{"id":86001,"date":"2022-06-07T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=86001"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:03:27","slug":"nhra-new-england-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/nhra-new-england-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRA New England Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-86001-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/Group-WC.2_MG-2048x1365-1-e1654624919547.webp&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;86020&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;NHRA New England Recap&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;NHRA New England Recap&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nPhotos and story via NHRA\\n\\nInterestingly this year, Funny Car focuses pioneer Matt Hagan knocked off Robert Hight in the last round, driving to a great third success of the time on Sunday at the NHRA New England Nationals at a sold-out New England Dragway.\\n\\nMike Salinas (Top Fuel) and Erica Enders (Pro Stock) likewise got succeeds at the eighth of 22 races during the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season. For the second consecutive day, NHRA and New England Dragway authorities declared a sellout swarm at the office.\\n\\nHagan conveyed a run of 3.922-seconds at 327.98 mph in his 11,000-pull Dodge Power Brokers Charger SRT Hellcat for Tony Stewart Racing in the title round against Hight, as the two champions met in the last for the third time in 2022. Hight won the initial two, including at the latest race, however Hagan acquired his 42nd profession win on Sunday. It\\u0026#8217;s likewise his fourth success at New England Dragway in the beyond five occasions, as Hagan knocked off Dale Creasy Jr. also, J.R. Todd to arrive at the last round. It was his 6th title round in eight races and followed with the great success against Hight.\\n\\n\\u201cIt was just a great weekend, and I can\\u2019t say enough about (crew chief) Dickie Venables,\\u201d Hagan said. \\u201cNothing really needs to be said because the race car speaks for itself. All the boys wrenching on the car just do a great job, and when I crawl in that car, I don\\u2019t have to think about anything other than leaving the starting line. I\\u2019m nothing without those guys, and I\\u2019m so proud of them. They truly deserve all the credit, and I should be giving all my trophies to these guys.\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re in a great rhythm, and Dickie is in a great mind space. I think we\\u2019re going to keep doing what we\\u2019re doing. There will be some lows, but that\\u2019s drag racing. You just try to ride this wave as long as you can. I give a lot of respect to Robert Hight and Jimmy Prock for showing up and showing out, and I love that. It creates a great rivalry for the fans.\\u201d\\n\\nHight stayed second in points, advancing to the final round for the fifth time this year and 89th overall with wins against Cory Lee, Alexis DeJoria and defending world champion Ron Capps.\\n\\nIn Top Fuel, Salinas drove to his third win in what has been a stellar 2022 campaign, powering past Justin Ashley in the final round with a 3.729 at 330.80 in his 11,000-horsepower Valley Services\\\/Scrappers Racing dragster. A year after falling in the final round at New England Dragway, Salinas made amends on Sunday, climbing to second in points with his sixth career victory. He reached the final round thanks to victories against Joe Morrison, Leah Pruett, and Austin Prock before getting past Ashley to pick up his first win at the historic facility.\\n\\n\\u201cI was glad to come back and redeem myself,\\u201d Salinas said. \\u201cI will honestly say I got lucky. This has been an off week for me. I\\u2019ve been all over the place and a mess. I would call this a lucky week for me. I was doing a couple of silly things in the car, but we know we have a good car, and we were still able to get the win. I love the people here and everyone here is so awesome. The fans and the people are amazing. They\\u2019re good people and 90 percent of them thanked us for coming. It\\u2019s a timeless place.\\u201d\\n\\nAshley reached the finals for the third time this year after round wins against Dan Mercier and Shawn Langdon. Brittany Force, who set the track speed record on Sunday with a run of 334.90, maintained the points lead, now 50 points over Salinas.\\n\\nMore than a month between Pro Stock races didn\\u2019t slow down Enders one bit, as the points leader stayed red-hot in Epping, capping off her weekend with a winning run of 6.547 at 211.00 in the finals in her Melling Performance\\\/Elite Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro. Enders knocked off defending event winner Aaron Stanfield in the final round, claiming her third straight victory and fourth in what\\u2019s been a dominant 2022 season.\\n\\nEnders reached the final round with victories against Kenny Delco, defending world champion Greg Anderson and Mason McGaha, and then led wire-to-wire against Stanfield to run away with her 37th career win. It\\u2019s only the second time in the four-time world champ\\u2019s career where she\\u2019s had a three-race winning streak, showing just how motivated she is to claim a fifth world title.\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re off to a tremendous start, and we\\u2019re going to enjoy the ride while it lasts and try to capitalize on it,\\u201d Enders said. \\u201cBut this is a dream come true. Any weekend we can stick two Elite Motorsports cars in the final round is awesome and winning here in 2017 kind of turned the tides for us. This is a unique place to run, and the cars usually run really well here. I love racing in this part of the country. It\\u2019s exciting to see the fan\\u2019s reception for our class when nitro kind of takes the lead because they explode and crash and run into things. But Pro Stock is so intricate and precise, and the fans here love it. This is Pro Stock country.\\n\\n\\u201cThis is our effort for our fifth title, and the fashion that we lost in last year was pretty gut wrenching. But that gave us the motivation to go to work. 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