{"id":2860,"date":"2025-03-28T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:17:57","slug":"a-16-year-old-girls-first-drag-race-in-a-new-truck-and-quarter-final-round-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=2860","title":{"rendered":"A 16-Year Old Girl\u2019s First Drag Race in a New Truck and Quarter-Final Round Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery, AL &#8211; Emma did not race in Junior Dragster. Instead, she played softball and flag football. This 16-Year old, cheered on by her mom, dad, and friends, had an incredible start to the world of drag racing last night.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0869.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>Emma Gunn made a few test laps weeks ago and her father thought that she was more than ready to enter her first competition last night.<\/p>\n<p>The family attended Montgomery International Dragway\u2019s warm-up race, leading into the big bucks weekend, and Emma won several rounds of competition, losing at 7 cars, the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>It was her first ever drag race and her first time racing her new S-10 Truck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0692-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2859\" width=\"960\" height=\"934\"><\/p>\n<p>Emma mainly played softball during her grade-school years, instead of racing junior dragsters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to see that drag racing is still a family sport!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Emma from DragCoverage! Be sure to send us your cool stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery, AL &#8211; Emma did not race in Junior Dragster. Instead, she played softball and flag football. This 16-Year old, cheered on by her mom, dad, and friends, had an incredible start to the world of drag racing last night. Emma Gunn made a few test laps weeks ago and her father thought that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[54],"class_list":{"0":"post-2860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bracket-racing"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0869-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_0869-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"TJ Pruitt","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/admin"},"authors":[{"term_id":54,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"TJ Pruitt","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fdde352a01ed2be39f8cb735395b54c17edb1d8bcd2cc29ce5510de15709685?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"TJ","last_name":"Pruitt","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}