{"id":100911,"date":"2025-05-27T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/staging-lanes-the-real-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:18:22","slug":"staging-lanes-the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/staging-lanes-the-real-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"STAGING LANES: The Real Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s own Tommy D\u2019Aprile, who pens the long-running \u201cThe Real Deal\u201d column in this magazine, launches hard in his Sir Thomas Performance\/Right Trailers Grand Am during a Top Sportsman qualifying session at the SCAG Power Equipment PRO Superstar Shootout. <\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #193, t<\/em><em>he Interview Issue<\/em>, in March \/ April of 2025.]<\/p>\n<p>While D\u2019Aprile is known for his many years of success in Pro Modified, Pro Extreme, and Pro Boost, he\u2019s also a rather astute bracket racer, as he proved once eliminations kicked off. He raced his way to the fifth and final round against Andrew Johnson. It was a double breakout, and D\u2019Aprile ended up on the losing end of it with a 7.323 on his 7.34 dial-in to Johnson\u2019s 7.277 on a 7.29 dial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Robert Richard<br \/>Bradenton Motorsports Park<br \/>Bradenton, Florida<br \/>Thursday, February 6th, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-modified-info\">This story was originally published on May 27, 2025. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DI_flat_red-e1711481551475.png\" width=\"20px\" alt=\"Drag Illustrated\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/staging-lanes-the-real-deal\/\">STAGING LANES: The Real Deal<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/\">Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida\u2019s own Tommy D\u2019Aprile, who pens the long-running \u201cThe Real Deal\u201d column in this magazine, launches hard in his Sir Thomas Performance\/Right Trailers Grand Am during a Top Sportsman qualifying session at the SCAG Power Equipment PRO Superstar Shootout. [Editor\u2019s Note: This story originally appeared in DI #193, the Interview Issue, in March \/ April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}