{"id":71491,"date":"2023-07-17T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=71491"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:47","slug":"hagan-enjoys-magical-weekend-takes-dodge-power-brokers-mile-high-nationals-victory-in-final-bandimere-speedway-nhra-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2023\/07\/hagan-enjoys-magical-weekend-takes-dodge-power-brokers-mile-high-nationals-victory-in-final-bandimere-speedway-nhra-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Hagan Enjoys \u2018Magical Weekend,\u2019 Takes Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals Victory in Final Bandimere Speedway NHRA Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matt Hagan drove his Tony\nStewart Racing (TSR) Dodge\/\/SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Direct Connection Hellcat Funny Car to the\nfinal win light in the 43-year history of the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High\nNationals at famed Bandimere Speedway on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hagan, the No. 1 qualifier\nin the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals for the third consecutive year\nat \u201cThunder Mountain,\u201d defeated Alexis DeJoria in the final round with a\n4.135-second run at 304.25 miles per hour, to DeJoria\u2019s 4.217 effort. The\nvictory was Hagan\u2019s fourth in the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series\nand his 47th career NHRA national event win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the event the\nVirginia racer defeated Chris King, and after a bye run took down reigning NHRA\nFunny Car World Champion Ron Capps to advance to the final race against\nDeJoria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hagan completed a weekend\n\u201cGrand Slam\u201d by also taking the Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty Challenge for the\nFunny Car Class on Saturday with a win over Bob Tasca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Hagan recorded a\n4.041 against King, 4.280 in a second-round bye run and a 4.107 against Capps\npaired with a remarkable starting line reaction time of 0.008 seconds to take\nout his closest rival in the point standingsr. The Mile-High Nationals win\nextended Hagan\u2019s point lead in the NHRA Funny Car standings to 45 over Capps\nheading to next weekend\u2019s Northwest Nationals in Kent, Wash.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was a magical weekend\nfor me and very emotional,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cIt was my mom\u2019s birthday and she\npassed away six months ago, so I was thinking about that throughout the\nweekend. But I also knew this is the last time I\u2019d race at Bandimere Speedway\nand it was a Dodge-sponsored race. I\u2019ve been on fire here before and we\u2019ve\nblown up a lot of things on the \u2018Mountain,\u2019 so getting the quick qualifying\ntime three years in a row and winning in 2021 and now today is very special. I\ndon\u2019t think it will sink in for a few months. Wow, I took the final win light\nat the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals. That\u2019s something they can\nnever take away from me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Crew chief) Dickie\nVenables, Mike Knudsen, Alex Conaway and the rest of the crew were phenomenal\nthis weekend. We were down one crew member (Josh Munoz) due to a car incident\nback in Indy, but everyone pitched in all weekend here. Heck, even the Bossman\n(Tony Stewart) was helping with fuel and preparing the equipment for the final\nround. It was a thrash getting everything ready. Leahs (Pruett, Hagan\u2019s TSR\nteammate) crew helped us too. I still can\u2019t believe this is the last one at\nBandimere Speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruett, the defending Dodge\nPower Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals Top Fuel champion, suffered an extremely\nclose loss in the first round of competition Sunday when she lost to Josh Hart\nalthough both posted identical 3.905-second passes.. Pruett recorded a\nsensational 0.036 second starting light in the TSR Dodge\/\/SRT Direct Connection\ndragster but lost by inches at the finish line. Despite the loss, Pruett\nremains in the third position in the current NHRA Top Fuel point standings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe conclusion to our final\nDodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway was less\nthan ideal with the first-round exit, but there is still a lot of value in it\nfor us for us as a unit,\u201d said Pruett, who won her first NHRA \u201cWally\u201d trophy at\nage eight at Bandimere Speedway in Junior Dragsters. \u201cYou can’t curb the\nheartbreak. Unfortunately, our competitor, Josh Hart, had an insane .021 light\nto my .036, which were both low of the round. I knew when I hit the gas that I\nhad a good reaction time and I thought I had him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know that we have a good\nrace car and a car that\u2019s capable of winning races and preparing for\nchampionship contention. I would’ve loved more than anything to win again at\nBandimere, with such an emotional connection. For us, the TSR team and Dodge,\nthis is a chapter in our life that’s just beginning, and I couldn’t be more\nproud of the progress that we have made given our challenges this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team owner Tony Stewart was\nexcited for Hagan\u2019s win, marking the final race at Bandimere Speedway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Dodge Power Brokers and\nDirect Connection Funny Car team won the race and had a great weekend,\u201d said\nStewart. \u201cLeah cut a .036 light, which was awesome. Unfortunately, her opponent\nguessed and beat her off the line, so she went out the first round. For Matt to\nwin the last race at Bandimere Speedway, it is so special. The Funny Cars were\nthe last pair to go down the track. It\u2019s an epic event. It\u2019s the Dodge Power\nBrokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be able to finish it off\nfor our partners is a great day. I appreciate everything they do for our Funny\nCar and Top Fuel teams. This is the first stop on the Western Swing with us\ngoing to Seattle and Sonoma after this. You can\u2019t win them all if you don\u2019t win\nthe first one. Dickie and the whole team are very excited. Leah and her crew\nare excited also. They had some challenging moments, but we made big gains and\nlearned from it. I feel like we\u2019re in a good spot. I\u2019m really proud of our\nteam.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NHRA Camping World Drag\nRacing Series now moves to the Flav-R-Pac NHRA Northwest Nationals next\nweekend, July 21-23, at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Hagan drove his Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge\/\/SRT\u00ae Direct Connection Hellcat Funny Car to the final win light in the 43-year history of the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals at famed Bandimere Speedway on Sunday. Hagan, the No. 1 qualifier in the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals for the third consecutive year at \u201cThunder Mountain,\u201d defeated Alexis DeJoria in the final round with a 4.135-second run at 304.25 miles per hour, to DeJoria\u2019s 4.217 effort. The victory was Hagan\u2019s fourth in the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":71496,"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-71491","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\/2023\/07\/HaganWinsFinalMileHighNational_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/HaganWinsFinalMileHighNational_Social.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\/71491"}],"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=71491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71502,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71491\/revisions\/71502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}