{"id":1390,"date":"2015-03-16T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:41:02","slug":"mardi-gras-party-time-for-boychuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras Party Time! (for Boychuk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycar-e1426624389530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1388\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycar-e1426624389530.jpg\" alt=\"funnycar\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEdmonton\u2019s Tim Boychuk emerged victorious after the IHRA\u2019s Nitro Jam Mardi Gras Nationals held at State Capitol Dragway in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Driving his all new Hawaiian-themed Pontiac Firebird, the popular Canadian driver faced defending IHRA AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car champion Jason Rupert in the final round of eliminations. Boychuk outran Rupert to the finish line, 5.867 secs 235.72 mph to 5.993 secs 245.43 mph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is big for us,\u201d Boychuk explained. \u201cWe struggled for the last year-and-a-half or so and it\u2019s been really painful. We started off winning a lot, then it kind of all went away on us. Now it\u2019s back \u2013 the car\u2019s back. I can feel the car is back and it\u2019s really working the way we want it to work. \u00a0We changed a few things. I bought out my partner, Ron Hodgson. We had a great relationship \u2013 we still do \u2013 he didn\u2019t want to race as much as I did. Now we got Twig (legendary driver Twig Zeigler of 1970s Pizza Haven Funny Car fame) and Roland (revered \u201960s-\u201970s \u201cHawaiian\u201d Funny Car owner Roland Leong) both working on the car and they\u2019ve got it back again. I\u2019ve got two great guys looking after the car. The team \u2013 we\u2019ve got the same crew working on the car \u2013 has so much consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boychuk defeated No. 1 Qualifier and past IHRA champion Paul Romine in first round, then scored a bye run in the second to meet Rupert in the final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycar2-e1426624421676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycar2-e1426624421676.jpg\" alt=\"funnycar2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funny Car ELIMINATIONS: AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car presented by Aeromotive<\/p>\n<p>First round:<\/p>\n<p>Tim Boychuk defeated No. 1 Qualifier Paul Romine, 5.773 sec.\/245.36 mph to 6.822 sec.\/176.50 mph.<br \/>\nJason Rupert defeated Ricky Young, 5.897 sec.\/245.83 mph to 16.255 sec.\/68.56 mph.<br \/>\nMark Sanders defeated Steve Nichols, 5.840 sec.\/250.97 mph to 8.278 sec.\/105.94 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Second round:<\/p>\n<p>Boychuk (bye) 11.768 sec.\/68.28 mph.<br \/>\nJason Rupert defeated Mark Sanders, 5.979 sec.\/247.32 mph to 6.129 sec.\/231.30 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Final:<br \/>\nTim Boychuk defeated Jason Rupert, 5.867 sec.\/235.72 mph to 5.993 sec.\/245.43 mph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1389\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycarnumone-e1426624694665.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/funnycarnumone-e1426624694665.jpg\" alt=\"(Paul Romine was the #1 qualifier in the FC eliminator)\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Paul Romine was the #1 qualifier in the FC eliminator)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Posted by John Bisci &#8211; Photos by Chris Simmons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton\u2019s Tim Boychuk emerged victorious after the IHRA\u2019s Nitro Jam Mardi Gras Nationals held at State Capitol Dragway in Louisiana. Driving his all new Hawaiian-themed Pontiac Firebird, the popular Canadian driver faced defending IHRA AMSOIL Nitro Funny Car champion Jason Rupert in the final round of eliminations. Boychuk outran Rupert to the finish line, 5.867 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}