{"id":75885,"date":"2024-01-22T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=75885"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:18","slug":"alex-laughlin-is-taking-a-dodge-challenger-drag-pak-to-the-2024-nhra-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2024\/01\/alex-laughlin-is-taking-a-dodge-challenger-drag-pak-to-the-2024-nhra-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Alex Laughlin is Taking a Dodge Challenger Drag Pak to the 2024 NHRA Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Texas-based drag racer Alex Laughlin will drive a rebuilt Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, named &#8220;BlackbirdX&#8221;, in the Factory X class in the upcoming 2024 NHRA season. Laughlin is well-known for his versatile driving skills and is excited about the competitiveness of the Drag Pak, a vehicle that former NHRA Pro Stock world champion and veteran Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub>-powered Dodge racer Allen Johnson competed in during the 2023 debut season of the class. Owner Geoff Turk praises Laughlin\u2019s driving abilities and adaptability and is pleased that he agreed to drive the car in the upcoming season. Turk is aiming for continued success in the Factory X class and looks forward to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/alex-laughlin-tapped-as-driver-of-blackbirdx-dodge-challenger-drag-pak-for-2024-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Laughlin\u2019s season debut in Drag Pak &#8220;Blackbirdx&#8221; at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in April.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <\/em>dragillustrated.com | Kayla Zadel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Disclaimer: This editorial article contains information and links to a third-party site. We can\u2019t guarantee 100% accuracy (we do our best) or vouch for their other site content (nobody\u2019s perfect) outside of this link. Let us know in the comments if there\u2019s something you think we need to review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas-based drag racer Alex Laughlin will drive a rebuilt Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, named &#8220;BlackbirdX&#8221;, in the Factory X class in the upcoming 2024 NHRA season. Laughlin is well-known for his versatile driving skills and is excited about the competitiveness of the Drag Pak, a vehicle that former NHRA Pro Stock world champion and veteran Mopar\u00ae-powered Dodge racer Allen Johnson competed in during the 2023 debut season of the class. Owner Geoff Turk praises Laughlin\u2019s driving abilities and adaptability and is pleased that he agreed to drive the car in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":75887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575],"tags":[898,528,615],"class_list":["post-75885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-drag-pak","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AlexLaughlinDragPak_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AlexLaughlinDragPak_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\/75885"}],"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=75885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77787,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions\/77787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}