{"id":40561,"date":"2020-07-19T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=40561"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:39","slug":"pair-of-no-2-qualifying-positions-for-mopar-dodge-srt-machines-at-nhra-summernationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2020\/07\/pair-of-no-2-qualifying-positions-for-mopar-dodge-srt-machines-at-nhra-summernationals.html","title":{"rendered":"Pair of No. 2 Qualifying Positions for Mopar®<\/sub> Dodge\/\/SRT®<\/sup> Machines at NHRA Summernationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coming off a Funny Car event win last weekend at Indianapolis, Don Schumacher Racing\u2019s (DSR) contingent of Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> Dodge SRT\u00ae<\/sup>-sponsored entries came back firing on all cylinders to earn a pair of No. 2 qualifying positions at the Lucas Oil NHRA Summmernationals, as National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Mello Yello Drag Racing Series competition returns to the \u201cCrossroads of America\u201d as part of the new rescheduled season plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DSR Top Fuel pilot Leah Pruett showed off a new demon-red Hellcat Redeye paint-scheme by putting her Mopar Dodge Charger SRT second on the Top-Fuel eliminations ladder, while Funny Car driver Tommy Johnson Jr. came close to repeating his top qualifying effort from last week, eventually settling into the No. 2 spot going into Sunday\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnson Jr.\u2019s second qualifying run of 4.017 seconds at 300.86 mph took him to the top of the timing sheets, and while it looked like he might repeat last week\u2019s performance as top qualifier, Bob Tasca bumped the MD Anderson Dodge from the No. 1 spot later in the session. As No.2 qualifier, Johnson Jr. will face Bob Bode as his first round opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DSR teammates Ron Capps and Jack Beckman, winner of the 2020 season opening event, both secured lane choice for their opening rounds of eliminations with their No. 4 and No. 6 positions respectively in qualifying. Beckman will see Chad Green in first round action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capps, who was second quickest in the first qualifying session, will be paired up with DSR teammate Matt Hagan, winner of last week\u2019s E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Nationals. With the shortening of qualifying to just two sessions with the new season schedule, Hagan had little room for error to make the field after a difficult first run, but safely put his new-look Mopar Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye in the show on his final pass no put him .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Top\nFuel No.2 qualifier Pruett earned bonus points for her Mopar Dodge SRT dragster\nby posting runs that put her in the top-three on the timing sheets in both\nsessions. She\u2019ll see Lex Joon in the first round of eliminations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pruett\nwill have two opportunities to fight for a Wally on Sunday as she pulls double\nduty this weekend by getting back into her Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Pak for\nFactory Stock Showdown action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The SAMTech.edu NHRA Factory Stock Showdown (FSS) class took to the track for the first time this 2020 season with Pruett, the 2018 champion in the category, and Mark Pawuk get behind the wheel of their Don Schumacher Motorsports-prepared Mopar Dodge Challenger Drag Paks. Both drivers return aboard the same factory-built vehicles with which they finished the 2019 season (at Dallas), when Pruett qualified second and reached the final while Pawuk qualified ninth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking to build off those results, the pair both qualified their Mopar muscle cars for Sunday eliminations. Pawuk qualified 12th on the strength of his first run at 8.078 sec\/170.28 mph and will face no. 5 qualifier Arthur Kohn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruett\u2019s\nsecond elapsed time run of 8.146 sec. \/168.32 mph put her 16th<\/sup> on\nthe eliminations ladder and will see her matched up with No. 1 qualifier Chris\nHolbrook.\n\nElimination rounds at the Lucas Oil NHRA\nSummernationals begin at 9:45 a.m. (ET) on Sunday, July 19, while television\ncoverage will air starting at 12 p.m. (ET) on the FOX national broadcast\nnetwork and will include LIVE final elimination round action.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coming off a Funny Car event win last weekend at Indianapolis, Don Schumacher Racing\u2019s (DSR) contingent of Mopar\u00ae Dodge SRT\u00ae-sponsored entries came back firing on all cylinders to earn a pair of No. 2 qualifying positions at the Lucas Oil NHRA Summmernationals, as National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Mello Yello Drag Racing Series competition returns to the \u201cCrossroads of America\u201d as part of the new rescheduled season plan. DSR Top Fuel pilot Leah Pruett showed off a new demon-red Hellcat Redeye paint-scheme by putting her Mopar Dodge Charger SRT second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":40565,"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-40561","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\/2020\/07\/Leahredeye.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\/40561"}],"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=40561"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59068,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40561\/revisions\/59068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}