After a strong weekend advancing to the Finals at the last Four-Wide Nationals event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, how much confidence does that give you heading into another four-wide event? “The four-wides are still the four-wides and you never know what you’re going to get. Even though we went to the […]
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Stewart, Hagan Record Final Round Performances at Las Vegas NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in TSR Dodge//SRT Nitro Machines
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Tony Stewart, a Top Fuel “rookie,” drove the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Rayce Rudeen Foundation Dodge//SRT dragster to his first professional final round Sunday at Las Vegas The NASCAR Hall of Fame racer, competing in his fourth Top Fuel event, advanced in the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals final round against Doug Kalitta, Justin Ashley and Steve […]
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“Dickie (Venables – crew chief) is always a great racer on Sunday. The TSR team put a great race car under me today and we would have liked to put the Operation Healing Forces (OHF) car in the winner’s circle with the Nellis Air Force base next to the track. We are making progress with the […]
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You earned a double-up victory at last year’s NHRA Four-Wide Nationals with Tony Stewart in the Top Alcohol Dragster. How special would it be to double up with him now in Top Fuel? “Anytime you can double-up, it’s always special. It was really cool being able to do that last year with Tony in the […]
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Top Fuel “rookie” and NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Tony Stewart advanced to the Top Fuel semifinals Sunday in the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Direct Connection Dodge//SRT car Competing in his third NHRA national event, the NHRA Arizona Nationals in Chandler, Ariz., Stewart defeated Brittany Force and Billy Torrence to score his first Top Fuel […]
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“It was a tough weekend for us with three qualifiers and a tricky race track. Our setup and combination didn’t really work well all weekend. We were kind of behind the eight ball for the first round and it backed up a little bit too much. We just got out ran out there. I don’t […]
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As part of the Arizona Nationals, you’ll be completing the final-round of the Winternationals. Talk about how special it would be to be able to capture two Wallys in one weekend. “The Phoenix weekend is going to be very busy during qualifying. We were hoping they would add an extra qualifying session in there, since […]
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Top Qualifier Hagan Advances Dodge//SRT Hellcat to NHRA Winternationals Funny Car Final Before Rain Halts Action
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Defending NHRA Winternationals Funny Car champion Matt Hagan drove his Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Johnson Horsepowered Garage Dodge//SRT Hellcat to the final round Sunday Qualifying No. 1 Saturday at 3.893, Hagan seeks his second straight NHRA Winternationals title with victories over Buddy Hull, Jeff Diehl and J.R. Todd before rain postponed the final round The […]
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“We didn’t leave here a loser today, so that’s a good thing. It’s always challenging to take your car to a race track that you don’t have very many runs at, in order to finish a race. But that’s what we’re going to do. The weather made things difficult to finish in Pomona, so I […]
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You’re the defending event winner at Pomona and you’re looking to bring home your fifth Wally from In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. What would it mean to record another win there? “We’re coming off of Gainesville, where we thought we could have won three races in a row. But at the end of the day, we […]