{"id":60259,"date":"2022-03-13T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60259"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:41","slug":"top-five-qualifying-performances-for-two-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-funny-cars-and-record-setting-runs-for-mopar-drag-pak-at-nhra-gatornationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/03\/top-five-qualifying-performances-for-two-dodge-charger-srt-hellcat-funny-cars-and-record-setting-runs-for-mopar-drag-pak-at-nhra-gatornationals.html","title":{"rendered":"Top-Five Qualifying Performances for Two Dodge Charger SRT<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> Hellcat Funny Cars and Record Setting Runs for Mopar<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Drag Pak at NHRA Gatornationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wet\nweather canceled Friday qualifying and delayed Saturday\u2019s sessions at the\nNational Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World Drag Racing Series\u2019 53rd\nedition of the Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals and then unseasonably cool\nconditions at Gainesville Raceway further hampered qualifying resulting in just\none run to make&nbsp; the famed race event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nFunny Car action, Cruz Pedregon powered his Snap-On Tools Dodge Charger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\nHellcat down the track with a 3.891-second run at 327.35 mph in the sole\nqualifying session of the weekend to put himself No. 3 on the eliminations\nladder and qualifying in the top-five for a third consecutive event. The Cruz\nPedregon Racing owner and driver will have No. 14 seed JIm Campbell in the lane\nnext to him for the opening round of eliminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tony\nStewart Racing\u2019s Matt Hagan followed up his No. 1 qualifier position and\nrunner-up finish at the Arizona Nationals two weekends ago by taking his Dodge\nPower Brokers Charger SRT Hellcat for a solid 3.898-second elapsed timed pass\nat 320.13 mph in the late afternoon session to secure the No. 4 position on the\neliminations ladder. He\u2019ll have lane choice over No. 13 seed Dave Richards to\nbegin his quest for the TSR team\u2019s first win and his first Gatornationals Wally\ntrophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top\nFuel qualifying featured the opening round of the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel\nAll-Star Callout in which TSR pilot Leah Pruett and the Dodge Power Brokers\ndragster were competing. Pruett, who had been \u201ccalled out\u201d by defending NHRA\nworld champion Steve Torrence, staged her 11,000-horsepower machine for the\nspecialty race ready to battle for the prize money and also set her place on\nthe eliminations ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pruett\nand her Dodge Power Brokers dragster had the slight advance at the hit of the\nthrottle, but she soon found herself peddling it after losing traction. She\nskillfully regained control and continued down the track to record a lap time,\nnot knowing if she would have another session to qualify for Sunday\u2019s main\nevent. Unfortunately, the unseasonably cold weather shortened the day\u2019s\nactivities and another qualifying run was no longer possible, which meant that\nthe 5.125 sec.\/ 227.34 mph recorded pass wasn\u2019t going to be enough to give her\na chance to race on Sunday. This will be the first time since 2013\n(Indianapolis) that Pruett won\u2019t get to stage her race car for eliminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\nthe Gatornationals have had a history of record-breaking performances with one\nof the fastest tracks on the NHRA circuit, Saturday\u2019s cooler weather provided\nsome extra excitement&nbsp; for the 22 Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown\n(FSS) entries vying for the 16 spots on the eliminations ladder as the top half\nof the ladder posted runs that were quicker and faster than the previous\nnational records of 7.718 seconds and 183.10 mph.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among\nthe seven Dodge Challenger Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> Drag Paks making their first qualifying runs\nof the season was Mark Pawuk who powered his 2021 Empaco Equipment Dodge\nChallenger Mopar Drag Pak to an impressive and record setting 7.608-second\nelapsed time run at 183.15 mph to earn his third career No. 1 qualifier\nposition and reset both ends of the nationals record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\nfurther solidify the 2021 Mopar Drag Pak\u2019s reputation as the quickest, fastest,\nand most powerful Challenger Drag Pak ever offered by Stellantis,\nPawuk\u2019s Don\nSchumacher Racing teammate, Warren Walcher, recorded his own impressive\n7.669-second pass at 180.79 mph to earn the No. 3 position in just his second\nFSS competition. The two will not only vie for a Gatornationals win but also for the new $10,000-to-win\nDirect Connection Contingency purse.\n\nThe Gatornationals\neliminations are set to air on FS1 on Sunday, March 13, beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wet weather canceled Friday qualifying and delayed Saturday\u2019s sessions at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World Drag Racing Series\u2019 53rd edition of the Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals and then unseasonably cool conditions at Gainesville Raceway further hampered qualifying resulting in just one run to make&nbsp; the famed race event. In Funny Car action, Cruz Pedregon powered his Snap-On Tools Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat down the track with a 3.891-second run at 327.35 mph in the sole qualifying session of the weekend to put himself No. 3 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[528,615,2992],"class_list":["post-60259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra","tag-tony-stewart-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2211-33523.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\/60259"}],"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=60259"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60441,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60259\/revisions\/60441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}