{"id":25909,"date":"2019-07-20T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=25909"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:20","slug":"dodge-mile-high-nationals-friday-nitro-sessions-recap-and-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2019\/07\/dodge-mile-high-nationals-friday-nitro-sessions-recap-and-gallery.html","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Mile-High Nationals Friday Nitro Sessions Recap and Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cruz Pedregon raced his Mopar-powered Snap-On Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car to the provisional No. 1 qualifying position Friday evening at the Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals Presented by Pennzoil at Bandimere Speedway near Denver.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Pedregon and Don Schumacher Racing driver Ron Capps posted the fastest two runs of the second session to lead six Mopar-powered Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car drivers in the preliminary ladder for Sunday\u2019s elimination rounds. Pedregon\u2019s pass of 4.002 seconds at 317.42 mph narrowly edged out Capps\u2019 lap of 4.005\/316.97<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Matt Hagan paced the opening session, debuting his new Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody Funny Car to capture three qualifying points, while Jim Campbell, Tommy Johnson, Jr. and Jack Beckman made qualifying passes to put them in the provisional field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;In Top Fuel, reigning Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals champion Leah Pritchett qualified the DSR 1320 Angry Bee-schemed Dodge Mopar Top Fuel dragster second with her run of 3.839 seconds at 330.31 mph in Friday\u2019s second session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25909 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><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\/2019\/07\/001-PRITCHETT.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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Pedregon\u2019s pass of 4.002 seconds at 317.42 mph narrowly edged out Capps\u2019 lap of 4.005\/316.97 &nbsp;Matt Hagan paced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":25910,"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-25909","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\/2019\/07\/feature-21.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\/25909"}],"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=25909"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43531,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions\/43531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}