{"id":16431,"date":"2018-05-22T07:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=16431"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:06","slug":"burnouts-in-bowling-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2018\/05\/burnouts-in-bowling-green.html","title":{"rendered":"Burnouts in Bowling Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smoke has finally cleared at the 17th Annual NMCA Bluegrass Nationals<\/a> at Beech Bend Motorsports Park<\/a> in Bowling Green, Kentucky. For our HEMI\u00ae<\/sup>-powered participants competing in the Dodge\/Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> HEMI Shootout, they\u2019ve already headed home and began to clean off the mounds of leftover rubber from their Mickey\/Thompson, Nitto or Hoosier drag radials splattered on the rear quarter panels. Many have carefully recorded all their runs in a logbook and are now showing off their time slips to their fellow gearhead friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n

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Among the winners at this year\u2019s NMCA Bluegrass Nationals, Steve Best\u2019s \u201918 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Demon was devilishly quick when it was the only car in the 10-second zone and averaged 10.442-seconds in the quarter-mile for the big win. J Orrand\u2019s \u201916 SRT Hellcat was crowned the runner-up as it averaged 11.209-seconds.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jenny McClain went home a winner for the 11-second bunch; Trenton Smith won the 12-second honors; Travis McKenne won for the 13-second drivers; Michael Oellrich walked away on top for the 14-second group; and Don Fielder finished the weekend on a high note in the 15-second pack.<\/p>\n

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The folks from GRUDGE RACE! were also at the NMCA Bluegrass Nationals. Creator Stephen Pullin, whose list of impressive TV shows includes PINKS<\/i> and PINKS All-Out<\/i>, matched up some heavy-hitters at Beech Bend Raceway Park to talk smack and hit the strip. With host Willie B being the instigator, we had some memorable Mopar match-ups that included YouTube sensation Todd \u201cSRTMush\u201d and his 2018 Challenger SRT Demon, and his wife\u2019s 2016 Charger SRT Hellcat. Dodge Garage will have a follow-up feature on this epic husband and wife grudge race that will test the bounds of their marriage.<\/p>\n

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In the Holley EFI Factory Super Cars category, Geoff Turk – in his record-smashing, seven-second 2015 Dodge Challenger Mopar Drag Pak \u201cBlackbird\u201d – qualified in the top half of the 16-car field. The lone Mopar was up against a pack of Cobra Jet Mustangs and COPO Camaros and was able to go a couple of rounds but was sidelined early during eliminations when his slicks lost traction and he had to lift off the throttle.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re look to get your R\/T, Scat Pack, SRT Hellcat or SRT Demon to the drags, the next NMCA event will be the 13th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA\/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing<\/a> event that is held at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smoke has finally cleared at the 17th Annual NMCA Bluegrass Nationals at Beech Bend Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. For our HEMI\u00ae-powered participants competing in the Dodge\/Mopar\u00ae HEMI Shootout, they\u2019ve already headed home and began to clean off the mounds of leftover rubber from their Mickey\/Thompson, Nitto or Hoosier drag radials splattered on the rear quarter panels. Many have carefully recorded all their runs in a logbook and are now showing off their time slips to their fellow gearhead friends and neighbors. Among the winners at this year\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":16453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[528,905],"class_list":["post-16431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-nmca"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/thumbnail-9.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\/16431"}],"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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16431"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43951,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16431\/revisions\/43951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}