"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
The majority of information on the 2017 Dodge Challenger and 2017 Dodge Charger has been announced and while there aren’t any major changes or more power, the entire Challenger and Charger lineup will benefit from a new version of the UConnect system. Also, the Hellcat variants of both Dodge muscle cars receive new, lightweight wheels, […] More »
We have already brought you elaborate pictorial pieces on the Dodge display at the 2016 Woodward Dream Cruise and from the racing portion of the Roadkill Nights by Dodge in Pontiac, Michigan, but today, we bring you a look at the other key components of the Roadkill Nights event. While the legal street racing on […] More »
This past Friday, the Roadkill Nights by Dodge event took place at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan and while there were all sorts of Dodge-themed displays, food trucks, Roadkill cars and more than a thousand show cars, the main attraction was the legal street racing on Woodward Avenue on the eve of the 2016 […] More »
This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people headed to Metro Detroit for the 2016 Woodward Dream Cruise and as is generally the case, the Fiat Chrysler display was one of the biggest and most impressive of the automaker layouts. There were dozens of cars, trucks and SUVs from the entire FCA group, merchandise sales, […] More »
The Shift Sector crew recently held a half mile top speed event on an airstrip outside of Marion, Indiana, and among the many high performance cars in attendance were a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat built by Forza Tuning & Performance. Each of these Hellcat Dodge cars have the Forza […] More »
This morning at a small media event along Detroit’s Woodward Avenue, the Dodge brand rolled out their newest muscle cars for the 2017 model year – the new Charger Daytona and the new Challenger T/A. Each of these new muscle cars are offered with two different Hemi engines along with a handful of high performance […] More »
The folks at Dodge have rolled out two new badass commercials – both of which focus on the Challenger SRT Hellcat in very different ways. FCA is positioning Dodge as a high performance brand, so as vehicles like the Dart and the Caravan leave the lineup, we will see more marketing attention paid to the […] More »