2026 Dodge Charger Drag Pak makes first pass at Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection

From under a black costume of stealth at midday on Halloween, Dodge served the crowd at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the first-ever public launch of the 2026 Charger Drag Pak. No lights. No clocks. No numbers to chase. Just raw race Hemi horsepower in the desert sun. 

The camouflaged next-generation Charger rolled into the beams at the Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals.  The fans sensed it. Heads tilted. Phones rose. The kind of stillness that only comes right before history is made. Then the next-generation Charger Drag Pak cut the silence in half. With the crack of the throttle, the blower whine—none outside the SRT skunkworks has ever heard the new Charger with blown Hemi power.

The Drag Pak didn’t tiptoe into this world. It punched its existence into the pavement. And it didn’t need a time slip to tell the truth — the truth came off the starting line. You could feel it in your sternum. You could see it in the crowds’ eyes. You could hear it in the way people exhaled only after the Hemi screamed to the top end.

This wasn’t a “sneak peek.” This was a resurrection.  

The all-new Drag Pak — modern body, heritage backbone — is the next evolution of Dodge’s factory-built American drag cars. A new silhouette, new engineering, familiar mission: Go fast. Win races. Defend the brand and the customers who believe in it. 

It looked right sitting in the staging beams under bright desert daylight — exactly where Dodge’s fiercest machines are born and judged.