{"id":817,"date":"2014-02-25T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2014-05-05T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:47:55","slug":"breakthrough-victory-for-alexis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Victory for Alexis!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHRA Drag Racing produced it\u2019s 14th female Professional Winner when Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory during the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Arizona\u2019s Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n

\"Phoenix-Alexis2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

DeJoria powered her Patron XO Cafe Toyota Camry to a winning performance of 4.043 seconds at 309.63 mph to defeat Robert Hight, whose Auto Club Ford Mustang lost traction. DeJoria raced past Jeff Arend, Del Worsham and red-hot event top qualifier John Force to advance to the final.<\/p>\n

DeJoria, in her third season at the controls of an 8,000-horsepower Funny Car for Kalitta Motorsports, becomes the fourth female to win an NHRA Funny Car race and the 14th female in history to win a Mello Yello Series race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we won the finals, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d said DeJoria, daughter of famed entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria and wife of noted television personality Jesse James. \u201cActually, I can because I know we can do it, but it\u2019s such a shock at the same time. It\u2019s surreal. It\u2019s really amazing. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to be able to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeJoria\u2019s win gave the Phoenix crowd a chance to see the well-known Kalitta Motorsports mosh pit celebration. DeJoria pointed out that the support of the whole organization made the win much more rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see the video of the Kalitta guys on the starting line,\u201d DeJoria said. \u201cI don\u2019t care what anybody says; that\u2019s badass. We all root for each other, and it\u2019s really a team effort over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Event Essentials: \u00a0Carquest Auto Parts Nationals (Phoenix AZ):<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0NAME<\/td>\n\u00a0ET<\/td>\n\u00a0MPH<\/td>\n\u00a0CAREER WIN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winner:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0Alex DeJoria<\/td>\n\u00a04.043<\/td>\n\u00a0309.63<\/td>\n\u00a01st<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R\/UP:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0Robert Hight<\/td>\n\u00a05.419<\/td>\n\u00a0117.88<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Low ET:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0John Force<\/td>\n\u00a03.990<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Top Speed:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0John Force<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0317.79<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bump Spot:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a05.654<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event Entries:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a019 cars<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\"Phoenix-Alexis\"<\/a>

Alexis\u2019 first ever FC victory included round wins over high quality cars driven by Jeff Arend \u2013 Del Worsham \u2013 John Force and Robert Hight.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NHRA Drag Racing produced it\u2019s 14th female Professional Winner when Alexis DeJoria raced to her first career Funny Car victory during the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Arizona\u2019s Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. DeJoria powered her Patron XO Cafe Toyota Camry to a winning performance of 4.043 seconds at 309.63 mph to defeat Robert […]<\/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\/817"}],"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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}