The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Drag Racing Series has been lauded for decades for its gender diversity, welcoming women to compete on an equal playing field at all levels of the sport. They’ve won regularly and they’ve earned world championships. But it wasn’t always this way. It has been a rough road to get
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For some of the 100-plus drivers who line their cars up for drag racing at this year’s Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, they’ll experience the thrill of historic Woodward Avenue for just the first or second time in their lives. Not Rick Callahan, who pilots a black 1968 Dodge Dart GTS in the Big Tire
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The first seven months of the 2018 NHRA season contained plenty of highlights for the Mopar- and Dodge-backed drivers in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes. Among them: Matt Hagan debuts the redesigned 2019 Mopar Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car body in Denver, and drives it into the final round at Indianapolis. Leah
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The back of an NHRA Funny Car is the business end – massive 36-inch-diameter tires for traction and a big wing for downforce to handle the 11,000-plus horsepower of the nitro-fueled HEMI® engine. But the Mopar and Dodge//SRT team focused on adding downforce to the front of the new Mopar Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny
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Mopar celebrates its 80th birthday on Aug. 1. From humble beginnings as a name for engine anti-freeze, the Mopar brand has come a long way and shows no signs of slowing down as it rolls past 80 years on the history odometer. Today, the Mopar name works harder than ever — delivering high-quality service, parts and customer care
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In the summer of 2015, with car enthusiasts in awe of the performance of the newly introduced supercharged Hellcat V-8 engine (707 horsepower, 650 pounds-feet of torque) in the Dodge Challenger SRT and Charger SRT, FCA Powertrain and Dodge planners began to ponder “what’s next.” Following a route carved by the Dodge Viper ACR as
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Many performance cars get measured on the run from 0 to 60 mph. The Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak has notched a sales performance metric – 60 to 0. All 60 planned copies of Mopar’s factory-built drag race car for NHRA competition have been ordered by dealers. The total covers 35 Drag Paks equipped with
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