{"id":13920,"date":"2017-09-18T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivesrt.com\/news\/?p=13920"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:14","slug":"mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-carolina-nationals-zimmerman-and-thurston-collect-dodge-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2017\/09\/mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-carolina-nationals-zimmerman-and-thurston-collect-dodge-rewards.html","title":{"rendered":"Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>\/Dodge NHRA Sportsman Spotlight: Carolina Nationals Zimmerman and Thurston Collect Dodge Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHRA Carolina Nationals featured a deep field of Sportsman competitors, with Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> power turning in solid performances in the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock Eliminator categories.<\/p>\n<p>In Stock Eliminator, Jack Zimmerman of Clemmons, North Carolina, advanced to the third round in his B\/SA 1971 Dodge Challenger R\/T featuring a 440 Six Pack V8. There, he made his best pass of the elimination rounds despite being bested by just two feet.\u00a0Zimmerman turned in a 10.407-second lap on a 10.40 dial-in with a speed of 125.30 mph. He had a .067-second reaction time.<\/p>\n<p>In Super Stock Eliminator, Ray Thurston of Clarence, New York, put his FSS\/H 2009 Challenger in the second round, before bowing out after a pass of 10.198 on a 10.15 dial-in at 123.35. He left the starting line with a reaction time of just .004.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman and Thurston were each named the Dodge Top Finisher of the event. The program provides $500 to the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock Eliminator drivers who advance the farthest at all 24 NHRA national events. Zimmerman also won the award during the Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>In class racing during the Carolina Nationals, David Collette of Perryville, Maryland, took home a Wally trophy with the FSS\/F victory in his &#8217;11 Challenger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHRA Carolina Nationals featured a deep field of Sportsman competitors, with Mopar\u00ae power turning in solid performances in the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock Eliminator categories. In Stock Eliminator, Jack Zimmerman of Clemmons, North Carolina, advanced to the third round in his B\/SA 1971 Dodge Challenger R\/T featuring a 440 Six Pack V8. There, he made his best pass of the elimination rounds despite being bested by just two feet.\u00a0Zimmerman turned in a 10.407-second lap on a 10.40 dial-in with a speed of 125.30 mph. He had a .067-second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[528,615],"class_list":["post-13920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/carolina-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\/13920"}],"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=13920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13924,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions\/13924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}