{"id":2612,"date":"2017-07-24T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:10:29","slug":"a-mile-hight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"A “Mile-Hight” Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Hight broke through in a big way at Bandimere Speedway, storming to a victory in the Mopar Mile-High Nationals.<\/p>\n

The Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS driver has been fast during the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, earning two No. 1 qualifiers and racing to two final rounds. But he was still looking for his first victory of the season \u2013 until Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\"(Robert<\/a>

(Robert Hight scored an important and team relieving victory at the Mopar Mile High Nationals)<\/p><\/div>\n

Hight beat Todd Simpson, Jack Beckman, Cruz Pedregon and Tommy Johnson Jr. to earn his 38th career win, his fourth at Denver and his first of 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been awhile,\u201d Hight said. \u201cI think we\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hight also extended an impressive streak, as he\u2019s now won at least one race in each of his 13 seasons as a Funny Car driver. The Denver victory also locked up a spot in the Traxxas Nitro Shootout, a special race held during the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

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(Courtney Force reset both ends of the track records at Bandimere Speedway during FC class qualifying)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn the final, it ran 3.99, and that was a great run. It was boiling clutch dust in there, so it was happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The winning pass was a 3.995 at 317.57 mph, and it came after leaving first again, this time with a .046 light.<\/p>\n

And now Hight has a chance to sweep the Western Swing, the three-race stretch that includes Sonoma next week and Seattle the week after.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur performance is there,\u201d Hight said. \u201cWe run really well, we qualify well. We just haven\u2019t raced well on Sunday \u2013 and we haven\u2019t had any luck. Today we got some luck, and we needed it.
\n\u201cThis is a big time of year, and my favorite time of the year \u2013 the Western Swing. I\u2019m from the West coast, and it\u2019s three awesome races, three great race tracks in a row. It\u2019s a big deal to sweep the Swing and you can\u2019t do that unless you win at Denver – and we did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"(Matt<\/a>

(Matt Hagan raced this great looking special edition Mopar 80th Birthday edition Dodge Charger at Denver)<\/p><\/div>\n

Event Essentials: \u00a0 NHRA Mopar Mile-High Nationals (July 21-23rd, 2017)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\nET<\/strong><\/td>\nMPH<\/strong><\/td>\nCAREER WIN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winner:<\/strong><\/td>\nRobert Hight<\/td>\n\u00a03.995<\/td>\n317.57<\/td>\n\u00a038th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R\/UP:<\/strong><\/td>\nTommy Johnson Jr.<\/td>\n\u00a04.099<\/td>\n297.16<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Low ET:<\/strong><\/td>\nCourtney Force<\/td>\n\u00a03.889<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Top Speed:<\/strong><\/td>\nCourtney Force<\/td>\n<\/td>\n328.30<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bump Spot:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a05.316<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event Entries:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a016 Cars<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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For the second consecutive NHRA event – Tommy Johnson Jr placed runner-up<\/p><\/div>\n

Posted with files by Lee Montgomery & Bruce Biegler<\/em>
\n Photos by NHRA, Gary Nastase and Auto Imagery<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Hight broke through in a big way at Bandimere Speedway, storming to a victory in the Mopar Mile-High Nationals. The Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS driver has been fast during the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, earning two No. 1 qualifiers and racing to two final rounds. But he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612"}],"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=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}