MATT HAGAN
Dodge//SRT Hellcat Funny Car​

Unofficial Points Standing: 5th​

  • Four-time world champion (2023, 2020, 2014, 2011)
  • Finished 2025 season runner-up
  • Won the NHRA Winternationals, NHRA’s 1000th Funny Car race
  • 14 season streak with at least one win
  • Winningest professional driver at New England Dragway with four victories (2022, 2019, 2018, 2017)

Qualifying: No. 7​

  • Q1: 6.135 at 114.39
  • Q2: 3.954 at 328.46
  • Q3: 4.061 at 262.64
  • Q4: 3.977 at 324.90

Race Results:​

  • E1: 9.501 at 44.74 def. Del Worsham, -.171 red
  • E2: 4.020 at 323.04 lost to Jack Beckman 3.943 at 324.75

“I’ve never seen so much pollen in one place. It was unreal on the race track. You could see the layer of it. Kind of made you scratch your head a bit and think, is it going to be slick or sandy or something else. We went up there first round and just had a little bit more Hemi horsepower than we expected. Luckily, we got a gift from Del Worsham when he went red. He’s a great driver, a champion and I have a lot of respect to him. It was definitely wild to see him red light and then hit cones as well. He wasn’t alone that first round, I think eight or nine cones got hit.

Second round, we went up there and we just got beat. It was a good drag race, and we were just on the backside of it. Those John Force Racing cars are really running well over there, but like [crew chief] Phil Shuler has said, ‘We have to sweep our own porch and focus on what we have, and not what everybody else is doing.’ I think we are just fine. So, we move on to Bristol and try to get it done close to home.”






















































































































































































































































































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