{"id":13727,"date":"2017-06-26T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivesrt.com\/news\/?p=13727"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:37","slug":"mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-thunder-valley-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2017\/06\/mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-thunder-valley-nationals.html","title":{"rendered":"Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>\/Dodge NHRA Sportsman Spotlight: Thunder Valley Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leach and Cotton are Top Dodge Finishers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dodge and Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> had a stellar day in the Sportsman ranks at Bristol Dragway during the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, with Baltimore\u2019s John Leach taking his C\/SA 1969 Plymouth Road Runner to the final round of Stock Eliminator. There, Leach went red, giving the win to opponent Jimmy Hidalgo Jr. Leach, however, still turned in a very solid pass of 10.790 seconds at 122.19 mph on a 10.88 dial-in. He defeated fellow Mopar competitor Larry Hill of Hickory, Kentucky, and his A\/SA 1970 Plymouth Barracuda to advance to the final, while also being named the Dodge Top Finisher of the event.<\/p>\n<p>In the Super Stock ranks, Mike Cotten of Cave Creek, Arizona, powered his GT\/JA \u201970 Plymouth Barracuda to the third round, where he broke out with a pass of 10.157 seconds at 127.81 mph on a 10.17 dial-in. Although his day ended on Saturday, Cotten still claimed his third Dodge Top Finisher award of 2017 as the top-performing Mopar Super Stock pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodge Top Finisher is in place at all 24 NHRA national events and goes to the Dodge or Plymouth driver advancing the farthest in both Stock and Super Stock.<\/p>\n<p>For the second week in a row, Stock Eliminator competitors also battled for class wins, with four cars featuring Mopar power driving to victory. Travis Hess of Martinsburg, West Virginia, won A\/SA in his \u201964 Dodge; Jack Zimmerman from Clemmons, North Carolina, claimed B\/SA with a \u201971 Challenger; David Collette of Perryville, Maryland, took the FS\/C Wally in an \u201911 Challenger; and Leach won C\/SA in his \u201969 Road Runner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leach and Cotton are Top Dodge Finishers Dodge and Mopar\u00ae had a stellar day in the Sportsman ranks at Bristol Dragway during the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, with Baltimore\u2019s John Leach taking his C\/SA 1969 Plymouth Road Runner to the final round of Stock Eliminator. There, Leach went red, giving the win to opponent Jimmy Hidalgo Jr. Leach, however, still turned in a very solid pass of 10.790 seconds at 122.19 mph on a 10.88 dial-in. He defeated fellow Mopar competitor Larry Hill of Hickory, Kentucky, and his A\/SA 1970 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":13738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[528,849,615],"class_list":["post-13727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-dsr","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thunder-valley-thumb.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13740,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13727\/revisions\/13740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}