{"id":17974,"date":"2018-07-19T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:25:02","slug":"wicked-fast-new-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-nhra-funny-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2018\/07\/wicked-fast-new-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-nhra-funny-car.html","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Fast: New Dodge Charger SRT<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Hellcat NHRA Funny Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new, wickedly quick, Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>-powered National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Funny Car version of the Dodge Charger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat is coming soon to a drag strip near you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17990 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-001.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-001-614x289.jpg 614w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-001-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-001-700x329.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new 2019 Mopar Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat NHRA Funny Car body will make its competition debut this weekend at the Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals Powered by Mopar at Bandimere Speedway near Denver, July 20-22. The Dodge\/\/SRT and Mopar brands will show the new body for the first time this afternoon during a pre-race press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job at Mopar is to put the best racecar underneath our drivers and keep them winning. We know this new body, developed in collaboration with the Dodge\/\/SRT brand and Don Schumacher Racing, will do just that,\u201d said Pietro Gorlier, Head of Parts and Service (Mopar), FCA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/280731380\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) Funny Car driver Matt Hagan will be the first to harness the new 10,000-plus-horsepower beast. \u201cThis new Funny Car body is something that Mopar and Dodge\/\/SRT have put a lot of work and support behind, from R&amp;D to wind tunnel testing,\u201d said Hagan.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17974 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-002-220x220.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mopar and Dodge SRT Hellcat\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-003-220x220.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mopar Pennzoil engine\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-004.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-004-220x220.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"aerodynamics of the Mopar SRT Hellcat\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The new body features major design changes in three key areas: the front end, bodysides and burst panel placement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made four good, solid runs in testing at Norwalk,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cWe put the body through a lot of different things and were really, really pleased with it. I really think it\u2019s going to translate over to performance on the race track, and hopefully more win lights in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, wickedly quick, Mopar\u00ae-powered National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Funny Car version of the Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat is coming soon to a drag strip near you. The new 2019 Mopar Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat NHRA Funny Car body will make its competition debut this weekend at the Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals Powered by Mopar at Bandimere Speedway near Denver, July 20-22. The Dodge\/\/SRT and Mopar brands will show the new body for the first time this afternoon during a pre-race press conference. \u201cOur job at Mopar is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":17988,"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-17974","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\/07\/matt-hagan-livery-thumbnail.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\/17974"}],"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=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59114,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions\/59114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}