The all-new Dodge Charger Daytona, the world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car, is set to make its racing debut at the 41st running of the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports Magazine, covering more than 3,500 miles across eight states during the seven-day endurance event, scheduled to take place May 3-10.
“The One Lap of America is a formidable endurance test, one the 670-horsepower Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack is uniquely equipped to meet head-on, as the all-new Charger is not only designed and engineered for performance on the street, but also at the track and the strip,” said Matt McAlear, Dodge CEO. “The One Lap competition will showcase key Charger Daytona Scat Pack features, such as Track Package performance content and best-in-class cargo space in the ‘hidden hatch’ muscle-car design, providing our race team plenty of room to stretch out and bring along important gear as they spend basically an entire week in the Charger.”
David Carr, Dodge high-performance vehicle dynamics engineer and an experienced racer who has piloted a variety of Stellantis vehicles in four previous One Lap campaigns, will be joined on the weeklong adventure by Dodge Garage contributor Sean Yoder. The pair will spend most of their days in the all-new muscle car and work together to plot out brief pit stops to charge up the next-gen Charger Daytona as they travel to competitions at racetracks covering eight states, including:
| Date | :Location | Event |
| Saturday, May 3 | Tire Rack Corporate Headquarters, South Bend, Indiana | Skid Pad |
| Saturday, May 3 | Grissom Air Force Base, North Central, Indiana | Autocross |
| Sunday, May 4 | Gateway Motorsports Park, Madison, Illinois | Time Trials |
| Monday, May 5 | Hedge Hollow Road Course, Adrian, Missouri | Time Trials |
| Tuesday, May 6 | NCM Motorsports Park Road Course, Bowling Green, Kentucky | Time Trials |
| Wednesday, May 7 | Virginia International Raceway, Alton, Virginia | Time Trials |
| Thursday, May 8 | Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, Pennsylvania | Time Trials |
| Thursday, May 8 | Quaker City Motorsports Drag Strip, Salem, Ohio | Drag Race/ Bracket Drag |
| Friday, May 9 | Grattan Raceway, Belding, Mich. | Time Trials |
| Saturday, May 10 | Tire Rack Corporate Headquarters, South Bend, Indiana | Skid Pad |
Carr and Yoder will compete in the Alternative Fuel class in a Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack outfitted with unique black-and-orange graphics. The graphics will include Daytona text logos on the rear fenders and a large orange Fratzog logo on the painted black hood. The Fratzog logo is the new symbol of Dodge brand next-generation vehicles.
The One Lap Charger Daytona Scat Pack will be completely stock, aside from an installed roll bar. It will feature the massive 16-inch Brembo vented rotors and red six-piston front/four-piston rear fixed calipers that are standard on the Scat Pack, the largest brake package offered on a Dodge vehicle, delivering ultimate track performance and brake fade resistance. The Charger Daytona’s two-valve continuously variable dampers allow vehicle Drive Modes to provide exceptional comfort during travel time between track locations and excellent body control and handling during track competition.
The Charger Daytona’s rear mechanical limited slip differential enables optimal grip and handling, while the rear spoiler provides real-world track benefits by delivering high-speed stability. The One Lap Charger Daytona Scat Pack is also equipped with Track Package, giving the Dodge One Lap team a host of performance features to unleash on the track, including:
Drive Modes: The Charger Daytona Scat Pack also includes Track, Drag and Custom drive modes; Track mode optimizes vehicle performance characteristics on smooth, dry track surfaces, while Drag Mode, intended for use on an enclosed drag strip, provides optimal drag strip launch and straight-line acceleration. Custom Mode allows drivers to individually dial in steering feel, pedal response and more
Launch Control: Provides optimal straight-line acceleration from a stationary start, with five selectable levels of launch intensity
Race Prep: The new Charger debuts Dodge-exclusive race prep methods for both drag racing and track racing. With energy demand shorter in drag racing, the race prep system supports optimum energy output through a warmer battery. Track-racing needs require a longer energy demand, which heats the battery, prompting the race prep system to achieve a colder start temperature, allowing more time for the battery to heat up and allowing for more track time. Race prep pages include information on the battery level, thermal level and the time remaining for the battery to achieve race readiness
Drift/Donut Mode: Drift/Donut mode provides optimal vehicle setup to support drifting and donuts and allows the driver to put the vehicle in a rear-biased propulsion mode with electronic stability control (ESC) full off and then vary the amount of traction control to support drifting and donuts
Drive Experience Recorder: Drivers can capture and analyze a day at the track via the dashcam in the all-new Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack with the Drive Experience Recorder (DxR). The event-based recorder, with user options for drag race and circuit race recording, offers synchronized logging of audio, video and vehicle data
Dodge enthusiasts can follow Carr and Yoder as they travel throughout the country in the Charger Daytona via online race coverage at DodgeGarage.com, starting May 3.
For more information on the Tire Rack One Lap of America and to view YouTube livestream coverage of the race, visit onelapofamerica.com.
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Charger’s got this!
WOULD BE NICE IF VARIATIONS OF THESE GRAPHICS WERE AVAILABLE AS PACKAGES FOR THE PRODUCTION CARS BOTH ICE AND EV AND BOTH 2DR AND 4DR
Let’s Go:checkered_flag:
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