AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ —
- Dodge//SRT and Mopar opponents open the 2023 NHRA Tenting World Drag Racing Collection this weekend (March 9-12) on the famed Gainesville Raceway in Florida with the 54th working of the Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, marking the NHRA’s first season-opening occasion in Florida
- The NHRA Amalie Gatornationals marks the one-year anniversary of Dodge//SRT and Mopar partnering with Tony Stewart Racing (TSR), which fields driving stars Leah Pruett in Prime Gas and Matt Hagan in Humorous Automotive, who each scored nationwide occasion victories final season with their Direct Connection and Dodge Energy Brokers branded nitro-powered machines
- Three-time NHRA Humorous Automotive World Champion Hagan returns to Gainesville because the Humorous Automotive champion after scoring the primary Wally trophy for the TSR group final March with the Dickie Venables-tuned Direct Connection Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat
- Pruett, a 10-time NHRA Prime Gas nationwide occasion winner, brings the potent Direct Connection Prime Gas dragster to Gainesville for TSR after spectacular testing runs in latest weeks in Florida
- Each TSR nitro-burning machines will sport new Elegant Inexperienced liveries
- Direct Connection efficiency components choices might be on show within the NHRA Producers Halfway all through the season, together with this weekend, which options race simulators for race followers to check their abilities or expertise a run within the Matt Hagan Humorous Automotive simulator
- All 21 NHRA nationwide occasions will air on FOX or FS1 and can stream reside on NHRA.TV
- For extra data on Dodge and the 24-month Dodge By no means Carry marketing campaign, go to Dodge.com or DodgeGarage.com
The thrill of the opening spherical of the 2023 Nationwide Sizzling Rod Affiliation (NHRA) Tenting World Drag Racing Collection hits a 11,000-horsepower pitch this weekend (March 9-12) on the legendary Gainesville Raceway in Florida as Dodge//SRT and Mopar opponents are staged to kick off the brand new season with one other profitable efficiency within the 54th annual NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals.
Led by the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) nitro workforce, Dodge//SRT and Mopar racers Leah Pruett (Prime Gas) and Matt Hagan (Humorous Automotive) deliver their robust Direct Connection entries to the 2023 season opening occasion, the primary of 21 rounds for the coveted NHRA Tenting World World Championships.
The Dodge//SRT and Mopar duo enter their second marketing campaign underneath the TSR banner, and Hagan returns because the occasion’s defending Humorous Automotive champion along with his nitro-burning Direct Connection Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. The 2022 Gatornationals Humorous Automotive triumph for Hagan was the primary win for the TSR squad. Hagan recorded three further NHRA nationwide occasion victories within the workforce’s preliminary season.
Pruett additionally scored a 2022 NHRA Prime Gas title for TSR on the Dodge Energy Brokers NHRA Mile Excessive Nationals final July in Morrison, Colorado.
“After an excellent opening season with Tony Stewart Racing, we’re excited for the 2023 NHRA Tenting World Drag Racing Collection as Leah and Matt are primed to place the Dodge Energy Brokers and Direct Connection machines again within the winner’s circle,” stated Tim Kuniskis, Dodge model CEO – Stellantis. “Our Dodge//SRT efficiency fanatics even have the chance to get a close-up view of Direct Connection factory-backed efficiency merchandise at our Producers Halfway show. It ought to be a spectacular season opener for the Dodge//SRT applications at Gainesville this weekend.”
The Direct Connection efficiency components model – solely obtainable via the Dodge Energy Brokers vendor community – is the unique supply of the Dodge model’s factory-backed efficiency components and straight-from-the-manufacturer technical data. Full data on Direct Connection is obtainable at DCPerformance.com.
For the primary time within the 54 years of the NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, the Florida occasion will function the season-opening race on the NHRA Tenting World Drag Racing Collection schedule after many many years starting with the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California. The on-track motion begins Friday, March 10, with two qualifying classes for the skilled divisions, adopted by two nitro classes on Saturday with ultimate eliminations set for Sunday at 10 a.m. EST. As well as, the Prime Gas ranks will characteristic the Pep Boy’s All-Star Prime Gas Callout on Saturday.
TSR workforce proprietor Tony Stewart, whose nitro operation recorded 5 NHRA nationwide occasion wins in 2022, brings added enthusiasm for the Gainesville opener, in addition to the upcoming 2023 season.
“We’re trying ahead to getting the NHRA season began in Gainesville,” stated Stewart, who’ll drive an Alcohol dragster for the complete 2023 tour. “It’s a particular observe as a result of it’s the place Leah (Pruett) and I had our first date, and it’s the place we received our first TSR workforce win final 12 months with Matt Hagan. We retained all our workforce members, so I do know we’re going to proceed to construct off final 12 months’s success. The crews mesh very properly collectively and are extraordinarily gifted. Each groups had been capable of check through the low season to dial-in their setups and prepare for competitors. We are able to’t thank Dodge sufficient for his or her help and continued partnership.”
Hagan, a three-time (2011, 2014, 2020) NHRA Humorous Automotive World Champion, involves Gainesville after a robust end the place he positioned third within the 2022 Humorous Automotive factors along with his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and ran his career-win complete to 43. The Virginia driver has produced top-three nationwide level finishes 9 instances throughout his legendary profession.
Nonetheless working with famed crew chief Dickie Venables, Hagan rapidly gave the brand new TSR group instant respect with the 2022 Gatornationals Humorous Automotive within the Dodge Energy Brokers and Direct Connection livery. Whereas he efficiently started the brand new chapter in his profession along with his new workforce and Direct Connection as his major livery, Hagan is about for one more robust Gatornationals efficiency after a stellar pre-season testing.
“I’m pumped to be returning to Gainesville because the defending champion,” stated Hagan. “Realizing we’re beginning the season on the Gatornationals, and it was the observe we received TSR’s first win final 12 months is particular. It was additionally my first win at Gainesville too. I can’t wait to climb into this Elegant Inexperienced Dodge Direct Connection Charger SRT Hellcat Humorous Automotive. Let’s mild the pipes and get one other win!”
Pruett, a former Nostalgia Humorous Automotive World Champion and NHRA SAMTech Manufacturing facility Inventory Showdown Champion, will marketing campaign in her eleventh 12 months in drag racing’s final division, Prime Gas, and once more work with crew chief Neal Strausbaugh and the TSR crew on the NHRA Gatornationals this weekend. The 34-year-old California native begins the 2023 NHRA marketing campaign with the most effective NHRA elapsed time in sequence historical past at 3.631 seconds.
“I can’t keep in mind a time I’ve ever seemed extra ahead to the Gatornationals than this race in our Elegant Inexperienced Dodge Direct Connection Prime Gas Dragster,” stated Pruett. “It’s the general season opener, not simply on the East Coast. Groups additionally received intensive testing at this observe within the final month, which suggests the competitors goes to be ultra-thick. I imagine the followers are in for a memorable occasion.”
Additionally entered at Gainesville Raceway for the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat nitro-burning contingent might be two-time world champion Cruz Pedregon in his Snap-On Instruments Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Humorous Automotive and younger Alex Laughlin within the Havoline Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Humorous Automotive for Jim Dunn.
Pedregon brings his Cruz Pedregon Racing workforce to Gainesville after a 2022 season-ending Humorous Automotive victory on the NHRA Finals final November and seeks so as to add to his 38-career Humorous Automotive win complete this weekend, whereas Laughlin strikes into the Humorous Automotive division this 12 months after stints in Professional Inventory and Prime Gas. Group proprietor Dunn is a legendary determine in NHRA drag racing relationship again to his Humorous Automotive driving within the early Seventies.
@DodgeMoparMotorsports on Instagram
The @DodgeMoparMotorsports Instagram channel continues to share content material capturing Dodge//SRT Mopar drivers on the observe. Followers can see motion from the NHRA Tenting World Drag Racing Collection and NHRA Sportsman grassroots racers, competing in courses akin to Manufacturing facility Inventory Showdown, Inventory and Tremendous Inventory, in addition to further motorsports sequence.
DodgeGarage: Digital Hub for Drag Racing Information
Followers can comply with all of the NHRA motion this season at DodgeGarage, the one-stop portal for Dodge//SRT and Mopar drag-racing information. The location contains day by day updates and entry to an internet racing HQ, information, occasions, galleries, obtainable downloads and merchandise. For extra data, go to www.dodgegarage.com.
Dodge//SRT and Mopar Producers Halfway Exhibit
Followers in attendance at NHRA Tenting World nationwide occasions in 2023 are invited to go to Dodge//SRT and Mopar’s large 4,800-square-foot show, one of many largest reveals within the NHRA’s Producers Halfway. On the Dodge//SRT and Mopar show, they will meet their favourite Dodge//SRT drivers for autographs and take a look at a collection of Direct Connection efficiency components and automobiles. As well as, drag-racing followers can check their digital abilities and expertise a nitro move from the driving force’s seat of the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Humorous Automotive simulator. The interactive exhibit additionally incorporates a pair of Dodge Challenger SRT Demon simulators.
Mopar Profession Automotive Program (CAP)
Now coming into its fifth season, the Dodge//SRT and Mopar exhibit may also host Mopar Profession Automotive Program (CAP) activations at seven NHRA nationwide occasions, starting on the NHRA Gatornationals in March. The Mopar CAP program is devoted to recruiting, coaching and putting the perfect service technicians within the trade in Stellantis dealerships. College students are invited to go to the informational sales space, which options a topic skilled, program data, video games and giveaways. Extra data is obtainable at Moparcap.com.
NHRA on FOX and NHRA.TV
This season, Dodge//SRT and Mopar manufacturers will proceed to accomplice with NHRA as a part of their multi-year full media package deal, which incorporates NHRA on FOX commercials and integration. All 21 nationwide occasions might be broadcast on both FOX or FS1. Continuous observe motion may also stream reside on NHRA.TV.
The NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Winternationals tv protection will air on Fox Sports activities 1 with qualifying highlights 1 on Saturday, March 11 at 10 a.m. Japanese with qualifying highlights 2 on Sunday, March 12 at 9 a.m. Japanese. The Pep Boys Prime Gas Callout finals might be proven at 10:30 a.m. Japanese on Sunday on FS1 with three hours of eliminations set for FOX Community at midday Japanese on Sunday.
Dodge//SRT
For greater than 100 years, the Dodge model has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their affect continues at the moment as Dodge shifts into excessive gear with a lineup that delivers unequalled efficiency in every of the segments the place they compete.
Dodge drives ahead as a pure efficiency model, providing SRT Hellcat variations of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, in addition to an R/T efficiency hybrid model of the all-new Dodge Hornet, representing the model’s first-ever electrified efficiency car. Dodge delivers the dragstrip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Tremendous Inventory; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, probably the most highly effective and quickest mass-produced sedan on the earth; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, probably the most highly effective SUV ever; and best-in-class customary efficiency within the compact utility car section with the Dodge Hornet. Mixed, these 4 muscle automobiles make Dodge the trade’s strongest model, providing extra horsepower than every other American model throughout its total lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge model ranked No. 1 within the J.D. Energy APEAL Research (mass market), making it the one home model ever to take action three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the “#1 Model in Preliminary High quality,” making it the primary home model ever to rank No. 1 within the J.D. Energy Preliminary High quality Research (IQS).
Dodge is a part of the portfolio of manufacturers provided by main international automaker and mobility supplier Stellantis. For extra data concerning Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), go to www.stellantis.com.
Mopar
Mopar is the worldwide title for Stellantis real components and genuine equipment.
A easy mixture of the phrases MOtor and PARts, Mopar provides distinctive service, components and customer-care. Born in 1937 because the title of a line of antifreeze merchandise, Mopar has advanced over greater than 85 years to characterize each full car care and genuine efficiency for homeowners and fanatics worldwide.
Mopar made its mark within the Sixties through the muscle-car period with efficiency components to reinforce velocity and dealing with for each on-road and racing use. Later, Mopar expanded to incorporate technical service and buyer help, and at the moment integrates service, components and customer-care operations with a purpose to improve buyer and vendor help worldwide.
Full data on Mopar is obtainable at www.mopar.com and the newly redesigned Mopar weblog at www.weblog.mopar.com. For extra data concerning Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please go to www.stellantis.com.
Observe Mopar and firm information and video on:
Firm weblog: weblog.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Media web site: media.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Mopar model: www.mopar.com/
Mopar weblog: weblog.mopar.com/
Fb: www.fb.com/mopar
Instagram: www.instagram.com/officialmopar
Twitter: twitter.com/OfficialMOPAR
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/mopar or www.youtube.com/StellantisNA
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