{"id":64045,"date":"2022-08-22T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=64045"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:19","slug":"hagan-captured-48th-career-no-1-qualifier-with-mopar-85th-anniversary-funny-car-quarterfinal-performance-at-brainerd-international-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/08\/hagan-captured-48th-career-no-1-qualifier-with-mopar-85th-anniversary-funny-car-quarterfinal-performance-at-brainerd-international-raceway.html","title":{"rendered":"Hagan Captured 48th Career No. 1 Qualifier with Mopar<sub>&reg;<\/sub> 85th Anniversary Funny Car; Quarterfinal Performance at Brainerd International Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carrying\nthe Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> 85th anniversary livery on his Dodge Charger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat Funny Car at\nthe 40th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) driver Matt\nHagan captured the No. 1 Qualifier position for the fifth time this season then\ndrove to a quarterfinal finish in the penultimate event of the regular season\nat Brainerd International Raceway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndefending winner of the event earned his 48th career No. 1 Qualifier honor, the\nfifth most in the Funny Car category, with his final qualifying pass in the\nlane next to points leader and provisional pole sitter Robert Hight as the last\npairing of the session. Hagan powered his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat to a\n3.843-second elapsed time run at 331.36 mph, one quickest runs of the season,\nto steal away the pole position, collect a total of six bonus points and a\nbye-run for the opening round of eliminations. The Q4 run had some added drama\nwhen the body of Hagan\u2019s racecar that sported the Mopar 85th Anniversary paint\nscheme honoring the legendary brand was damaged by a fiery explosion in the final\nfeet of the qualifying run, necessitating a change to the Dodge Power Brokers\nCharger SRT Hellcat body for Sunday\u2019s elimination rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hagan\nlaunched his race day with the new Dodge body and a solo run that didn\u2019t go\nquite as planned when a cylinder went out at the hit of the throttle. The TSR\nteam turned the car off to save any further damage and regroup for their next\nround against No. 8 seed Alexis DeJoria. The quarterfinal saw both competitors\nhit the throttle, immediately lose traction and find themselves in a pedalfest\nto the finish. Unfortunately, Hagan wasn\u2019t able to regain control of his nitro\nmachine quickly enough to battle to the finish to extend his raceday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\ndisappointed with the result, Hagan remains second in the Funny Car\nchampionship standings as his team now prepares for the cornerstone event of\nthe season, the Dodge Power Brokers U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis\nRaceway Park, and the final regular season event before the NHRA\u2019s \u201dCountdown\nto the Championship\u201d playoff series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\ntwo-time Top Fuel winner (2017 and 2019) at Brainerd International Raceway,\nLeah Pruett took her Mopar 85th Anniversary dragster for a 3.702 sec.\/330.47\nmph run on her second qualifying lap on Friday to post the third quickest pass\nof the session and collect a bonus point. The TSR pilot\u2019s lap was good enough\nto put her sixth on the eliminations ladder and set up a first round pairing\nwith No. 11 seed Shawn Langdon with whom she is jostling for position in the\npoints standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pruett\nhad a decent lap going until just after half-track when her ride began to drop\ncylinders and put an end to her run and chance to advance. She and her TSR team\nnow turn their attention to the \u201cBig Go\u201d where they will work to capture their\nfirst Wally from the storied event. While currently tied for sixth place with\nLangdon in the Top Fuel standings, Pruett is also among three competitors\nbattling for the fifth place position in the Countdown with just one event\nremaining ahead of the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\na ninth time this season, Funny Car driver Cruz Pedregon qualified his Snap-on\nTools Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat in the top-five for eliminations with a 3.888\nseconds pass at 326.16 mph. The driver and team owner had a clean first round\npass against No. 12 seed Bobby Bode that unfortunately wasn\u2019t enough to turn on\nthe win light and prematurely ended his day, dropping the Cruz Pedregon Racing\nmachine to eighth place in the Funny Car standings.\n\n\n\nThe focus now shifts on\npreparing for the world\u2019s biggest drag race and the NHRA Camping World Series\u2019\nmarquis event, the prestigious 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers U.S. Nationals,\nAugust 31-September 5, at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrying the Mopar\u00ae 85th anniversary livery on his Dodge Charger SRT\u00ae Hellcat Funny Car at the 40th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals, Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) driver Matt Hagan captured the No. 1 Qualifier position for the fifth time this season then drove to a quarterfinal finish in the penultimate event of the regular season at Brainerd International Raceway. The defending winner of the event earned his 48th career No. 1 Qualifier honor, the fifth most in the Funny Car category, with his final qualifying pass in the lane next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":64044,"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-64045","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\/08\/Hagan_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\/64045"}],"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=64045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64049,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64045\/revisions\/64049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}