NHRA Midwest Nationals Event 16 of 20 Countdown Event 3 of 7 World Wide Technology Raceway Madison, Ill. Sept. 24 - 26, 2021
Noteworthy:
- DSR Dodge Hellcat Funny Car pilots Ron Capps and Matt Hagan enter the weekend ranked No. 1 and 2 in the Countdown to the Championship point standings, with Hagan trailing Capps by five points
- Capps, the winningest Funny Car driver at World Wide Technology Raceway, will look to add to his four St. Louis wins as he pursues a second Camping World Series title
- As the three-time and defending Funny Car series champ, Hagan will be focused on taking last year’s Midwest Nationals runner-up finish one step further as he chases his first St. Louis triumph and fourth series title
- Hagan’s two worlds will collide this weekend as he proudly debuts the New Holland Funny Car. As a race car driver on the weekend and rancher during the week, Hagan, aka the ‘world’s fastest farmer,’ looks forward to bannering the New Holland colors in St. Louis. For the past eight years, he has relied on New Holland’s equipment on his 3,400-acre cattle and hemp farm
- With five Midwest Nationals trophies, championship-contender Antron Brown returns to St. Louis as the winningest Camping World Series competitor in the track’s history
- Double-duty driver Leah Pruett will be looking to avenge last year’s horrific Top Fuel crash which occurred during the second round of eliminations and derailed her 2020 title hopes
- Mark Pawuk reset both ends of the Factory Stock Showdown Series St. Louis track record (7.814 seconds at 175.48 MPH) in 2020 to earn the provisional pole on Friday evening before the remainder of the event was postponed until Houston
DSR Track Records: Top Fuel, speed: 332.75 mph, Leah Pruett (2017) Factory Stock, E.T.: 7.814 seconds, Mark Pawuk (2020) Factory Stock, speed: 175.48 mph, Pawuk (2020)
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