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* Pruett, making her 200th NHRA Top Fuel start, defeated two NHRA Top Fuel World Champions and the current Top Fuel points leader enroute to the final round against
* After rounds wins over
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* Hagan, looking for his fourth NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Funny Car championship, now sits second in the current NHRA Funny Car points standings, 21 markers out of the lead
* Hagan qualified third at a 3.910 pass Friday night and advanced to the final in
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Pruett, winner of this year's Summit Nationals at
After qualifying fifth with a 3.777, Pruett clocked consistent runs Sunday with a 3.820 against Schumacher, 3.750 against Force and 3.733 opposite Ashley. In the final round, it was a close race with Brown's 3.715 to Leah's 3.757.
Pruett's third final round appearance of the year moved her closer to clinching a position in the 'Countdown to the Championship' which features the top-ten Top Fuel drivers in points battling for the NHRA title in the final six events of the 2023 campaign. Leah currently holds the fifth spot in Top Fuel points.
'What a race day for this Dodge//SRT Direct Connection team starting from the fifth spot,' said Pruett. 'We competed against three world champions and the current points leader, so we had our work cut out for us today. We were able to execute and turn on three 'win' lights, but unfortunately just didn't have enough from the starting line to the
'I'm stoked that we get to be in the final Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge of the season in Indy, which allows us to capitalize on race mode while qualifying. We definitely do not have our heads down, even though we could taste this
In the NHRA Funny Car division,
Hagan now ranks second in the NHRA Funny Car points standings, just 21 points behind leader
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'It was obviously a very tough weekend,' Hagan said. 'The points will not be great for us this weekend, having not gotten out of first round. We've got to move forward. We are better than that. You are going to have a couple of hiccups along the way and, unfortunately, this is one of them. We are going to dig deep and figure out what we did wrong. It stops with us as a team, and we are going to work harder. We want to be prepared for Indy now.'
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The @DodgeMoparMotorsports Instagram channel continues to share content capturing Dodge//SRT Mopar drivers on the track. Fans can see action from the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series and NHRA Sportsman grassroots racers, competing in classes such as Factory Stock Showdown, Stock and Super Stock, as well as additional motorsports series.
Dodge//SRT
For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT Hellcat versions of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, as well as an R/T plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet, representing the brand's first-ever electrified performance vehicle. Dodge delivers the drag-strip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever; and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet. Combined, these four muscle vehicles make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the '#1 Brand in Initial Quality,' making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS).
Fans can follow all the NHRA action this season at DodgeGarage, the one-stop portal for Dodge//SRT and Mopar drag-racing news, including daily updates and access to an online racing HQ, news, events, galleries, available downloads and merchandise. Dodge is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider
Mopar
Mopar is the global name for
A simple combination of the words MOtor and PARts, Mopar offers exceptional service, parts and customer-care. Born in 1937 as the name of a line of antifreeze products, Mopar has evolved over more than 85 years to represent both complete vehicle care and authentic performance for owners and enthusiasts worldwide.
Mopar made its mark in the 1960s during the muscle-car era with performance parts to enhance speed and handling for both on-road and racing use. Later, Mopar expanded to include technical service and customer support, and today integrates service, parts and customer-care operations in order to enhance customer and dealer support worldwide.
Complete information on Mopar is available at www.mopar.com and the newly redesigned Mopar blog at www.blog.mopar.com.
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