{"id":3001,"date":"2018-04-30T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:09:34","slug":"cruzer-ends-loser-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Cruzer Ends Loser Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran fuel Funny Car racer Cruz Pedregon ended a frustrating career losing streak which dated back four years when he won during the NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway.<\/p>\n<p>That race, which is the second and final 4-wide event of the season was also the sixth of 24 in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?attachment_id=3000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3000\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ZMax-Cruz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2998\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?attachment_id=2998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2998\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2998\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2998\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Concord-Cruz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Cruz Pedregon got a money off his back when he won in Funny Car eliminator at zMax Dragway &#8211; his first win in almost 4 years in NHRA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pedregon ran a 4.059 at 310.84 in his Snap-On Tools Toyota Camry for his 36th career victory and first since Englishtown 2014. After qualifying sixth for the event, he was able to knock off 16-time Funny Car world champion John Force, Tommy Johnson Jr. and No. 1 qualifier Courtney Force in the final round to earn the victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew we had our work cut out for us when I pulled up to the starting line in the finals, and I actually didn\u2019t believe my ears when my team manager told me that I won,\u201d Pedregon said. \u201cIt was surreal, and I cannot believe that I won this race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was Pedregon\u2019s 36th career Funny Car win, moving him past the legendary Don Prudhomme into sole possession of fifth place for all-time in Funny Car victories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The championship round \u201cquad\u201d was:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1st Cruz Pedregon 4.059 secs 310.84 mph<\/em><br \/>\n<em>2nd John Force, 4.098 secs 307.93 mph <\/em><br \/>\n<em>3rd Tommy Johnson Jr. 4.143 secs 275.39 mph<\/em><br \/>\n<em>4th Courtney Force 6.215 secs 114.46 mph<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Courtney Force was the event performance star running her Advance Auto Parts Chevy Camaro to both Low ET and Top Speed at 3.873 secs and 332.92 mph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2999\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?attachment_id=2999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2999\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2999\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2999\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ZMax-CF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Courtney Force set low ET and top speed while qualifying #1)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2997\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?attachment_id=2997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2997\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2997\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2997\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Concord-4-FC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(For the 2nd and final time this season &#8211; NHRA Funny Cars raced 4-wide)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>17 Funny Cars were entered at the event with the bump spot being produced at 4.135 secs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Posted with files and photos by NHRA and Bruce Biegler<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?attachment_id=2985\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2985\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-09-at-12.56.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran fuel Funny Car racer Cruz Pedregon ended a frustrating career losing streak which dated back four years when he won during the NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway. That race, which is the second and final 4-wide event of the season was also the sixth of 24 in the NHRA Mello [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[28,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001"}],"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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}