{"id":60267,"date":"2022-03-14T07:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60267"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:41","slug":"hagan-drives-dodge-power-brokers-funny-car-to-his-first-nhra-gatornationals-win-and-first-victory-for-tony-stewart-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/03\/hagan-drives-dodge-power-brokers-funny-car-to-his-first-nhra-gatornationals-win-and-first-victory-for-tony-stewart-racing.html","title":{"rendered":"Hagan Drives Dodge Power Brokers Funny Car to His First NHRA Gatornationals Win and First Victory for Tony Stewart Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony\nStewart Racing pilot Matt Hagan drove the Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT\u00ae<\/sup>\nHellcat to his first-ever National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World\nDrag Racing Series\u2019 Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals win and provided his team\nwith their first nitro victory. Hagan earned the coveted Gatornationals Wally\ntrophy in his 14th attempt after powering his way through the elimination\nrounds to advance to the team\u2019s second consecutive final round appearance in\njust its third national event and reached a 40th career Funny Car victory\nmilestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCongratulations\nto Matt Hagan and the Tony Stewart Racing team for their first win of the 2022\nseason aboard the Dodge Power Brokers Funny Car at the NHRA Gatornationals,\u201d\nsaid Tim Kuniskis, Dodge Brand Chief Executive Officer – Stellantis. \u201cIt\u2019s\ngreat to see Matt earn his 40th career win and continue to demonstrate what\nDodge\/\/SRT performance looks like and what enthusiasts can expect from Dodge\nPower Brokers and Direct Connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Our\nNHRA Nitro team is appreciative of the long-standing relationship our drivers\nMatt Hagan and Leah Pruett have had with Dodge\/\/SRT and Mopar\u00ae<\/sub>,\u201d said team owner\nTony Stewart. \u201cEveryone in racing knows the value of OEM support and its\nimportance to a team\u2019s success, so we’re pleased to have that relationship with\nDodge in drag racing and how that quickly culminated in our first Funny Car win\nat the NHRA Gatornationals.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TSR\u2019s\nfirst national event win puts Stewart on an exclusive list of team owners with\nvictories in both NHRA and NASCAR series that includes Ray Beadle, Kenny\nBernstein, Joe Gibbs, and Jack Roush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After\nwet and unseasonably cold weather disrupted most of the weekend schedule and\nlimited qualifying to just one session for the nitro categories, Hagan\u2019s sole\nqualifying pass of 3.898 seconds at 320.13 mph put the Dodge Power Brokers\nFunny Car No. 4 on the eliminations ladder for the 53rd edition of the famed event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His\nopening round pairing against No. 13 seed Dave Richards saw him launch his\n11,000-horsepower machine off the line first, but an immediate loss of traction\nhad Hagan skillfully pedaling it before regaining control and turning on the\nfirst win light. A solo run in the quarterfinals after Terry Haddock broke on\nthe burnout was followed by a solid 3.894-second run at 332.84 mph to defeat\nChad Green and advance to the final elimination. Hagan powered to a\n3.910-second \/ 330.96 mph run aboard his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat to defeat\nNo. 6 seed Blake Alexander and earn the win he had been looking forward to\nproviding his new team and the trophy he had yearned for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cTo\nget this first win at the Gatornationals and Tony Stewart\u2019s first win in a drag\ncar, it\u2019s pretty awesome,\u201d said the three-time NHRA Funny Car World Champion.\n\u201cHe wants to be here, and it says a lot for our sport. It was a good weekend\nfor Tony, a good weekend for NHRA and I\u2019m just very blessed and humbled to be\nhere. I want to make sure I\u2019m showing up on the starting line and doing my part\nand I just know what this team is capable of. It\u2019s a lot of tough competition,\nbut as a driver that\u2019s exciting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt just was a big weekend for me personally because I\u2019ve been\nwanting to win this race and check it off on my career box, and I think this\nallows me to accomplish everything I\u2019ve ever set out to do in NHRA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday\u2019s\naction asl saw No. 3 qualifier Cruz Pedregon take his Snap-On Tools Dodge\nCharger SRT Hellcat Funny Car for another solid drive recording a 3.914-second\nrun at 326.95 mph in the opening round to turn the win lights on against No. 14\nseed Jim Campbell and advance to the quarter finals. Pedregon staged his\nHEMI\u00ae<\/sup>-powered machine next to No. 6 seed Blake Alexander, but hit the throttle\ntoo soon, turning on the red-light and ending his run through eliminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nweather delays and the shortening of Top Fuel qualifying to just one session,\nthe remaining two elimination rounds of the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star\nCallout has been rescheduled to take place at the Dodge Power Brokers U.S.\nNationals in Indianapolis in September. Unfortunately, TSR pilot Leah Pruett\u2019s\ntraction issues in the first round of the specialty race eliminated her from\nadvancing and also meant that her sole qualifying lap aboard the Dodge Power\nBrokers dragster wasn\u2019t going to provide her the chance to stage for the\nelimination rounds. The team will refocus their efforts on the upcoming NHRA\nFour-Wide Nationals set to take place at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway\nApril 1-3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record-breaking\nperformances in the only Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown (FSS)\nqualifying session on Saturday were highlighted by the 2021 Dodge Challenger\nMopar Drag Pak setting the category\u2019s quickest and fastest run ever. An impressive 7.608-second\nelapsed time pass at 183.15 mph by Mark Pawuk and his Empaco Equipment Mopar\nDrag Pak reset both ends of the national record and put him in the No. 1\nqualifier position. \n\nPawuk\u2019s HEMI-powered\nmachine had a red-light start in the quarterfinals to end his day, while No. 3\nqualifier Warren Walcher advanced his 2021 Mopar Drag Pak to the semi finals in\njust his second FSS competition after his posting his own impressive qualifying\nperformance(7.669 sec.\/180.79 mph) which also was quicker than the previous\nnational elapsed time record (7.718 seconds). Ultimately, Walcher\u2019s efforts\nwere all for not when a technical issue hampered his team\u2019s ability to make the\ncall to stage for another round of competition.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Stewart Racing pilot Matt Hagan drove the Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat to his first-ever National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World Drag Racing Series\u2019 Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals win and provided his team with their first nitro victory. Hagan earned the coveted Gatornationals Wally trophy in his 14th attempt after powering his way through the elimination rounds to advance to the team\u2019s second consecutive final round appearance in just its third national event and reached a 40th career Funny Car victory milestone. \u201cCongratulations to Matt Hagan and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60281,"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-60267","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\/GatornatsHaganWin_Feature.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\/60267"}],"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=60267"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61341,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60267\/revisions\/61341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}