There’s a name I haven’t heard in awhile—One Lap of America, the legal version of the Cannonball Run that also happened to be created by Brock Yates. The idea was to produce a similar race without being thrown in jail for reckless driving. Dodge—you know, the company that had the world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car and continues to make that claim without a Hemi—will be making its first race appearance a specially prepared Charger in the 41st annual One Lap of America.
By the time you read this, the race will have already started at the Tire Rack corporate headquarters in South Bend, Indiana. Dodge high-performance vehicle dynamics engineer David Carr will be driving a special Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack in Alternative Fuel class, accompanied by Dodge Garage contributor Sean Yoder. This white Charger will feature interesting orange graphics on the rear with a hood blackout featuring the Dodge Fratzog. A standard feature on the Scat Pack are huge 16-inch Brembo vented rotors and red six-piston front/four-piston rear fixed calipers. The only modification to this Charger is the roll cage.
“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,” says Dodge CEO Matt McAlear. “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.”
Here’s the schedule of the One Lap:
Saturday, May 3
- Tire Rack Corporate Headquarters, South Bend, Indiana (skid pad)
- 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)
- Quaker City Motorsports Drag Strip, Salem, Ohio (drag race/bracket drag)
Friday, May 9
- Grattan Raceway, Belding, Michigan (time trials)
Saturday, May 10
- Tire Rack Corporate Headquarters, South Bend, Indiana (skid pad)
If you’d like to follow the Dodge via online race coverage, you can visit DodgeGarage.com. You can also view the YouTube livestream at onelapofamerica.com.
(And let’s hope next year Dodge will run a companion vehicle with Hemi V8 power!)
