{"id":3183,"date":"2025-06-06T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2025-06-06T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:23:36","slug":"rookie-racer-wes-moores-epic-comeback-at-rocky-mountain-race-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Racer Wes Moore\u2019s Epic Comeback at Rocky Mountain Race Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rookie racer Wesley Moore suffered a head-on collision during a rainy travel day that destroyed his newly built Camaro at his first-ever Rocky Mountain Race Week. The crash also left Wes with a severe knee laceration requiring stitches. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5466-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3175\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most would have called it quits, but not Wes. With determination and the great work ethic of the Moore family grit, he and his dad, Reggie, made a bold call: rip off the wrecked front end and keep racing\u2014fenders be damned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5475-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3176\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1800\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the crew fully behind him, Wes not only continued but drove his wrecked Camaro to Thunder Valley Raceway, where he achieved a personal best of 12.15 seconds at 116.70 mph. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After the race, he drove himself to the hospital for treatment, cementing his place in Race Week history. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The team gives thanks that the accident wasn\u2019t worse, trusting \u201cGod WILL get the Glory!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5478-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3180\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5477-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3179\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5476-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3181\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5472-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3182\" width=\"1355\" height=\"1800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5467-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3177\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5468-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3178\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\"><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie racer Wesley Moore suffered a head-on collision during a rainy travel day that destroyed his newly built Camaro at his first-ever Rocky Mountain Race Week. The crash also left Wes with a severe knee laceration requiring stitches. Most would have called it quits, but not Wes. With determination and the great work ethic of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[54],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5469-1-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_5469-1-600x600.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\/3183","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=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}