{"id":45094,"date":"2020-11-01T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=45094"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:11","slug":"final-qualifying-of-2020-season-capps-off-with-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-in-no-1-spot-at-dodge-nhra-finals-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2020\/11\/final-qualifying-of-2020-season-capps-off-with-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-in-no-1-spot-at-dodge-nhra-finals-in-las-vegas.html","title":{"rendered":"Final Qualifying of 2020 Season Capps off with Dodge Charger SRT®<\/sup> Hellcat in No.1 Spot at Dodge NHRA Finals in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The final qualifying sessions of the 2020 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Drag Racing Series season have been completed at the Dodge Finals Presented by Pennzoil with Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) Funny Car pilot Ron Capps taking his Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat to the No. 1 qualifier position. Capps and his DSR teammates, Matt Hagan, Tommy Johnson Jr. and Jack Beckman head into the final eliminations rounds of the season battling for the Funny Car world championship with a points-a-half format to determine the winner among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Capps earned his first\nNo.1 qualifier honors of the season, the 25th<\/sup> of his career, in the\nfinal session with a 3.902-second elapsed time pass at 327.98 mph to dislodge\nthe provisional pole sitter and the defending race winner Hagan. Capps has\ntaken home five Wally trophies (2001, 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2012) from The Strip\nat Las Vegas Speedway and will start his quest for another against Chris Morel\nin the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the qualifying\nresult Capps added four bonus points to his total which has him fourth in the\nstandings that the four DSR Dodge Funny Car have dominated all season-long with\nan undefeated streak of 13 national event wins that stretches back to October\n2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hagan\u2019s 3.911-second\npass at 327.82 mph was enough to keep his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye No.\n2 on the ladder. Looking to secure his third championship title, the Mopar\u00ae<\/sub>\ndriver will begin his drive through eliminations with a first round match\nagainst Cruz Pedregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should he be successful,\nthe biggest challenge of the day could be a quarterfinal pairing with teammate\nand fellow championship contender Beckman who qualified tenth and would need to\nbeat Hagan for his own chance to vie for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnson Jr qualified\nfourth with a solid 3.915-second pass at 319.14 mph aboard his MD Anderson\nDodge Charger SRT Hellcat, earning bonus points in both sessions for posting\nthe fourth and third quickest runs, respectively, and will look to turn on four\nwin lights on Sunday to earn his first Funny Car championship title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trailing the points\nleader by 45 and 52 markers respectively, Johnson and Beckman would both have\nto finish two rounds ahead of Hagan for a chance to win the Funny Car crown.\nWith both on opposite sides of the ladder, that could also set up an all-DSR\nDodge final round showdown for both the national event win and the Funny Car\nworld championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last year\u2019s No. 1 Top Fuel qualifier at the Fall Vegas event, Leah Pruett set the second quickest run in the first session by driving her \u201cDemon-possessed\u201d Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye dragster to a 3.791 sec.\/ 322.04 mph run. That lap was good enough to keep her in the top half of the ladder when her second run didn\u2019t go as planned and will see her line up against Chris Karamesines in the opening round. From her No. 6 position, Leah hopes to make a run for her first event win of the season and boost her back into the top-three in the standings to finish the season in which she was part of the championship conversation until the very end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dodge NHRA Finals presented by Pennzoil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pruett will also close\nout the season with a No. 3 Factory Stock Showdown starting position for her\nDodge Challenger Mopar Drag Pak after setting the second quickest run in the\nfirst session and then improving on her second lap with a 7.976 sec.\/170.00 mph\npass. She\u2019ll meet up with Kevin Skinner in the opposite lane for her first run\non Sunday. \n\nMeanwhile,\nher Factory Stock Showdown DSR Dodge Challenger Mopar Drag Pak teammate Mark\nPawuk, after two difficult qualifying sessions without a clean run, finds\nhimself starting from 15th<\/sup> place on the ladder. He will line up his\nEmpaco Equipment Drag Pak against No. 2 qualifier Aaron Stanfield who clinched\nthe Factory Stock Showdown championship last weekend after their semi-final\nmatch-up at the Mopar Express Lane Spring Nationals. Pawuk will be looking to\nwin that rematch to help him secure a runner-up finish in the Factory Stock\nShowdown championship.

\nThe 2020 NHRA season concludes at the Dodge NHRA Finals in Las Vegas with FS1\nbroadcasting the action on Sunday, Nov. 1. Qualifying highlights will air from\n2-4 p.m. ET and then eliminations from 4- 7 p.m. ET will feature live coverage\nof the final rounds.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final qualifying sessions of the 2020 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Drag Racing Series season have been completed at the Dodge Finals Presented by Pennzoil with Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) Funny Car pilot Ron Capps taking his Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat to the No. 1 qualifier position. Capps and his DSR teammates, Matt Hagan, Tommy Johnson Jr. and Jack Beckman head into the final eliminations rounds of the season battling for the Funny Car world championship with a points-a-half format to determine the winner among them. Capps earned his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":45104,"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-45094","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\/11\/roncappsdodgefinals.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\/45094"}],"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=45094"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59046,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45094\/revisions\/59046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}