{"id":99559,"date":"2025-03-19T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/shawn-reed-set-to-make-impact-at-nhra-arizona-nationals\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:18:30","slug":"shawn-reed-set-to-make-impact-at-nhra-arizona-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/shawn-reed-set-to-make-impact-at-nhra-arizona-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Reed Set to Make Impact at NHRA Arizona Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Reed is returning to familiar grounds and aiming high as the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series heads to Firebird Motorsports Park for the Arizona Nationals, March 21\u201323. Driving the Reed Trucking &amp; Excavating Top Fuel Dragster, Reed enters the event determined to capitalize on his past success and achieve a breakthrough victory.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s experience at Firebird Motorsports Park extends beyond the drag strip. Before competing in NHRA Top Fuel, Reed amassed an impressive collection of trophies racing Blown Alcohol Hydro Boats in the IHBA Lucas Oil Series on the facility\u2019s lake, a unique background he credits for his competitive edge.<\/p>\n<p>Last season at the NHRA Arizona Nationals, Reed demonstrated strong performance, qualifying eighth and reaching the quarterfinals. He secured his first round win of the 2024 season by defeating Jasmine Salinas in round one before narrowly falling to eventual race finalist Steve Torrence.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a challenging season opener in Gainesville\u2014where despite a solid seventh-place qualifying effort, he was defeated in round one by Jasmine Salinas\u2014Reed and his team are eager to rebound with a standout performance in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to this race after the rough outing in Gainesville,\u201d Reed said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t seem to get into a rhythm back there with all the rain and weather and power outages and drones hitting buildings\u2014it just wasn\u2019t meant to be for us that weekend. This race, no excuses. We are geared up and full speed ahead for chasing that Wally! The guys haven\u2019t forgotten what <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/reed-capps-and-t-coughlin-win-2nd-annual-scag-pro-superstar-shootout\/\" title=\"\">winning<\/a> feels like, and I have no doubt we\u2019ll achieve success in Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans can follow Reed\u2019s pursuit of victory starting Friday, March 21, at Firebird Motorsports Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-modified-info\">This story was originally published on March 19, 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\/shawn-reed-set-to-make-impact-at-nhra-arizona-nationals\/\">Shawn Reed Set to Make Impact at NHRA Arizona Nationals<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/\">Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Reed is returning to familiar grounds and aiming high as the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series heads to Firebird Motorsports Park for the Arizona Nationals, March 21\u201323. Driving the Reed Trucking &amp; Excavating Top Fuel Dragster, Reed enters the event determined to capitalize on his past success and achieve a breakthrough victory. Reed\u2019s [&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-99559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99559","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=99559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}