{"id":408,"date":"2012-09-24T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:07:52","slug":"dallas-3rd-straight-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Dallas = 3rd Straight Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dallas = 3rd Straight Qualifier\u00a0<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dallas-TL2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-410\" title=\"Dallas-TL2\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dallas-TL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Todd Lesenko drove the Jim Dunn Racing Dodge Stratus Funny Car to it&#8217;s 3rd consecutive event qualified position during last weekends&#8217; NHRA AAA Texas Fall Nationals.\u00a0\u00a0 It was Todd&#8217;s first driving experience at the fabled track which was built and is owned and operated by fabled FC racer Billy Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>Racing for the 2nd time with new sponsor Eco-Absorb as it&#8217;s primary,\u00a0Todd\u00a0secured the 16th and final qualified position following\u00a0a run of 4.385 secs at 277.49 mph on Saturday.\u00a0 That earned him the right to face off against the pole qualifier &#8211; budding female superstar Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas-sponsored Ford Mustang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Knowing he had to cut a great light in order to have a chance of upsetting\u00a0Courtney, Todd\u00a0squeezed the\u00a0starting line Christmas tree a bit too\u00a0tight and left\u00a0too early.\u00a0 That\u00a0red-light foul\u00a0advanced Courtney to the next round of competition.<\/p>\n<p>The team will not get any\u00a0break from the current gruelling racing schedule.\u00a0 It\u00a0packed up immediately to\u00a0 head north to St. Louis for next weekend&#8217;s NHRA AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals;\u00a0\u00a0the 5th of 6 weekends in a row of NHRA national event\u00a0racing&#8230;&#8230;(BB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dallas-TL1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"Dallas-TL1\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Dallas-TL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photos courtesy of:\u00a0\u00a0 Gary Nastase Photography<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas = 3rd Straight Qualifier\u00a0<\/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\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}