{"id":42183,"date":"2017-07-24T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2018-08-16T12:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:34:11","slug":"nhra-mile-high-dreams-come-true-for-brown-hight-and-skillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nhra-mile-high-dreams-come-true-for-brown-hight-and-skillman\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA Mile High Dreams Come True for Brown, Hight and Skillman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Credit: NHRA Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The champions of the NHRA found just the spark they needed to see their mile-high dreams come true at this weekend\u2019s 38th<\/sup> annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals.<\/p>\n

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Top Fuel
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After coming up short in his three previous final round appearances, NHRA World Champion Antron Brown was able to overcome his slump at Bandimere Speedway. Despite teammate Leah Pritchett earning the top qualifying position in Denver, Brown earned his third victory of the season and 64th<\/sup> in his career with a final pass of 3.792-seconds \u00a0at 319.82 MPH.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis race definitely put us through a marathon this weekend, but seeing those win lights makes it all worthwhile,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

This victory also moved Brown ahead of his teammate in the point standings, who currently sits second in the Top Fuel standings behind Steve Torrence.<\/p>\n

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Funny Car<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The most talked-about win of the weekend in Denver occurred in the Funny Car division. The John Force Racing Funny Car family qualified both first and second at the Mopar Mile-High Nationals. On Saturday Courtney Force secured her second consecutive pole position, while her father John Force was a close second.<\/p>\n

Although teammate Robert Hight qualified third, he would rise to the occasion during Sunday\u2019s final elimination rounds. After defeating Todd Simpson, Jack Beckman and Cruz Pedregon, the John Force Racing driver moved onto his third final round of 2017 against Tommy Johnson, Jr.<\/p>\n

With a pass of 3.995-seconds at 317.57 MPH in his Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet against Johnson Jr.\u2019s 4.099-second pass at 297.16 MPH, Hight would earn his first victory of the season and the 38th<\/sup> of his career. Hight\u2019s win also marked the 13th consecutive season in which he has earned at least one victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe struggled through the first few rounds, but I have a great team who figured things out and helped get me to the winner\u2019s circle,\u201d said Hight. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a long-time coming and we hope this continues throughout the Western Swing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This win also pushed Hight to third in the Funny Car point standings behind Ron Capps and Matt Hagan.<\/p>\n

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Pro Stock<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pro Stock division gave a rising star back-to-back wins. No. 1 weekend qualifier Drew Skillman maintained the success that he found at the recent NHRA Route 66 Nationals in Denver. Skillman\u2019s hot streak pushed him past Richie Stevens and Jason Line before moving on to face points leader Bo Butner in the final round.<\/p>\n

With a 6.916-second pass at 198.15 MPH, Skillman would become the first Pro Stock driver to earn consecutive victories in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe obviously have a good car and a great team,\u201d said Skillman. \u201cWe have finally figured out a way to put it all together, and as long as we stay aggressive as a team we know we can keep winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

This win has continued to move Skillman up in the point standings to the seventh position going into Sonoma.<\/p>\n

The 2017 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season continues with the Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals, at Sonoma Raceway, July 28-30. Stay tuned to RacingJunk.com<\/a> for all your NHRA coverage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The champions of the NHRA found just the spark they needed to see their mile-high dreams come true at this weekend\u2019s 38th annual Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":42184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029,3399,22],"tags":[82,1972,1619,41,7,1632,440],"class_list":["post-42183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","category-nhra","category-event-coverage","tag-antron-brown","tag-drew-skillman","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-racing","tag-robert-hight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DenverWinnerCircle.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-aYn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42188,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions\/42188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}