---
title: "Watch Hennessey’s 600-HP VelociRaptor Battle a Stock 2017 F-150 Raptor in a Drag Race"
description: "Raptor-on-raptor fighting is always a treat."
date: "2017-06-15"
modified: "2017-06-15"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/11559/watch-hennesseys-600-hp-velociraptor-battle-a-stock-2017-f-150-raptor-in-a-drag-race"
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tags:
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  - "Off-Road"
  - "pickup"
  - "Raptor"
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---

# Watch Hennessey’s 600-HP VelociRaptor Battle a Stock 2017 F-150 Raptor in a Drag Race

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/06/hennessey-raptor-race.jpg>)
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If you're of a certain age, you might remember an old-school [PlayStation game called *Warpath: Jurassic Park*](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warpath:_Jurassic_Park>), where players battle against one another using crudely-rendered dinosaurs from the cinematic franchise. It's long since been banished to the 99-cent bins at Best Buy, but seeing Hennessey Performance's 600-horsepower VelociRaptor fight [a stock Ford F-150 Raptor](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/6712/the-ford-f-150-raptor-is-the-perfect-truck>) in a quarter-mile drag race brings us back to those halcyon days of making giant dinos duke it out *mano a mano*—or in this case, *rueda a rueda*.

Admittedly, a paved drag strip isn't exactly [the F-150 Raptor's preferred playground](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9193/watch-ken-block-try-to-bend-a-2017-ford-f-150-raptors-frame>), but it makes for an ideal location to show off the impact of the added 150 horsepower brought about via [the Hennessey conversion](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/9427/hennessey-to-boost-dodge-challenger-demon-to-1500-hp-because-hennessey>). To boost the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 up to an even 600 ponies and a hearty 622 pound-feet of torque, the Texas-based speed shop upgrades the air flow and turbochargers, pumps up the intercooler, adds a stainless steel catback exhaust, and gives the ECU a tweak. All that adds up to [a 0-60 run of 4.2 seconds, according to Hennessey](<https://hennesseyperformance.com/vehicles/ford/f-150-raptor/2017-ford-f-150-raptor/velociraptor-600-twin-turbo/>)—roughly a full second faster than the stock Raptor.

Which, as it turns out, equates to around an eight-truck length difference after a quarter-mile of full-throttle blast.

https://youtube.com/embed/CpaRRXAtiVE

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)