{"id":5402,"date":"2023-04-19T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2023-04-22T01:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T01:20:30","slug":"padding-a-points-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"Padding A Points Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Matt Hagan <\/strong>strengthened his top of the heap points leads with his third win in the first four races — winning the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals event at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Hagan raced to his 46th career NHRA win at Las Vegas.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the final round his 3.943 secs at 326.79 mph racing the Haas Automation Dodge Charger Hellcat SRT gave him that “quad” title over lane opponents Tim Wilkerson (R\/UP) as well as John Force and Chad Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It gives Hagan his 46th career win in what\u2019s been a dominant start to his 2023 season, plus a memorable moment to share in the winner\u2019s circle with Tony Stewart (Tony himself won the event’s TAD class title.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I went up there, and I was like, ‘Tony\u2019s won, no pressure,’ you know? And then he comes and crawls under the body and says, ‘I just won, you better win. Let’s go.’ But it’s great to share this winner’s circle with Tony Stewart, it’s a huge highlight of my career,\u201d Hagan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fuel FC final “Quad”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hagan finished first in all three rounds, building a 105-point already in the loaded Funny Car ranks. The four-wide events have generally been a struggle for the multi-time champ, but he solved it in impressive fashion on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’ve done everything in the four-wide from not staging the car on time to red lighting to not knowing which lane I’m in, so you’ve got to kind of dummy it down,\u201d Hagan said. \u201cYou get lucky out here, you do a good job, and you try to dumb it down to make sure that you’re figuring out where you’re at and what you’re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny Car Racing Event Summary \u2013 Four-Wide Nationals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIN: Matt Hagan 3.943 secs 326.79 mph (Career win #45)
R\/UP: Tim Wilkerson 3.969 secs 319.45 mph
Low ET: Cruz Pedregon 3.910 secs
Top MPH: Robert Hight 330.23 mph
Bump: 4.082 secs
Entries: 19 cars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Racing his Snap-On Tools Hellcat –Cruz Pedegon qualified #1 with low ET of the event at 3.910 secs.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Robert Hight set top speed for the Las Vegas event at 330.23 mph.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Posted with files by NHRA Communications and Bruce Biegler
Photos by Dave Ostazewski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Hagan strengthened his top of the heap points leads with his third win in the first four races — winning the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals event at Las Vegas. In the final round his 3.943 secs at 326.79 mph racing the Haas Automation Dodge Charger Hellcat SRT gave him that “quad” title over lane opponents […]<\/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\/5402"}],"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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}