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Big Weekend for DSR at Chicago
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[caption id="attachment_1039" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The fuel FC final at Chicago was all DSR - with Matt Hagen winning over Tommy Johnson Jr. [/caption]
Matt Hagan ended an eleven race winless streak in Funny Car during an all DSR final at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Route 66 NHRA Nationals.
Hagan, the 2011 Funny Car world champ, ran his Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger past ...
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Rupert Rebounds Quickly!
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[caption id="attachment_1034" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jason Rupert had a dominating performance at IHRA Grand Bend which included both low ET (5.729 secs) and top speed - 243.50 mph[/caption]
Just one week prior to the IHRA's Mopar Canadian Nitro Jam at Grand Bend Ontario, Nitro Funny Car competitor Jason Rupert found himself packing his bags early after having just failed to qualify for ...
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Score for Napa Dodge FC @ New England
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Ron Capps raced to a relieving first victory of the season in Funny Car during the Auto-Plus NHRA New England Nationals held in New Hampshire.
Capps drove his DSR Racing NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger to the win in the final round over Alexis DeJoria with a 4.095-second run at 315.19 mph to claim the 41st victory of his career in ...
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Win = Relief for T.J. Junior
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Tommy Johnson Jr ended a long winless drought - winning for the first time since 2007 during NHRA's Ford Thunder Valley Nationals held at Bristol Dragway.
Don Schumacher Racing driver Tommy Johnson Jr. drove his Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T to the team’s first Funny Car win of the season at the 14th annual National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Thunder Valley Nationals ...
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Major Rebound for John Hale in IHRA
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Major Rebound for John Hale in IHRA
A perennial favorite in the nostalgia Nitro Funny Car class for some time, Hale came into the season looking to seriously contend in the IHRA's all-new Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series championship program and instead, Hale found himself in a situation very unfamiliar to him and his crew. DNQs, oil downs and an overall ...
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Bowen Wins DRO AA/FC Challenge Round #2
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Bowen Wins DRO AA/FC Challenge Round #2
Shawn Bowen drove the family’s “Violator” AA/FC Pontiac Firebird to its second win of the 2014 season at the June 6-7 inaugural Eighth-Mile Nationals at Keith Murt’s refurbished Beacon Dragway in Paducah, KY.
Bowen defeated Australian native Barrie “Bazz” Young in his “Down Under Thunder” ‘69 Camaro on an extremely tricky eighth-mile track that had seen ...
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Horan Sets Nostalgia Track Record
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Horan Sets Nostaliga Track Record
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All Toyotas @ Toyota Summer Nationals
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California's Cruz Pedregon rode a record quick performance to victory during NHRA's Toyota Summer Nationals held at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey.
After recording the quickest elapsed time in NHRA Fuel FC history at 3.959 secs during time trials, Pedregon was the class of the Funny Car field all weekend, going from No. 1 qualifier to the race ...
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Courtney Scores Landmark Victory!
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Courtney Scores Landmark Victory!
History was made when Courtney Force raced to the landmark 100th victory by a female in NHRA history during the NHRA Kansas Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka.
In her second attempt to earn the much sought after milestone victory in as many weeks, Force outran veteran Funny Car driver Cruz Pedregon in the final round to take the ...
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Rupert On Top of IHRA NFC Standings
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Rupert On Top of IHRA NFC Standings
With his recent third win of the season, his fourth consecutive final and fifth straight spot atop the qualifying charts, Jason Rupert has found himself with a comfortable lead in the IHRA Nitro Funny Car championship after five of 12 events on the 2014 IHRA Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series North American Tour.
Rupert won ...
