This week’s Black Fridays feature takes a look at five nicely built diesel trucks participating in a burnout competition. I will warn you that one of the five trucks is a Ford and while I generally avoid videos that have too much focus on non-Chrysler Group products – watching the four diesel Rams roast their tires is just too good to pass up.
The video begins with a black 2nd gen CTD Ram doing a burnout while another truck (that is hard to identify) does donuts off in the distance. The second truck is a 3rd gen Ram 3500 dually who gets into some series drifting action while smoldering all four rear tires. Third is the Ford Super Duty that actually does a pretty impressive burnout with lots of diesel smoke before we head to the 4th clip that shows a 1st gen Ram doing a great rolling burnout. Finally, the video ends up with another 2nd gen Ram with not a lot of diesel smoke but a whole lotta tire smoke.
My favorite is the 1st gen Ram because not only does it do a nasty, smokey burnout from a roll – it blows plenty of soot in the process and along with the help of a few other Rams and even a Ford, this is a great feature piece for DodgeForum’s Black Friday.
"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.
