{"id":66240,"date":"2022-11-01T07:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=66240"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:14","slug":"motortrend-presents-roadkill-nights-powered-by-dodge-to-return-in-2023-direct-connection-grudge-race-competitors-to-use-new-hurricrate-series-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/press-room\/2022\/11\/motortrend-presents-roadkill-nights-powered-by-dodge-to-return-in-2023-direct-connection-grudge-race-competitors-to-use-new-hurricrate-series-engines.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge\u2019 to Return in 2023, Direct Connection Grudge Race Competitors to Use New HurriCrate Series Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dodge and MotorTrend are announcing the 2023 return of the\none-day festival of street-legal drag racing, MotorTrend Presents Roadkill\nNights Powered by Dodge, along with a new format for the popular Dodge Direct\nConnection Grudge Race that highlights the Roadkill Nights event. Grudge Race\ncompetitors will pair up in 2023 and use all-new Dodge Direct Connection\nHurriCrate series of engines, derived from the all-new 3.0L Hurricane Twin\nTurbo engine, as the foundational building blocks of their respective drag car\nbuild projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2022 edition of MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, held on August 13, set a new one-day attendance record with more than 40,000 performance enthusiasts turning out in person, along with more than a million online views. The 2023 event will represent the eighth edition of Roadkill Nights, which has evolved from humble beginnings in a stadium parking lot to its current form with a massive footprint that draws tens of thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoadkill Nights just continues to evolve and get better each\nyear, and we knew we were going to run it back next year, so we thought, \u2018Why\nwait?\u2019 We\u2019re announcing right now that our horsepower circus will be coming to\ntown in 2023,\u201d said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer \u2013\nStellantis. “Next year, Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race competitors\nwill have at the heart of their build projects new Direct Connection HurriCrate\nengines. Since this is new tech for our enthusiasts, we\u2019re going to give them\nmore time to dial in their race car builds. We can\u2019t wait to see the results\nnext summer during Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race pits online\nautomotive builders in head-to-head drag-racing competition. The 2023 Grudge\nRace will feature pairs of competitors working together to create a Dodge or\nPlymouth drag machine using a new Direct Connection HurriCrate Series engine.\nThe HurriCrate series of engines from Direct Connection was announced today in\nconjunction with the opening of the Dodge brand\u2019s exhibit at the 2022 Specialty\nEquipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, Nov. 1-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2023 Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race will feature an\nexperienced drag racer and online automotive builder (The Mentor) working\ntogether with a \u201crookie\u201d online builder\/racer lacking previous drag-racing\nexperience (The Prot\u00e9g\u00e9). The Mentor will \u201cschool\u201d The Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 on building,\ntuning and testing their build project before The Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 ultimately battles it\nout on the drag strip for the Direct Connection Grudge Race crown during the\nRoadkill Nights Powered by Dodge event. All competitors will be linked with a\nDodge Power Brokers dealer and have VIP access to the Direct Connection Tech\nhotline at (800) 998-1110 to assist with their build projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are proud to partner with Dodge and bring back fans\nto Roadkill Nights in 2023,\u201d said Eric Schwab, MotorTrend Group\u2019s group SVP.\n\u201cRoadkill Nights truly brings the thrill of fingers-clenching, top-speed drag\nracing to life. There\u2019s something for everyone \u2014 drag racers, families, foodies\nand anyone who is looking to have a great day filled with unparalleled\nfun.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional details on the 2023 MotorTrend Presents Roadkill\nNights Powered by Dodge event, including dates, location and information on the\nDodge Direct Connection Grudge Race and event competitors, will be shared later\nin 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roadkill Nights is an event produced by ROADKILL, a brand of\nMotorTrend Group, with a hit show that delivers a one-of-a-kind taste of\n“Automotive Chaos Theory.” For more information on Roadkill and\nRoadkill Nights, follow on Facebook at facebook.com\/roadkillshow<\/a>\nor on Twitter at twitter.com\/roadkillshow<\/a>.\nFans can follow the action for Roadkill Nights with hashtags #RoadkillNights\nand #PoweredByDodge or watch ROADKILL across MotorTrend+<\/a>,\nMotorTrend TV, or MotorTrend\nFAST TV<\/a> through Samsung TV Plus and XUMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Direct Connection, the Dodge brand\u2019s exclusive source of factory-backed performance parts available through Dodge Power Brokers dealers, visit DCPerformance.com<\/a>. For more information on the Dodge brand, visit Dodge.com<\/a> or DodgeGarage.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dodge and MotorTrend are announcing the 2023 return of the one-day festival of street-legal drag racing, MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, along with a new format for the popular Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race that highlights the Roadkill Nights event. Grudge Race competitors will pair up in 2023 and use all-new Dodge Direct Connection HurriCrate series of engines, derived from the all-new 3.0L Hurricane Twin Turbo engine, as the foundational building blocks of their respective drag car build projects. The 2022 edition of MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":66244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2627],"tags":[685],"class_list":["post-66240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-room","tag-roadkill-nights"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RKN2023_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\/66240"}],"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=66240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66248,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66240\/revisions\/66248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}