{"id":4589,"date":"2026-10-10T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:34:19","slug":"from-first-time-to-double-winner-new-racers-dream-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"From First-Time to Double Winner: New Racer\u2019s Dream Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Keith DeJean pulled into Gulfport Dragway with a street-legal truck and zero bracket racing experience. That first visit became the beginning of something special.<\/p>\n<p>Winner\u2019s checks followed, then this year\u2019s Summer Points Series championship. Now, he\u2019s won the \u00bc-Mile Street Class and Busch Light King of the Mountain in the same night, in the same truck!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8d21eec1-23c6-4548-9fe0-8fe1e8158fe6.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4588\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see new people find their place in our sport. Keith\u2019s journey reminds us that chasing a dream, practicing and never giving up can lead to great success.<\/p>\n<p>Keep welcoming newcomers and encouraging them. The next champion could be arriving for their first race. Congratulations, Keith!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Keith DeJean pulled into Gulfport Dragway with a street-legal truck and zero bracket racing experience. That first visit became the beginning of something special. Winner\u2019s checks followed, then this year\u2019s Summer Points Series championship. Now, he\u2019s won the \u00bc-Mile Street Class and Busch Light King of the Mountain in the same night, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8d21eec1-23c6-4548-9fe0-8fe1e8158fe6-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8d21eec1-23c6-4548-9fe0-8fe1e8158fe6-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"DC Media","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/auteejay"},"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"auteejay","display_name":"DC Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d51765f05e753046aaf69cf0314e9a0f5c5945d8d9ed498ce027408f7d38abf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"DC","last_name":"Media","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}