{"id":979,"date":"2014-05-22T22:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2014-05-22T22:54:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:54:51","slug":"rupert-on-top-of-ihra-nfc-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Rupert On Top of IHRA NFC Standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rupert On Top of IHRA NFC Standings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/344-e1400799107825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-977\" src=\"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/344-e1400799107825.jpg\" alt=\"344\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With his recent third win of the season, his fourth consecutive final and fifth straight spot atop the qualifying charts, Jason Rupert has found himself with a comfortable lead in the IHRA Nitro Funny Car championship after five of 12 events on the 2014 IHRA Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series North American Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Rupert won for the third time this season at Rockingham Dragway&#8217;s IHRA Nitro Jam Spring Nationals last week, besting three-time IHRA champion Peter Gallen in a classic Nitro Funny Car showdown. With the win, Rupert is now 11-1 on the year in competition and has extended his lead in the championship standings to 176 points over Mark Sanders in the &#8220;Mr. Explosive&#8221; Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>Rupert, behind the wheel of the Bays and Rupert &#8220;Black Plague&#8221; 1969 Chevrolet Camaro, also reset the IHRA Nitro Funny Car elapsed time record at 5.684 seconds at Rockingham Dragway, set during the final round against Gallen.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Mike McIntire Jr., the only other competitior in Nitro Funny Car with a win this season, sits third, followed by Canadian Tim Boychuk and former IHRA Top Fuel world champion Bruce Litton. A remarkable 318 points separates Rupert from fifth-place driver Litton after just five races.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nitro Jam Championship Standings (Top 10):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2028(After 5 of 12 events on 2014 Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nitro Funny Car<\/strong> &#8211; 1. Jason Rupert 520, 2. Mark Sanders 344, 3. Mike McIntire Jr. 321, 4. Tim Boychuk 305, 5. Bruce Litton 202, 6. John Hale 179, 7. John Smith 149, 8. Mike Smith 139, 9. Ronny Young 139, 10. Mike Halstead 134<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: Larry Crum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert On Top of IHRA NFC Standings With his recent third win of the season, his fourth consecutive final and fifth straight spot atop the qualifying charts, Jason Rupert has found himself with a comfortable lead in the IHRA Nitro Funny Car championship after five of 12 events on the 2014 IHRA Nitro Jam Drag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}