{"id":5105,"date":"2022-03-01T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:03:25","slug":"early-streak-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5105","title":{"rendered":"Early Streak Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Robert Hight and the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS team earned their second consecutive victory at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in his career, Robert Hight and the Auto Club Chevy team have started the season with back-to-back victories as they worked their way to the 55th win of Hight\u2019s career, his second at the Arizona Nationals. The three-time championship team started the day in the No.2 qualifying position racing Paul Lee. Hight would handle his Chevrolet to a 3.864-second pass at 329.42 mph while Lee would smoke the tires for a 9.484 setting Hight up to run against long-time rival Bob Tasca III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jimmy Prock and Chris Cunningham led Auto Club team would rally to 3.855-second pass at 330.55 mph to send Tasca\u2019s 3.922 at 332.84 packing. With the win, Hight would have a semifinals battle against boss and 16-time champion John Force. Hight would keep it consistent, taking his Auto Club Funny Car to a 3.847-second pass at 326.63 mph while Force would struggle keeping traction to run 7.231 at 86.59.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
(Robert Hight upped his 2022 season record to 8-0 when he won at the NHRA Arizona Nationals)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the finals it would be John Force Racing versus Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) as Hight lined up with Matt Hagan. Hight would deliver another on par run at 3.837-seconds and 330.39 mph to deny TSR their first team win. Hagan would have a 4.045-second pass at 267.00 mph after shutting off near the 600-foot mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is amazing. You have no idea what it\u2019s like to win one race. I still feel that the Funny Car class is the toughest class out here. From top to bottom, it\u2019s stacked and any given weekend, anyone could step up and win. So, to go and win two in a row in this day and age, that is amazing,\u201d Hight said. \u201cAnd if you look back to this strong string of runs that we\u2019re on: five in a row at Auto Club Raceway in the .80s, come her and have seven runs in the .80s, that\u2019s pretty impressive what Jimmy and Chris and the whole Auto Club team came up with over the winter. Even yesterday when the track was 107\u00b0 and we went up there and ran .84, you don\u2019t surprise Jimmy very often, and that run surprised him, and it surprised me too. I\u2019m very fortunate to drive this thing right now. It\u2019s what you dream about and it\u2019s not going to get any easier from here on out. You\u2019ve got big battles – last weekend with Capps, this weekend with Hagan, and you\u2019re going to see a lot of these battles all year long. We just hope we\u2019re up for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a>
Matt Hagan set both low ET and top speed in fuel FC while qualifying #1.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Event Essentials: Arizona Nationals (Feb. 25-27th. 2022) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/td>NAME<\/strong><\/td>ET<\/strong><\/td>MPH<\/strong><\/td>CAREER WIN<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
 <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Winner:<\/strong><\/td>Robert Hight <\/td> 3.837 <\/td>330.39<\/td> 55th<\/td><\/tr>
R\/UP:<\/strong><\/td>Matt Hagan  <\/td> 4.045<\/td>267.60<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Low ET:<\/strong><\/td>Matt Hagan <\/td> 3.823<\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Top Speed:<\/strong><\/td>Matt Hagan  <\/td> <\/td>333.41<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Bump Spot:<\/strong><\/td> 4.569<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Event Entries:<\/strong><\/td> 16 Cars<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
John Force and Tim Wilkerson both had strong semi-final round finishes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
Independent racer Terry Haddock qualified his Ford Mustang on the bump.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Posted with files by Sara Slaughter & Bruce Biegler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Photos by David Ostaszewski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Hight and the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS team earned their second consecutive victory at the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. For the first time in his career, Robert Hight and the Auto Club Chevy team have started the season with back-to-back victories as they worked their […]<\/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\/5105"}],"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=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5116,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}