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Ninth Year of MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge Brings Crowd of More Than 40,000 Attendees to M1 Concourse
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —
- 2024 MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge marks the ninth year of daylong festival with more than 40,000 car enthusiasts gathered to witness packed on-site activities, including Dodge Drift Rides and first-ever Dodge Hornet Rally Rides
- Morgan Evans takes home bragging rights with win in the Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race in her 1987 Dodge D150 with new HurriCrate twin-turbo inline six engine
- Roadkill Nights event hosts public debut of all-new 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona, reveal of Charger Daytona’s Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust system
- Jimmer Kline claims the Big Tire class crown and Mikael Borggren takes the Small Tire victory
- Sick Powerfest pre-party on August 9 at M1 kicked off two-day horsepower celebration, which brought a combined attendance of 50,000-plus enthusiasts
- Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge post-event coverage, including exclusive podcasts, available at DodgeGarage.com
Back for its ninth year, MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge brought an adrenaline-filled weekend to M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, on Saturday, August 10, 2024.
The 2024 Roadkill Nights main event drew a crowd of more than 40,000 drag-racing enthusiasts for the festival of all things automotive. Attractions inside M1 Concourse included adrenaline-fueled drag racing in Big Tire and Small Tire classes and the Direct Connection Grudge Race, the worldwide public debut of the all-new Dodge Charger Daytona, Dodge Drift Rides, first-ever Dodge Hornet Rally Rides, Roadkill stunts and talent appearances, exclusive merchandise, food trucks, music, entertainment and more.
Bringing the high-octane drag-racing action inside M1 Concourse, the new location offered a fan-friendly spectator experience, including first open, walkable pit areas to allow fans to interact with racers, and a viewing area that placed event attendees closer to the drag-racing action.
“In its ninth year, MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge continues to evolve and get better and better,” said Matt McAlear, Dodge brand CEO – Stellantis (NYSE:). “From the public debut of the all-new Dodge Charger Daytona and its Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust system, to the Direct Connection Grudge Race, to first-ever Dodge Hornet Rally Rides and drag-racing action inside M1 Concourse, it was another weekend for the history books for the Dodge Brotherhood of Muscle.”
“For nearly a decade, we’ve brought the ultimate car culture celebration to life at MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, and this year we introduced some thrilling firsts,” says Eric Schwab, MotorTrend Group’s group SVP, head of revenue, operations and partnerships. “For the first time, drag racing took place inside the M1 Concourse, offering walkable pits and enhanced viewing areas that brought fans closer to the action than ever before. With these new experiences, along with the worldwide debut of the all-new Dodge Charger Daytona, we welcomed over 40,000 fans for an adrenaline-fueled weekend, proving once again that Roadkill Nights continues to set the bar for action-packed automotive excitement.”
Roadkill Nights also raised the bar with this year’s Dodge Direct Connection Grudge Race. Seven drivers dropped Direct Connection HurriCrate engines in their build projects in a quest for ultimate Dodge bragging rights. In the final round, Morgan Evans took the lead off the starting line and never looked back, defeating the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon driven by Garrett Reed.
“We worked so hard over the last two months, and I can’t believe we got here and we ended up winning. The truck worked incredibly, and I couldn’t have asked it to do better,” said Evans. “We built a 1987 Dodge D150 with the new HurriCrate twin-turbo inline six. I love that thing. I can’t get over how well it performed. It’s twerky, and it spools fast.”
Also new for 2024, Sick Powerfest kicked off the action as the official Roadkill Nights pre-party on Friday, August 9, also at M1 Concourse. Fans lined up for Dodge Drift Rides and Dodge Hornet Rally Rides, as well as for a chance to catch all the action in the World Burnout Championship with $25,000 up for grabs. With 10,000-plus attendees, the Sick Powerfest pre-party helped drive combined attendance to 50,000-plus for the entire two-day horsepower celebration.
At the Roadkill Nights main event on Saturday, the Big Tire (over 275mm width) and Small Tire (275mm width and under) classes saw competitors battle for bragging rights and cash prizes on the first-ever drag strip at M1 Concourse in Pontiac. Each class winner earned $5,000, with the fastest Dodge cars in both classes taking home another $5,000 each. In Big Tire, Jimmer Kline was a repeat winner, with Mikael Borggren also going back-to-back in the Small Tire class.
“It was a huge win for the event to come inside M1 Concourse with a stadium feel and completely unprepped surface that was honest, no-prep style drag racing,” said Brian Lohnes, Roadkill Nights announcer and NHRA broadcaster. “It required a much higher skill set to be successful. The winners were repeat winners for the most part, but also highly talented drag racers that were pushed to their limit to succeed.”
For Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge post-event coverage, including exclusive podcasts featuring an interview with Dodge Brand CEO Matt McAlear and a roundtable discussion with Direct Connection Grudge Race competitors, visit DodgeGarage.com.
MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge: By The Numbers
40,000+ MotorTrend Presents Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge attendance
50,000+ Combined attendance of Roadkill Nights and Sick Powerfest pre-party
100+ Drag race competitors
4,900+ Dodge Drift Rides and Dodge Hornet Rally Rides participants
300+ Cruise-in cars
1/8 mile Length of drag strip
1,000,000+ K-rails installed (in pounds)
19,000+ Burnout Box weight (in pounds)
MotorTrend Group
MotorTrend Group, a Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ:) company, is the world’s largest automotive media group dedicated to introducing, inspiring, and intensifying people’s passions for the motoring world. Comprising more than 50 iconic brands including MOTORTREND, HOT ROD, ROADKILL and more, MotorTrend Group is the ultimate source of entertainment and information for both auto enthusiasts and car shoppers, with a monthly audience over 30 million in addition to over 70 million social followers. Featuring world-class automotive entertainment across the No. 1 television network for automotive fans, digital streaming channels, iconic events, the largest automotive social network, category-leading podcasts, over seven decades of print and digital editorial content, and cutting-edge resources for new car shoppers, MotorTrend embodies every corner of car culture. From electric vehicles to timeless classic customs, MotorTrend Group brings the latest motoring trends to fans of all generations.
Dodge//SRT
For 110 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with a lineup that delivers unrivaled performance in each of the segments in which the brand competes while moving forward to a future that includes electrified muscle in the form of the next-generation, all-new Dodge Charger.
The next-generation Dodge Charger electrifies a legend, with the Charger retaining its title as the world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car led by the all-new, all-electric 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack. The all-new Dodge Charger will also offer performance choices via multi-energy powertrain options including the 550-horsepower Dodge Charger SIXPACK H.O., powered by the 3.0L Twin Turbo Hurricane High Output engine.
Dodge also keeps its foot on the gas as a pure performance brand with the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever, and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet.
Dodge is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please visit www.stellantis.com.
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By Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City on Saturday, while the Israeli military said the attack targeted a command centre of militant group Hamas.
The Gaza health ministry said most of those killed were women and children. The Hamas-run government media office said 13 children and six women were among the dead.
The military said it hit a Hamas command centre embedded in the compound that previously served as a school, repeating an accusation that the group uses civilian facilities for military purposes. Hamas denies that.
Reuters footage from the site showed blasted walls, wrecked and burnt furniture, and holes in the ceiling of one room as people tried to salvage what they could of belongings.
“The women and their children were sitting in the playground of the school, the kids were playing, and suddenly two rockets hit them,” said one witness Said Al-Malahi.
Some of the dead were wrapped in blankets and carried away on donkey carts, as ambulances transferred other bodies.
“I couldn’t take it, I did not see a single man that is injured, it was all women and children, let the Arab countries rejoice, let them rejoice and clap for (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and the United States of America,” said another eyewitness, Ahmed Azzam, bitter that regional neighbours were not taking a tougher line against Israel.
MEDICS KILLED
In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, the Gaza health ministry said four health workers were killed by an Israeli strike that hit ministry warehouses. Ambulance crews could not reach the dead or treat the wounded, it added.
In a statement, the Israeli military said forces, operating in Rafah since May, have killed dozens of militants in recent weeks and dismantled military infrastructure and tunnel shafts.
Israel’s demand to keep control of the southern border line between Rafah and Egypt has been a major sticking point in international efforts to conclude a ceasefire deal.
Hamas says it is focused on an agreement to end the war and get Israeli forces out of Gaza, while Israel says the war can only end once Hamas is eradicated. Another sticking point has been the specifics of an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
This war in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s subsequent assault on the enclave has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry, and displaced nearly the entire 2.3 million-strong population.
(Reporting and writing by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Additional reporting by Dawoud Abu Alkas in Gaza, Adam Makary in Cairo and Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Andrew Cawthorne)
By James Oliphant
(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be joined by his party’s embattled pick for North Carolina governor when he visits the critical electoral state on Saturday, the Trump campaign said.
Trump previously endorsed Mark Robinson, who was the subject of an explosive CNN report this week that he once called himself a Black Nazi and proposed bringing back slavery in comments posted on a pornography website.
Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, denied the allegations and has said he will remain in the governor’s race. His campaign could not be reached for comment.
Some Republicans fear his candidacy in one of the country’s highest-profile down-ballot races this year could damage Trump’s chances in the battleground state, where polls show Trump essentially tied with Democratic rival Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
Ahead of Trump’s afternoon rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on Saturday, the Democratic National Committee launched new advertising across the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and Greensboro tying the former president to Robinson.
The billboard ads show a photo of the two men together, along with direct quotes from Trump previously calling Robinson an “outstanding person” and an “incredible gentleman.”
The Harris campaign also began running a TV ad in the state on Friday featuring Trump’s past praise for Robinson.
In March, Trump called Robinson “Martin Luther King on steroids” after Robinson delivered remarks in Greensboro, and Robinson appeared at a Trump event as recently as last month. Robinson would be the state’s first Black governor if elected.
Robinson has a history of inflammatory rhetoric, at times referring to Muslims as “invaders” and calling gay and transgender people “filth.” He has made comments denying the Holocaust.
Trump has yet to address the latest allegations against Robinson. One Trump adviser, who asked not to be named, said Trump should stay silent and not fan the controversy.
“Ignore it, and let it die,” the adviser said.
Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Harris’ campaign and its allies have made a significant investment in North Carolina, including two stops by the vice president last week. A Democratic presidential candidate has not won the state since 2008, but voters elected Democrat Roy Cooper as governor in 2016 and 2020.
Robinson had been trailing his opponent, Democrat Josh Stein, even before the CNN report, suggesting that he could be a drag on Trump’s chances in the state if some disaffected Republicans stay home on Election Day or defect to Harris.
Chris Cooper, a professor of political science at Western Carolina University, said in a state that Trump won by just 1.3 percentage points in 2020, the Robinson scandal could damage Republicans’ chances up and down the ballot in November, including Trump’s.
“If some people feel that the Republican brand is stained enough that they’d rather stay home, then that’s going to matter,” Cooper said. “It doesn’t take a big difference to flip the state.”
Thom Tillis, a Republican U.S. senator from North Carolina, responded to the allegations against Robinson by telling voters on X that “we must focus on the races we can win,” citing the presidential contest but omitting the gubernatorial vote.
“If Harris takes NC, she takes the White House,” Tillis wrote. “We can’t let that happen.”
(Reuters) – General Motors (NYSE:) will begin laying off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice earlier this week.
The first of two rounds of layoffs will begin Nov. 18 and will include the temporary layoff of 686 full-time workers and the termination of 250 temporary employees, Automotive News reported on Saturday citing a company filing to the state of Kansas.
Starting Jan. 12, 759 full-time workers will be temporarily laid off, the report added.
GM did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the details of the latest layoffs.
Earlier in May, GM had said that it would pause production of the Cadillac XT4 after January 2025 in Kansas, resulting in layoffs of production employees until production resumes in late 2025 for both the Bolt EV and XT4 on the same assembly line.
The company had also said in August that it was laying off more than 1,000 salaried employees at its software and service units worldwide.
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