Dillon Hodges is an amateur autoduellist with a penchant for driving to win and ignoring his gunner. Nico "Basher" Battaglia, former champion autoduellist needs a crew to compete in the Dead Man''''s Run, a multi-state road rally with a ten-million-dollar prize. When Basher decides to sponsor Dillon for the rally, the young driver has to learn how to work as part of a team if he wants to win. He and his new gunner, Kayla Battaglia, have to negotiate treacherous roads, crazy cycle gangs, unfriendly teammates, and an adversary group that is out for blood in order to complete this first leg from Denver to Salt Lake City.