{"id":63047,"date":"2022-07-18T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=63047"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:21","slug":"pruett-powers-to-win-at-dodge-power-brokers-mile-high-nationals-tony-stewart-racing-earns-first-top-fuel-wally-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/07\/pruett-powers-to-win-at-dodge-power-brokers-mile-high-nationals-tony-stewart-racing-earns-first-top-fuel-wally-trophy.html","title":{"rendered":"Pruett Powers to Win at Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals; Tony Stewart Racing Earns First Top Fuel Wally Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leah\nPruett drove her Dodge Power Brokers dragster from the No. 3 qualifier position\nto the winner\u2019s circle in front of a full house at Bandimere Speedway to earn\nTony Stewart Racing\u2019s (TSR) first Top Fuel Wally trophy at the 42nd annual\nDodge Power Brokers National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Mile-High Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCongratulations\nto Leah Pruett on powering her Dodge Power Brokers Top Fuel dragster to her\n10th career win and Tony Stewart Racing\u2019s first Top Fuel victory at our\nheadline event,\u201d said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge Brand Chief Executive Officer –\nStellantis. \u201cLeah\u2019s victory today demonstrates the hard work, dedication, and\ntenacity that she and her team put into every race, the kind of performance\nthat Dodge\/\/SRT\u00ae<\/sup> is known for, and what enthusiasts can expect from Dodge Power\nBrokers and Direct Connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruett\u2019s\nvictory, her second (2018) at the picturesque dragstrip known as Thunder\nMountain, was her first with her new team and solidified her place in the Top\nFuel Top-10 by jumping from tenth to sixth place in the championship standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruett\nbegan her drive to conquer the mountain from her third place position on the\neliminations ladder and a solid opening round win over No. 14 seed Antron\nBrown. She went on to turn on win lights in the quarterfinals after both she\nand No. 6 qualifier Clay Millican hazed the tires at midtrack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In\nthe semifinals, Pruett had a lightning fast reaction time of 0.015 seconds\nagainst No. 2 qualifier Justin Ashley on her way to recording her quickest run\nof the day with a 3.879-second elapsed time run at 317.94 mph to advance to her\nfirst final elimination this season and the 19th of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\ncould have been an exciting final round battle against No. 12 seed Shawn\nLangdon turned into a solo run after her opponent\u2019s dragster broke on the\nburnout. Pruett, however, opted to demonstrate her Dodge Power Broker\ndragster\u2019s performance and show fans just how much progress the team has made\nthis year with a stout 3.884 second elapsed time run at 316.38 mph to leave no\ndoubt in her team\u2019s ability to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis\nis everything,\u201d said Pruett of the Wally trophy she held in her arms. \u201cThis\nbeing the Dodge Power Brokers (MIle-High) Nationals we brokered that Dodge\npower all week long. My crew has been flawless all weekend long and couldn\u2019t be\nmore proud to do this in front of these Denver Fans. I\u2019ll say two things; this\nview never gets old. Also, this is the first Top Fuel win for Tony Stewart\nRacing and that will also never get old.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TSR\nFunny Car driver Matt Hagan, who has three wins of his own this season aboard\nthe Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT Hellcat, came into the weekend looking to\nrepeat his 2021 performance at Bandimere Speedway when he powered from the No.\n1 qualifier position to his first coveted win at the Dodge Power Brokers\nMile-High Nationals. The defending winner looked poised to do that after\ntopping three of four qualifying sessions on his way to securing the No. 1\nqualifier position for the second consecutive year and his fourth of the\nseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In\nthe opening round of eliminations, Hagan lined up his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat\nnext to No. 14 seed Jack Wyatt and was first off the starting line when his\nride began to lose traction. While he attempted to pedal it, he wasn\u2019t able to\nregain control quickly enough and saw his hopes of advancing go up in tire\nsmoke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite\nthe rare first round loss, Hagan remains second in the Funny Car standings and\nwithin 95 points of his rival Robert Hight who won the 2022 Dodge Power Brokers\nMile-High Nationals event title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After having earned a spot in the top half of the Funny Car\neliminations ladder in every event this season with his Snap-on Tools Dodge\nCharger SRT Hellcat, Cruz Pedregon had a bit more of a challenging time on\nThunder Mountain through qualifying and landed in the ninth spot to start his\nrace day. The two-time Funny Car event winner at the Dodge Power Brokers\nMile-High Nationals lined up next to No. 6 seed J.R. Todd for his opening round\npairing but had a cylinder out that ended his day prematurely. Pedregon drops\none spot to sixth in the Funny Car points battle with five more events\nremaining before the \u201cCountdown to the Championship\u201d playoffs series begins.\n\n\n\nThe\nnext stops on the NHRA\u2019s three consecutive event western swing are at Sonoma\nRaceway in California for the Sonoma Nationals July 22-24 and then Pacific\nRaceways for the Northwest Nationals near Seattle, Washington, July 29-31.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leah Pruett drove her Dodge Power Brokers dragster from the No. 3 qualifier position to the winner\u2019s circle in front of a full house at Bandimere Speedway to earn Tony Stewart Racing\u2019s (TSR) first Top Fuel Wally trophy at the 42nd annual Dodge Power Brokers National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Mile-High Nationals. \u201cCongratulations to Leah Pruett on powering her Dodge Power Brokers Top Fuel dragster to her 10th career win and Tony Stewart Racing\u2019s first Top Fuel victory at our headline event,\u201d said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge Brand Chief Executive Officer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":63049,"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-63047","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\/07\/LeahMileHigh_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\/63047"}],"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=63047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63071,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63047\/revisions\/63071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}