Post-Race #MileHighNats

Matt Hagan

“We had a really great racecar this weekend. It was nice being able to qualify No. 1 on the mountain. Going into the first round, we really weren’t expecting to smoke the tires like that. We really tried to pull things back to make things favorable for the racecar. Obviously, the mountain had a different idea about how things were going to go up here. We smoked the tires and I gave it a good peddle job for a while and gave up the ghost up there. Jack Wyatt is an underdog that you cheer for, so it’s nice to see him go some rounds. We hate it because we wanted to get Dodge a win, with this being their race. We were in a great position to do that, but the racing gods didn’t have it in store this weekend. We’ll make some adjustments and move on to Sonoma and Seattle.”

Hagan earned his 47th career No. 1 Funny Car qualifier and his fourth of the season with Saturday’s Q3 run (3.908 ET at 323.12 mph). This was the second straight year that Hagan won the pole for the Dodge Power Brokers Mile-High Nationals. Hagan came into the event as the defending Funny Car winner.

  • Earned No. 1 provisional qualifying position in Q1 on Friday (3.968 ET at 324.67 mph).
  • Scored three bonus points for quickest run of the session.
  • Earned No. 1 qualifying position in Q2 on Friday (3.927 ET at 319.07 mph).
  • Scored three bonus points for quickest run of the session.
  • Improved upon No. 1 qualifying position by running a 3.908 ET at 323.12 mph in Q3 on Saturday.
  • Scored three bonus points for quickest run of the session.
  • Secured No. 1 qualifying position based off Q3 run on Saturday. In Q4 on Saturday, Hagan ran a 6.600 ET at 103.68 mph.
  • Eliminated following Round 1 on Sunday:
  • Round 1: 4.913 ET at 210.97 mph, lost to Jack Wyatt (4.182 ET at 279.73 mph).
  • Currently second in the Funny Car championship standings, 95 points behind leader Robert Hight.