{"id":63362,"date":"2022-07-25T06:49:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=63362"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:20","slug":"pruett-takes-tony-stewart-racing-dodge-srt-top-fuel-dragster-to-no-1-qualifier-and-quarterfinal-appearance-at-sonoma-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/07\/pruett-takes-tony-stewart-racing-dodge-srt-top-fuel-dragster-to-no-1-qualifier-and-quarterfinal-appearance-at-sonoma-raceway.html","title":{"rendered":"Pruett Takes Tony Stewart Racing Dodge\/\/SRT®<\/sup> Top Fuel Dragster to No. 1 Qualifier and Quarterfinal Appearance at Sonoma Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tony\nStewart Racing (TSR) Top Fuel pilot Leah Pruett followed up last weekend\u2019s win\nat the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals near Denver by rolling into the\n34th annual National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Sonoma Nationals and\nimmediately taking the Rayce Rudeen Foundation Dodge\/\/SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Top Fuel dragster to\nher first No. 1 qualifier position of the season and then driving to a\nquarterfinal appearance in eliminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruett\ntook the top spot on the eliminations ladder by recording a 3.689-second\nelapsed time pass at 327.59 mph on the first of three qualifying laps to earn\nTSR\u2019s first Top Fuel pole position and the 12th of her career. After advancing\nto the final round at Sonoma Raceway last year, Pruett was looking to repeat\nthat journey and kicked off eliminations with a great 0.047-second reaction\ntime and strong 3.729 sec.\/328.86 mph pass against No. 16 seed Jim\nMaroney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In\nthe quarterfinals against No. 9 seed Shawn Langdon, Pruett had another solid\n3.758 sec.\/323.97 mph run, but it wasn\u2019t quite enough to defeat her opponent\u2019s\n3.734 sec.\/330.96 mph pass. Despite the shortened day, Pruett remains sixth in\nthe Top Fuel championship standings, tied with Langdon at 601 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With\nthree wins this season and sitting second in the Funny Car points coming into\nthe second of three consecutive western-swing events, TSR driver Matt Hagan\nstarted off the weekend by taking the DieHard Batteries Dodge Charger SRT\nHellcat for a 4.018-sec.\/314.02 mph pass to sit in the provisional eighth spot\non Friday. In Q2, he recorded the second quickest run of the session with a 4.023\nsec.\/315.12 mph pass but ended up 11th on the eliminations ladder after hazing\nthe tires and saving the engine on the final run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\nset up an opening round match against fellow Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat driver\nand No. 6 seed Cruz Pedregon. Pedregon had a slight advantage at the hit of the\nthrottle as they raced side-by-side down the lane, and despite Hagan recording\nhis quickest pass of the weekend, it wasn\u2019t enough to catch the Snap-on Tools\nDodge Charger SRT Hellcat. Even with the early exit, Hagan retains his second\nplace position in the Funny Car standings behind rival Robert Hight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pedregon continued on to the quarterfinals and lined up against No. 3 qualifier Alexis DeJoria against whom he had a stellar light with a 0.033-second reaction time, but soon lost traction and had to shut it down. The Cruz Pedregon Racing HEMI\u00ae<\/sup>-powered entry remains sixth in the Funny Car standings as the regular season begins to wind down with four events remaining before the \u201cCountdown to the Championship\u201d playoffs series begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NHRA will close out the three-event western swing next\nweekend with the Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways near Seattle,\nWashington, July 29-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Top Fuel pilot Leah Pruett followed up last weekend\u2019s win at the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals near Denver by rolling into the 34th annual National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Sonoma Nationals and immediately taking the Rayce Rudeen Foundation Dodge\/\/SRT\u00ae Top Fuel dragster to her first No. 1 qualifier position of the season and then driving to a quarterfinal appearance in eliminations. Pruett took the top spot on the eliminations ladder by recording a 3.689-second elapsed time pass at 327.59 mph on the first of three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":63364,"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-63362","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\/LeahSonoma_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\/63362"}],"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=63362"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63376,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63362\/revisions\/63376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}