{"id":397,"date":"2012-09-17T23:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-09-18T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:37:11","slug":"strong-push-back-at-nhra-charlotte-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Strong Push Back At NHRA Charlotte (2)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Strong Push Back At NHRA Charlotte (2)!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>After enduring a myriad of rather explosive problems during the previous Mac Tools U.S. Nationals event, Todd Lesenko and the entire Jim Dunn Racing team had a very nice rebound race at ZMax Dragway in Charlotte N.C&#8230;.<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The team debuted its newest sponsorship partner Eco-Absorb and also a new Dodge Stratus FC body (previously raced by Ron Capps) at the NHRA O\u2019Reilly Nationals event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team made two very nice safe and straight qualifying runs\u00a0on Saturday, the second of which was a very timely and dramatic\u00a04.313 secs that\u00a0qualified for\u00a0the coveted 16<sup>th<\/sup> and final slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ZMax9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-398\" title=\"ZMax9\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ZMax9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthy rain delay to the start of eliminations on Sunday, Todd lined up to race\u00a0pole qualifier Tim Wilkerson in round one.\u00a0 Todd got out of the starting gate first (.063 to .075 RT) and ran his best time of the event at 4.223 secs 293.73 mph.\u00a0\u00a0 That improvement was however not enough to hold off Wilkerson who ran 4.096 secs at 307.58 mph in the L.R.S.\u00a0car\u00a0to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that\u00a0\u00a0loss Todd and the team\u00a0took away a lot of positives from the race and\u00a0are now off to NHRA Dallas next week (for the AAA Fall\u00a0Nationals)\u00a0with some new\u00a0enthusiasm and where\u00a0they will attempt to qualify for their 3rd straight event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team\u00a0also does offer it&#8217;s\u00a0congratulations to fellow Dodge FC racer Ron Capps who went on to win the race at Charlotte and increase his overall NHRA Championship\u00a0points lead\u2026\u2026\u2026.(BB)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by:\u00a0 Dave DeAngelis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To view additional event photos from Charlotte and other NHRA races this season click:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?page_id=75\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong Push Back At NHRA Charlotte (2)!\u00a0 After enduring a myriad of rather explosive problems during the previous Mac Tools U.S. Nationals event, Todd Lesenko and the entire Jim Dunn Racing team had a very nice rebound race at ZMax Dragway in Charlotte N.C&#8230;.<\/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\/397"}],"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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}