{"id":15649,"date":"2018-04-23T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=15649"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:09","slug":"mopar-dodge-srt-notes-quotes-nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series-springnationals-baytown-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2018\/04\/mopar-dodge-srt-notes-quotes-nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series-springnationals-baytown-texas.html","title":{"rendered":"Mopar®<\/sub> Dodge\/\/SRT®<\/sup> Notes & Quotes NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series: SpringNationals, Baytown, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leah Pritchett, Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> Dodge Top Fuel Dragster<\/u><\/strong> No. 1 Qualifier \u2013 3.680 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a Six Flags roller coaster adventure of a weekend. I can say going to the semis has done a lot for our team. We qualified No. 1, which was definitely no fluke, and we found two ways to win in the first two rounds, and that\u2019s one small leap for the Mopar\u00ae<\/sub>\/U.S. Army team. We\u2019ll take this and we\u2019ll not really lick our wounds too much because we found a lot of progress. Yes, we wanted to defend our race win here from last year and it stings that we didn\u2019t but, within minutes of coming back and debriefing after the semifinals, we found the cohesiveness of this team is very strong and will carry us a long way the rest of this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Beckman, Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>No. 4 Qualifier \u2013 3.918 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Interestingly enough, it’s the first time since deep into last year where we probably didn’t have one of the best cars on the property, yet we still left with the third most points of anyone this weekend. These are the kinds of outings that will win the championship; when you can overachieve relative to your performance, because trust me, these guys will have this thing figured out and we’ll be thundering again in Charlotte, where we’re right back to a four-wide format. It’s a good time of year to be a Funny Car driver and we leave with the points lead.”<\/p>\n

Matt Hagan, Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car<\/b>\u00a0<\/u>No. 3 Qualifier \u2013 3.913 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little tricky track with new asphalt out there, just a lot of variables to deal with. We had six great runs up to that point and it just wore too much clutch and pulled the tires loose out there. A lot of times, it just loops the tires and I can drive through it, but it just blew them off pretty hard and there was no real recovery. When you\u2019ve got a guy like Wilkerson running 97 beside you and you have identical lights basically, it\u2019s kind of tough to make it up. That\u2019s Houston for us. I got my first win here so it\u2019s kind of a special place for me but we\u2019re moving on. We have Four-Wide (Charlotte) coming up and trying to get focused on that because it\u2019s a whole different ballgame again, like Vegas was. I don\u2019t have the greatest record at Four-Wides, so I need to focus and do well. Hopefully, we\u2019ll get back out here. We need to start winning soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tommy Johnson Jr., Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>No. 7 Qualifier \u2013 3.926 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe conditions out here are so tricky and today was a perfect example of \u2018wrong place at the wrong time.\u2019 We made a nice run, fifth quickest of the round, but came up short. That\u2019s part of the luck in racing sometimes. We have a really good racecar, we went down the track when a lot of them didn\u2019t, so we\u2019re not going to change anything. We\u2019ll just go on to the next one, keep doing what we\u2019re doing and it\u2019ll come to us.”<\/p>\n

Ron Capps, NAPA Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car<\/b>\u00a0<\/u>No. 14 Qualifier \u2013 4.077 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe really put ourselves in a hole during qualifying, but you\u2019ve heard me brag about (crew chief Rahn) Tobler and our team time and time again. No matter where we qualify, I think we have a fighting chance, and I wouldn\u2019t want to be the guy or gal in the other lane racing our NAPA car on Sunday morning. Having Hagan first round was not the plan, especially as good as they\u2019ve been running this weekend, but we went up there and were out in front of them initially. Then the car quit at about 650-feet, and we\u2019re working to figure out why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tony Schumacher, U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>No. 3 Qualifier \u2013 3.703 ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBig picture, we\u2019re tied for the points lead and that\u2019s a good thing. Most importantly, we have a really good U.S. Army car. This morning, when the conditions were cool, I thought nobody was going to beat us here. It got quite a bit hotter than we thought and, still, we were ultra close. The good thing is we go right from here to another one. It wasn\u2019t like we got beat in the first round. We held our own, we got good points this weekend, separated from a lot of people in the standings. It\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n

2018 NHRA Championship \u2014 Point Standings After Round 5 of 24\u00a0<\/strong>(Season Wins in Parentheses)<\/p>\n

NHRA Top Fuel\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Steve Torrence (2) \u2013 385<\/li>\n
  2. Tony Schumacher, Mopar HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> \u2013 385<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Antron Brown \u2013 324<\/li>\n
  4. Clay Millican \u2013 309<\/li>\n
  5. Doug Kalitta (1) \u2013 304<\/li>\n
  6. Leah Pritchett, Mopar Dodge HEMI \u2013\u00a0284<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Brittany Force (1) \u2013 270<\/li>\n
  8. Richie Crampton (1) \u2013 247<\/li>\n
  9. Terry McMillen \u2013 240<\/li>\n
  10. Scott Palmer \u2013 214<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    NHRA Funny Car<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Jack Beckman, Dodge Charger R\/T (1) \u2013 415<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Matt Hagan, Dodge Charger R\/T (1) \u2013 363<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. J.R. Todd (2) \u2013 347<\/li>\n
    4. Courtney Force (1) \u2013 342<\/li>\n
    5. Robert Hight \u2013 326<\/li>\n
    6. Tommy Johnson Jr., Dodge Charger R\/T \u2013 298<\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. Ron Capps, Dodge Charger R\/T \u2013 289<\/strong><\/li>\n
    8. Shawn Langdon \u2013 237<\/li>\n
    9. Jonnie Lindberg \u2013 221<\/li>\n
    10. Del Worsham \u2013 219<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Leah Pritchett, Mopar\u00ae Dodge Top Fuel Dragster No. 1 Qualifier \u2013 3.680 ET \u201cIt was definitely a Six Flags roller coaster adventure of a weekend. I can say going to the semis has done a lot for our team. We qualified No. 1, which was definitely no fluke, and we found two ways to win in the first two rounds, and that\u2019s one small leap for the Mopar\u00ae\/U.S. Army team. We\u2019ll take this and we\u2019ll not really lick our wounds too much because we found a lot of progress. Yes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":15673,"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-15649","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\/2018\/04\/Springnats_Quotes_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\/15649"}],"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=15649"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59134,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions\/59134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}