Matt Hagan, driver of the Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage Dodge//SRT Hellcat Funny Car:​

  • Earned No. 17 provisional qualifying position in Q1 on Friday (7.907 ET at 77.72 mph)
  • Earned No. 7 provisional qualifying position in Q2 on Friday (3.932 ET at 328.78 mph)
  • Fell to No. 8 provisional qualifying position based off of Friday’s Q2 run. In Q3 on Saturday, Hagan ran a 4.222 ET at 219.97 mph.
  • Secured No. 8 qualifying position in Q4 on Saturday (3.903 ET at 317.79 mph)
  • Advanced to Semifinals on Sunday:
  • Round 1: 3.884 ET at 324.59 mph, defeated Alexis DeJoria (9.685 ET at 86.38 mph)
  • Round 2: 3.940 ET at 324.51 mph, defeated Blake Alexander (3.944 ET at 325.22 mph)
  • Semifinals: 3.915 ET at 316.82 mph, lost to Jack Beckman (3.860 ET at 328.62 mph)
  • Currently third in the championship standings, 74 points behind Funny Car leader Jack Beckman
  • Stewart advanced to his third career Final and the 65h NHRA Winternationals marked his first final-round appearance at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Stewart’s previous final-round appearances were the 2024 NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Las Vegas and the 2024 NHRA Sonoma Nationals.
  • By advancing to the Semifinals, Hagan improved his position in the Funny Car championship point standings from seventh to third.
  • By advancing to Round 2, Hagan and Stewart have secured their positions in the NHRA’s #2Fast2Tasty Mission Challenge, where Hagan will face off against Blake Alexander at Las Vegas and Stewart will race Doug Kalitta. The Round 2 finalists from Pomona will rematch during qualifying on Saturday, with bonus money and points on the line.
  • The Winternationals served as Rinnai’s first race as primary sponsor in 2025 with Stewart.

“Our TSR crew did a great job this weekend with some of the guys swapping positions. Thomas (Brown) lost his mother yesterday and he’s right back at it today. I’m sure it is an emotional battle for him right now and we are thinking about him and family in this tough time. We are making great progress with this TSR Dodge//SRT Hellcat team. We are steadily making good runs at each event. We wanted to put Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage back in victory lane like we did last year in Dallas. All in all, we are making rounds. That was a big ‘boomer’ at the top end against Jack (Beckman). It looks like it broke a rod there. I told the NHRA safety guy Joey that it was a matter of time before we had an engine go and it was my turn this time. I’m glad there wasn’t a big fire, and I could see things in front of me. I had no warning about the ‘boomer’ and it was big enough that it stung my hands pretty good. It is tough here at Pomona with the shorter runoff. I am happy the parachutes came out well and I was on the brakes hard. You’ll have those things in big-time drag racing. No warning of the ‘boomer’ made it pretty wild at the top end. We’ll put it back together. Tony Stewart Racing gives us plenty of parts and pieces. We’ll go to the Four-Wide in Las Vegas looking to win that one again.”
























































































































































































































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