Team: Matt Hagan’s Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Funny Car<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve been a race fan my whole life. I knew\nfrom a very young age that I wanted to work on a professional race team, and\nthat has always been my end-goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I spent my younger years racing with an NHRA\nJr. drag racing team which afforded me the opportunity to travel around the\ncountry. For an 8-year-old, that\u2019s a pretty incredible experience! When I was\n14, I decided to take it to the next level and volunteered for a lower budget\nteam, which allowed me to expand my skills and learn a ton. I stayed with the\nteam traveling during the summers throughout high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The day I graduated, it was time to put my\ndream into full motion, so I packed up and made the move to Texas to race full-time. Once there, I worked for free for three months and then in August 2004, I\nwas offered a full-time job in Brownsburg, Indiana. I\u2019ve been working at a\nprofessional level ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2013, I was working for John Force Racing and was catching up on other race teams and came across a press release about my former boss, Dickie Venables. He had recently been named Crew Chief for Matt Hagan\u2019s car at Don Schumacher Racing. I sent him a quick \u201ccongratulations!\u201d text that turned into a conversation, which became lunch\u2026and eventually became my new job. I\u2019ve been working with Don Schumacher Racing and the Dodge\/SRT\u00ae<\/sup>\/Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> team ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started on Dickie\u2019s team as a Clutch Specialist\nand now hold the important position of Car Chief. I couldn\u2019t imagine another\nway of life. It\u2019s the life I\u2019ve always wanted, and the life I love. \n\nWhat\nI love most about the job is that I\u2019m never done learning. EVER! Every day\nbrings a new challenge, which forces you to adapt and be nimble. The results\ndrive you because nothing can replicate the feeling of winning. It\u2019s my world\nat its best!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alex Conaway is one of the racing fans who was born, not made. He geared his life choices toward accomplishing his young self’s goal of working on a professional racing team and he’s continuing to rise through the ranks in an industry he loves. Title: Car Chief Team: Matt Hagan’s Mopar\u00ae Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat Funny Car I\u2019ve been a race fan my whole life. I knew from a very young age that I wanted to work on a professional race team, and that has always been my end-goal. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":45423,"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-45419","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\/alexconwayfeature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45419"}],"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=45419"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59159,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45419\/revisions\/59159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Alex-Conaway-1.png\")
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