While today’s Truckin Fast feature video could have just as easily been included as the Black Fridays feature due to the massive amount of diesel soot pouring from the stacks – watching a 2nd gen Ram powered by a Cummins Turbo Diesel absolutely destroy a nitrous injected Fox Body Mustang was just too good for me to pass up.
This race between a bottle fed Fox Body Mustang and a 2nd generation Cummins Turbo Diesel Ram 2500 was captured during a filming of Pinks: All Out at Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk Ohio. Luckily, since this was a race that occurred on Pinks, I was able to find two videos of the same run with one captured from the grandstands on the Mustangs side of the track and the other from the Ram’s side. The video from the Mustang’s side is a bit blurry at the end so we cannot see what the Ram runs but the second video clearly shows that this diesel burning pickup ran an awesome 9.18 at 147.46 miles per hour. We don’t see what the Mustang runs but we know that it was much, much slower than this heavy duty Ram pickup!
"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.
