{"id":60064,"date":"2022-03-08T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60064"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:41","slug":"hotcars-goes-drag-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/03\/hotcars-goes-drag-racing.html","title":{"rendered":"HotCars goes Drag Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we know, Radford Racing School is the official high performance racing school of Dodge. But did you know that they offer a drag racing class that puts you in the driver\u2019s seat of a Dodge Challenger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Demon? Michael Van Runkle from HotCars got to take a crack at it after his four-day Grand Prix course, and luckily for us brought his film gear with him. In this class, instructors Chuck Sundstrom and Josh Edwards teach the basics of car control to avoid oversteering \u2013 not such an easy task when you\u2019re behind the wheel of an 840HP beast. Like the students before him, Michael learned how to warm up his rear tires using Line Lock, among other exercises. After each run, his instructor gives him feedback and tips to help better his time and overall performance. Enjoy the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ride along (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CsEqFRNt-S0\" target=\"_blank\">ride along<\/a> and let us know if you\u2019ve ever driven an SRT Demon in the comments! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"HotCars goes Drag Racing\u201d class=\" embed-responsive-item\"=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsEqFRNt-S0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, Radford Racing School is the official high performance racing school of Dodge. But did you know that they offer a drag racing class that puts you in the driver\u2019s seat of a Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae Demon? Michael Van Runkle from HotCars got to take a crack at it after his four-day Grand Prix course, and luckily for us brought his film gear with him. In this class, instructors Chuck Sundstrom and Josh Edwards teach the basics of car control to avoid oversteering \u2013 not such an easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[528,2976],"class_list":["post-60064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-drag-racing","tag-radford"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/RadfordDemons_Feature.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60071,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60064\/revisions\/60071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}