{"id":14023,"date":"2017-11-15T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivesrt.com\/news\/?p=14023"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:13","slug":"mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-nhra-finals-williams-and-irving-earn-dodge-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2017\/11\/mopardodge-nhra-sportsman-spotlight-nhra-finals-williams-and-irving-earn-dodge-dollars.html","title":{"rendered":"Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>\/Dodge NHRA Sportsman Spotlight: NHRA Finals Williams and Irving Earn Dodge Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> Sportsman competitors turned in exceptionally strong efforts in both the Stock and Super Stock Eliminator categories at the NHRA Finals, including a win in Stock by former world champion Austin Williams. Three of the four semifinalists in the category drove Mopar-powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who hails from Burleson, Texas, took his eighth national event Wally trophy in Stock behind the wheel of his G\/SA 1972 Plymouth Duster 340. In the final, he turned in a lap of 11.080 seconds at 109.61 mph, exactly running his 11.08 dial-in. Williams left the line with a .025-second reaction time. He bettered opponent Chris Stephenson&#8217;s 10.620 at 122.56, who had a reaction time of .054. Stephenson&#8217;s dial-in was 10.64, meaning he broke out by .020.<\/p>\n<p>In Super Stock Eliminator, Jon Irving of Henderson, Nevada, turned in the best effort for Mopar, reaching the third round in his SS\/MA 1980 Dodge Aspen. In the round, Irving made a pass of 11.177 at 113.96 on an 11.19 dial-in, breaking out by .013. He left the starting line with a .036 reaction time. The vehicle is powered by a 318 cubic-inch engine and features a four-barrel carburetor. It has always been a racecar and only has 25 street miles.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and Irving each claimed the Dodge Top Finisher award of their respective categories. The program was in place at all 24 national events in 2017, and provided a $500 bonus to the Stock Eliminator and Super Stock Eliminator driver who advanced the farthest in a Dodge or Plymouth vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Troy Johnston of Keyport, Washington, took the Sportsman ET win in a &#8217;72 Duster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mopar\u00ae Sportsman competitors turned in exceptionally strong efforts in both the Stock and Super Stock Eliminator categories at the NHRA Finals, including a win in Stock by former world champion Austin Williams. Three of the four semifinalists in the category drove Mopar-powered vehicles. Williams, who hails from Burleson, Texas, took his eighth national event Wally trophy in Stock behind the wheel of his G\/SA 1972 Plymouth Duster 340. In the final, he turned in a lap of 11.080 seconds at 109.61 mph, exactly running his 11.08 dial-in. Williams left the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":14025,"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-14023","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\/11\/sportsman-spotlight-nationals-thumb.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023"}],"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=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14026,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14023\/revisions\/14026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}