the distance.

As the two cars hurtled towards us, it became clear that our plan had worked... sort of. Sam's H1000 drifted into its gear and maintained control, allowing him to keep pace with the Mammoth's initial acceleration. But when it came time for the brake test, which stopped the car in the shortest distance, the H1000 proved to be surprisingly effective.

In the end, we declared our friend Sam the winner of the rolling race, thanks to his impressive drift control and ability to maintain traction on the brake test. The Mammoth may have had an advantage when it came to launching, but Sam's skills on the roll took him all the way to victory.

As we reflected on our experience, it became clear that drag racing was not just about raw power or speed. It was also about finesse, control, and strategy. And as we looked at the leaderboard, comparing the Mammoth and H1000's performance to everything else we'd ever drag raced, one thing was certain: these two cars were truly special.

But which car came out on top? That ultimately depends on what you're looking for in a drag racing experience. If raw power and speed are your thing, then the Mammoth is the clear winner. But if you prefer a more nuanced approach to drag racing - one that emphasizes finesse and control over brute force - then the H1000 may be the better choice.

As we left the drag strip, it was clear that this was just the beginning of our adventures in drag racing. With two cars as capable and powerful as the Mammoth and H1000, there were countless possibilities waiting to be explored. And with friends like Sam by our side, we knew that no matter what lay ahead, we'd face it together - with style, speed, and a healthy dose of competition.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat we'll win in a drag race between a Hennessy Mammoth and a Hennessy h1000 well I'm going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile here at Hennessee in Texas I'm M Watson and you're watching car so let me tell you about this Mammoth so it's based on a Dodge Ram TRX which means that it has a 6.2 L Supercharged V8 however instead of the standard cars 702 horsepower Hennessy has tuned it up to 1 ,000 horsepower it's also got 1,314 NT M of torque and it drives all four wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox it's quite heavy this thing though weighs in at 2.9 tons it's also reasonably expensive $141,000 it's about $50,000 more than a standard TRX that's the price you pay for that extra power and some other bit styling stuff and things like that anyway the engine and gearbox is pretty much identical as to what's in that Dodge Charger H let's find out about that from racing driver Sam Hi Sam how are you hello Matthew how are you got to say that car suits you this is a bit of me I love American Muscle I'm so happy in this car So Gone give me the stats on it cuz I think they're pretty much the same as this apart from obviously weight and driven Wheels yeah so this is the Hennessee h1000 Dodge Charger the 1,000 indicates 1,000 horsepower torque 948 ftlb driven rear whe gearbox sixspeed manual or 8-speed oh hold on I've been R burgundy 1 second uh Rory it said six or eight so your car is the automatic it's got eight speed also can we do a conversion of foot pounds to newton meters it's probably the same as this all right I'm good to go I've got it all here yeah are you ready okay he's ready now all right so I'm in the Hennessy h1000 Charger engine 6.2 L Supercharged V8 1,000 horsepower which is amazing it's got 1,285 Newt M of torque which is an awful lot to the rear wheels it's a 8-speed Auto this box which is a a many gears it is the widebody jailbreak Edition which is very cool and it even says Jailbreak on the dash which makes me like it even more you look like you've just broken out of jail as well I forgot to tell you this starts at $85,000 for the Hennessy version yes this one yeah now the important thing is Right we've got the same engine same horsepower slightly different torque but it doesn't really matter it's only like a handful of Newton meters in the grand scheme of things but you've got rear wheel drive I'm all-wheel drive I weigh 2.9 tons how much does your car weigh this weighs 2,086 kg what is that right can we just double check that please that really that that car weighs over two tons are we sure yeah it's correct you see you thought I'd been Rong burgundy again but I hadn't I got it right do you reckon that weight isn't evenly distributed front to rear I'd imagine it's not quite you know the Bavarian uh side of things maybe not wow anyway it's still quite a lot lighter than this but I've got more traction so it's going to be really interesting to see what happens in this drag race before we drag race though what we should do is a sound check to see which one sounds the best so I'm going to rev up my big woolly mammoth and let's have a listen to you Sam that's a win I think that is a win do you have a soft limiter four yeah I can't even see the revs on mine oh there they are same I've got a four but different exhaust but yeah your sounds fruer now let's go on with the racing see if um you can win that as well I'd like to add I'm feeling a tiny bit of moisture in the air so I'm just getting my early excuses in moisture could have something to do with it okay let's get on with this race now before we do if you like these kind of crazy matchups please make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss our next upload and you'll like it if you like American cars let's do this oh before we do if you'd like to compare these cars stat side by side here they are now for your perusal Now Let's Race 3 2 1 just been hard completely W this all over the place I'm sideways it's mental quick it's been dropped W that was quick I think for that race traction wins yeah that was terrifying there was a whole lot of um opposite lock in a drag race which isn't ideal well let's head back up there and give you another go but get some more heat into it t see if you can get a better launch yes boss that was just well Twitchy down there do you reckon that's going to be enough heat who knows I want to try one more launch control and then I want to try some just seeing if I can break boost it as well okay I've got the easy job really have three 2 1 oh we got a better start that time come on if he can hook up he might be with the sh out come on oh my God I'm gone now W he like always he coming now he's coming now come on oh interesting this is interesting this is I don't know why I went all Yoda n it's getting more interesting now if you hook up a little bit sooner I think you might catch me up yeah I'm so busy I was actually when you do launch controling this you can do it in D but I was short shifting and stuff to try and manage that power it's still proper skittish when you race any degree of left or right other than forwards is just time lost to you so it's trying to balance that really so I'm waiting to give you another go cuz I can just do this all day long it's so much fun what's your next tactic I'm going to take launch control out of the equation I've got traction off but I'm going to speak to all the clever people up there and see can I turn it off another degree so my foot can try and modulate it because this is still got a layer of TC that's cutting power and I'd like to try and keep the wheel spinning a bit longer that's my plan anyway but who knows I thought the wheel spinning was the problem maybe he knows what he's all about let's let's go again three 2 1 oh no that's just stupid he's going to delaminate those tires I can drive in the middle of the track because he's not even near me right well done for modulating the power there Sam it was well modulated in a very nice burnout Yeah scratch that for an idea do you know what's really funny the amount of inertia in the wheel even when I was lifting in and out of it it was just completely spinning the whole time now you've definitely got some heat into your tires do you want to go back put the systems on again let them help you a bit and let's see quickly get back up there warm tires you might run me close one last go 3 2 1 nice spinning again go on hook up no no chance out of all of those I think your second run was your closest it really was wasn't it yeah it's awesome I I think on you know as they say street tires un prepped this is going to struggle and you've got four-wheel drive it's good fun though it's dramatic traction be less weight almost certainly yeah and the if we do a a rolling I think that could be quite interesting then let's do the thing and take the time from the second race which was the closest so then what exactly happened well the mammoth won it completed the standing quarter mile in 12.3 seconds the charger took 12.8 seconds now we have a rolling race over the quarter mile so we're going to roll into it uh 30 m hour in second gear you ready then Sam three two two one go come on oh he's gone now that's more I like it fly me that's quick it's a different story now isn't it wow did you imagine that much of a difference probably not no I mean it really shot off didn't it okay now to be fa I gave you loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of goes in the drag race obviously you got me completely whooped in a rolling race so let's try and even things up a little bit I've got an idea I'll meet you back at the start okay Sam so my idea is this car is better at launching than your car car your car is better on the roll quite clearly so let's sort of split the difference in this next race I'm going to launch the car however you're going to roll into your race but you're going to have to roll into it while drifting because if you just roll into it normally you'll definitely win okay so you're got to drift into it and I'll be started on the word go from our starter 3 2 1 go and then I'll go how does that sound to you it sounds wonderful this is kind of crazy I don't know what's going to happen but let's give it a go 3 2 go oh this is so close oh this is weaving I think he might skip to gear oh man that was so close I saw you just like starting to arrive and this wasn't the fastest off the line that it's been it was a little bit slower not by loads and I thought you're going to come whizzing past me actually but I don't know what happened I nearly came whizzing through you not mine past you and I would have gone under you I set myself up based on your previous launches so I really thought I could actually position my car for a better line where you would be after the launch but you didn't get off the way I thought you would that sounds naughty and I just uh yeah it just hindered me a little bit I'm so sorry I didn't mean to do that I must have been holding on Boost for too long and it's that's just what it was now we have a brake test from 70 mph the car which stops in the shortest distance will win not sure it's going to be me but let's go for it anyway here we go here we go here comes the line here comes the line well you won but this didn't do as bad as I thought it would yeah and I did exactly what you wanted no hands no gears full ABS that stopped real good have you got some brakes on that yeah that did um surprisingly well I mean I won that's important we say that out loud but it did really well yeah I was really surprised actually not bad for a big 2.9 ton H truck isn't that crazy that that's 2.9 tons but this is 2.1 t I thought that would be a lot lighter but there we go I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like huge thanks to Hennessy for letting us come and play with their toys on their drag strip and of course let me know which you'd rather have this Mammoth or that h1000 let me know by voting in the Ping comment and if you want to compare these cars quar mile times to everything else we've ever drag race then just click on the car W logo to go and check out our carw drag race leaderboard thanks for watchingwhat we'll win in a drag race between a Hennessy Mammoth and a Hennessy h1000 well I'm going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile here at Hennessee in Texas I'm M Watson and you're watching car so let me tell you about this Mammoth so it's based on a Dodge Ram TRX which means that it has a 6.2 L Supercharged V8 however instead of the standard cars 702 horsepower Hennessy has tuned it up to 1 ,000 horsepower it's also got 1,314 NT M of torque and it drives all four wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox it's quite heavy this thing though weighs in at 2.9 tons it's also reasonably expensive $141,000 it's about $50,000 more than a standard TRX that's the price you pay for that extra power and some other bit styling stuff and things like that anyway the engine and gearbox is pretty much identical as to what's in that Dodge Charger H let's find out about that from racing driver Sam Hi Sam how are you hello Matthew how are you got to say that car suits you this is a bit of me I love American Muscle I'm so happy in this car So Gone give me the stats on it cuz I think they're pretty much the same as this apart from obviously weight and driven Wheels yeah so this is the Hennessee h1000 Dodge Charger the 1,000 indicates 1,000 horsepower torque 948 ftlb driven rear whe gearbox sixspeed manual or 8-speed oh hold on I've been R burgundy 1 second uh Rory it said six or eight so your car is the automatic it's got eight speed also can we do a conversion of foot pounds to newton meters it's probably the same as this all right I'm good to go I've got it all here yeah are you ready okay he's ready now all right so I'm in the Hennessy h1000 Charger engine 6.2 L Supercharged V8 1,000 horsepower which is amazing it's got 1,285 Newt M of torque which is an awful lot to the rear wheels it's a 8-speed Auto this box which is a a many gears it is the widebody jailbreak Edition which is very cool and it even says Jailbreak on the dash which makes me like it even more you look like you've just broken out of jail as well I forgot to tell you this starts at $85,000 for the Hennessy version yes this one yeah now the important thing is Right we've got the same engine same horsepower slightly different torque but it doesn't really matter it's only like a handful of Newton meters in the grand scheme of things but you've got rear wheel drive I'm all-wheel drive I weigh 2.9 tons how much does your car weigh this weighs 2,086 kg what is that right can we just double check that please that really that that car weighs over two tons are we sure yeah it's correct you see you thought I'd been Rong burgundy again but I hadn't I got it right do you reckon that weight isn't evenly distributed front to rear I'd imagine it's not quite you know the Bavarian uh side of things maybe not wow anyway it's still quite a lot lighter than this but I've got more traction so it's going to be really interesting to see what happens in this drag race before we drag race though what we should do is a sound check to see which one sounds the best so I'm going to rev up my big woolly mammoth and let's have a listen to you Sam that's a win I think that is a win do you have a soft limiter four yeah I can't even see the revs on mine oh there they are same I've got a four but different exhaust but yeah your sounds fruer now let's go on with the racing see if um you can win that as well I'd like to add I'm feeling a tiny bit of moisture in the air so I'm just getting my early excuses in moisture could have something to do with it okay let's get on with this race now before we do if you like these kind of crazy matchups please make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss our next upload and you'll like it if you like American cars let's do this oh before we do if you'd like to compare these cars stat side by side here they are now for your perusal Now Let's Race 3 2 1 just been hard completely W this all over the place I'm sideways it's mental quick it's been dropped W that was quick I think for that race traction wins yeah that was terrifying there was a whole lot of um opposite lock in a drag race which isn't ideal well let's head back up there and give you another go but get some more heat into it t see if you can get a better launch yes boss that was just well Twitchy down there do you reckon that's going to be enough heat who knows I want to try one more launch control and then I want to try some just seeing if I can break boost it as well okay I've got the easy job really have three 2 1 oh we got a better start that time come on if he can hook up he might be with the sh out come on oh my God I'm gone now W he like always he coming now he's coming now come on oh interesting this is interesting this is I don't know why I went all Yoda n it's getting more interesting now if you hook up a little bit sooner I think you might catch me up yeah I'm so busy I was actually when you do launch controling this you can do it in D but I was short shifting and stuff to try and manage that power it's still proper skittish when you race any degree of left or right other than forwards is just time lost to you so it's trying to balance that really so I'm waiting to give you another go cuz I can just do this all day long it's so much fun what's your next tactic I'm going to take launch control out of the equation I've got traction off but I'm going to speak to all the clever people up there and see can I turn it off another degree so my foot can try and modulate it because this is still got a layer of TC that's cutting power and I'd like to try and keep the wheel spinning a bit longer that's my plan anyway but who knows I thought the wheel spinning was the problem maybe he knows what he's all about let's let's go again three 2 1 oh no that's just stupid he's going to delaminate those tires I can drive in the middle of the track because he's not even near me right well done for modulating the power there Sam it was well modulated in a very nice burnout Yeah scratch that for an idea do you know what's really funny the amount of inertia in the wheel even when I was lifting in and out of it it was just completely spinning the whole time now you've definitely got some heat into your tires do you want to go back put the systems on again let them help you a bit and let's see quickly get back up there warm tires you might run me close one last go 3 2 1 nice spinning again go on hook up no no chance out of all of those I think your second run was your closest it really was wasn't it yeah it's awesome I I think on you know as they say street tires un prepped this is going to struggle and you've got four-wheel drive it's good fun though it's dramatic traction be less weight almost certainly yeah and the if we do a a rolling I think that could be quite interesting then let's do the thing and take the time from the second race which was the closest so then what exactly happened well the mammoth won it completed the standing quarter mile in 12.3 seconds the charger took 12.8 seconds now we have a rolling race over the quarter mile so we're going to roll into it uh 30 m hour in second gear you ready then Sam three two two one go come on oh he's gone now that's more I like it fly me that's quick it's a different story now isn't it wow did you imagine that much of a difference probably not no I mean it really shot off didn't it okay now to be fa I gave you loads and loads and loads and loads and loads and loads of goes in the drag race obviously you got me completely whooped in a rolling race so let's try and even things up a little bit I've got an idea I'll meet you back at the start okay Sam so my idea is this car is better at launching than your car car your car is better on the roll quite clearly so let's sort of split the difference in this next race I'm going to launch the car however you're going to roll into your race but you're going to have to roll into it while drifting because if you just roll into it normally you'll definitely win okay so you're got to drift into it and I'll be started on the word go from our starter 3 2 1 go and then I'll go how does that sound to you it sounds wonderful this is kind of crazy I don't know what's going to happen but let's give it a go 3 2 go oh this is so close oh this is weaving I think he might skip to gear oh man that was so close I saw you just like starting to arrive and this wasn't the fastest off the line that it's been it was a little bit slower not by loads and I thought you're going to come whizzing past me actually but I don't know what happened I nearly came whizzing through you not mine past you and I would have gone under you I set myself up based on your previous launches so I really thought I could actually position my car for a better line where you would be after the launch but you didn't get off the way I thought you would that sounds naughty and I just uh yeah it just hindered me a little bit I'm so sorry I didn't mean to do that I must have been holding on Boost for too long and it's that's just what it was now we have a brake test from 70 mph the car which stops in the shortest distance will win not sure it's going to be me but let's go for it anyway here we go here we go here comes the line here comes the line well you won but this didn't do as bad as I thought it would yeah and I did exactly what you wanted no hands no gears full ABS that stopped real good have you got some brakes on that yeah that did um surprisingly well I mean I won that's important we say that out loud but it did really well yeah I was really surprised actually not bad for a big 2.9 ton H truck isn't that crazy that that's 2.9 tons but this is 2.1 t I thought that would be a lot lighter but there we go I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like huge thanks to Hennessy for letting us come and play with their toys on their drag strip and of course let me know which you'd rather have this Mammoth or that h1000 let me know by voting in the Ping comment and if you want to compare these cars quar mile times to everything else we've ever drag race then just click on the car W logo to go and check out our carw drag race leaderboard thanks for watching\n"