{"id":28324,"date":"2019-09-16T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=28324"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:16","slug":"fast-jack-beckman-snatches-an-overdue-win-at-the-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2019\/09\/fast-jack-beckman-snatches-an-overdue-win-at-the-grove.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFast Jack\u201d Beckman Snatches an Overdue Win at the Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year-long winless drought for\n\u201cFast Jack\u201d Beckman finally ended when he drove his Infinite Hero Foundation\nDodge Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Funny Car to victory at the 35th<\/sup> annual\nMopar\u00ae<\/sub> Express Lane Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. This was Jack\u2019s 29th<\/sup> win\nof his illustrious racing career and the third time he\u2019s parked his racecar in\nthe winner\u2019s circle at Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania. It\u2019s a great start to the NHRA Countdown and put some distance between Jack and the competition, but it\nwasn\u2019t without drama that could have gone in a totally opposite direction for the\ndrivers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jack<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When it came down to the Funny Car final round, it was a\nreplay of two weeks ago at the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway\nPark, which pitted Beckman against the 16-time world champ John Force. At Indy,\nBeckman came up on the losing end to Force, but this time, the outcome\nwould be different. During Sunday\u2019s eliminations at the Mopar Express Lane NHRA\nNationals, both Beckman and Force were on opposite sides of the ladder and each\ndriver was going rounds in the march to the final pairing. It was Dodge versus\nFord, Charger versus Camaro, and whoever has the best tune would take home the\ncoveted Wally from the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals. As both Funny Cars\ncame up the line belching nitro from their headers, the fans stood on their\nfeet. At the first flicker of green from the Christmas Tree, Beckman\u2019s Charger was\nout on Force\u2019s Camaro as both machines thundered down Maple Grove Raceway. Beckman\u2019s\nimpressive .028 holeshot reaction time to Force\u2019s .068 probably sealed the deal\nfor the Mopar camp, but there was still a lot of pavement to cover before the\n1,000-foot finish line. As both cars neared the finish line, the gap tightened\nup as Force was gobbling up real estate very quickly. When the clutch dust and\ntire smoke cleared, the fans cheered as the top end score boards showed how\nclose the final was. Beckman\u2019s run of 3.958 seconds at 330.07 mph got the win\nover Force\u2019s 3.952 at 328.78 mph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWinning this one is extra special for a few reasons\nbecause we did it in the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals,\u201d said Beckman.\n\u201cIt\u2019s our first win in the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat body. We took over the\npoints lead, and it\u2019s been way too long since we\u2019ve been to the winner\u2019s\ncircle. For a shot in the arm, for a psychological boost, for that mental edge,\nthat intangible that I think you need to be able to win a championship, this\nmight be the thing that is the first step for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"jack<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How Beckman got to the finals showed just how much grit and\ndetermination the crews have in getting their drivers to the finals. Beckman had\nqualified third, which gave him the ever-important lane choice when he went up\nagainst his opponent, Jim Campbell. Moving on to the quarter-finals, Beckman\ntook down the former world champ, Robert Hight. With the crew getting even more\ndialed in, he rolled back into the staging lanes to face off with J.R. Todd.\nOnce again, lane choice and the right tune-up played a role as Beckman\u2019s\n11,000-horsepower Charger SRT Hellcat went straight down the strip while Todd\u2019s\nGoodyear slicks went up in smoke almost at the hit of the throttle. That would\nset the stage for facing off against Force in the final. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jack<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With Beckman\nputting the competition on the trailer this past weekend, this marked the eighth\nconsecutive race that a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car has raced in the\nfinals. What\u2019s even cooler, the Charger SRT Hellcat has been in 15 of the 19\nfinal Funny Car rounds during the 2019 NHRA season. This is due to the hard work of\nDSR drivers and crews and our SRT engineers that make the Charger SRT Hellcat\nFunny Car body go through air at over 300 mph like a missile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\nother Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car drivers also went\nsome rounds during the Mopar Express Lane Nationals with Ron Capps racing to the\nsemifinals, but it came at the cost of taking out his teammate, Matt Hagan, in\nthe previous round. For Tommy Johnson Jr., he got tripped up in round one and\nlost a close race to his opponent. Over in Top Fuel, Leah Pritchett, in her\nMopar Dragster, went out in the quarterfinals when her 11,000-horsepower machine\nlost traction 150 feet past the starting line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our Dodge\/\/Mopar DSR team will get\nnext weekend off for a much-needed break, an little R&R, and to service\ntheir race equipment before heading off to the second drag race and Countdown\nevent, the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology\nRaceway in Madison, Illinois. The 2019 race season might be winding down, but\nthe competition is just heating up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jack<\/figure>\n\n\n\n



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The year-long winless drought for \u201cFast Jack\u201d Beckman finally ended when he drove his Infinite Hero Foundation Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat Funny Car to victory at the 35th annual Mopar\u00ae Express Lane Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. This was Jack\u2019s 29th win of his illustrious racing career and the third time he\u2019s parked his racecar in the winner\u2019s circle at Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania. It\u2019s a great start to the NHRA Countdown and put some distance between Jack and the competition, but it wasn\u2019t without drama that could have gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":28329,"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-28324","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\/09\/feature-20.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\/28324"}],"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=28324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28345,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28324\/revisions\/28345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}