{"id":13804,"date":"2017-08-02T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivesrt.com\/news\/?p=13804"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:36","slug":"mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-sonoma-nhra-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2017\/08\/mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-sonoma-nhra-nationals.html","title":{"rendered":"Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>\/Dodge NHRA Sportsman Spotlight: Sonoma NHRA Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scheitlin and Jenkins Earn Dodge Top Finisher Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Close to 20 vehicles featuring Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> power competed in the Stock Eliminator category during the 30th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals, while Mopar was under the hood of nearly a dozen machines in the Super Stock ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Two Mopar-powered cars appeared in the semifinals of the Stock category, with Brighton, Colorado\u2019s Dwayne Scheitlin going to the final round in his A\/SA 1971 Dodge Challenger featuring a 440 cubic-inch engine. Scheitlin made a lap of 10.116 seconds at 129.27 mph on a 10.11 dial-in after leaving with a .045-second reaction time. It was Scheitlin\u2019s first appearance in a national event final round, but he came up just short despite nearly running his dial-in time.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Jenkins of Ripon, California, turned in the best performance among Mopar drivers in Super Stock, driving to the third round in his SS\/AH \u201968 Plymouth Barracuda. There, he turned in a pass of 8.673 at 138.88 on an 8.61 dial-in. He left the starting line with a reaction time of just .004.<\/p>\n<p>Scheitlin and Jenkins each earned the Dodge Top Finisher award at the event. The program provides $500 to the Stock and Super Stock driver advancing the farthest in a Dodge or Plymouth vehicle and is in place at all 24 NHRA national events this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheitlin and Jenkins Earn Dodge Top Finisher Honors Close to 20 vehicles featuring Mopar\u00ae power competed in the Stock Eliminator category during the 30th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals, while Mopar was under the hood of nearly a dozen machines in the Super Stock ranks. Two Mopar-powered cars appeared in the semifinals of the Stock category, with Brighton, Colorado\u2019s Dwayne Scheitlin going to the final round in his A\/SA 1971 Dodge Challenger featuring a 440 cubic-inch engine. Scheitlin made a lap of 10.116 seconds at 129.27 mph on a 10.11 dial-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":13815,"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-13804","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\/08\/sonoma-sportsman-spotlight-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\/13804"}],"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=13804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13817,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions\/13817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}