Category Archives: Ron Capps Motorsports

POMONA, Calif. (February 20, 2022) – It was a near-perfect weekend for defending NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion Ron Capps, who raced to a runner-up finish at his debut event as a team owner. In what can only be described as a dominant qualifying performance, Capps started race day from the No. 1

POMONA, Calif. (February 19, 2022) – Ron Capps couldn’t have scripted it better if he had tried. The defending NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion will start his first race day as a driver/team owner from the pole position, and will go head-to-head against John Force in his first elimination round racing under the

“To say this is the most excited I’ve ever felt heading into the Winternationals would be an understatement. Obviously, 1997, making my debut as a rookie driving for Don ‘the Snake’ Prudhomme was pretty exciting and overwhelming, but coming into this season as a team owner and driver, and defending our championship, and then you

Competition Plus – On his first day on the track as a team owner/driver, Ron Capps showed them who’s the boss. In one of the final pulls of Day Two testing at the PRO Nitro Spring Training event, Capps drove his way to the top of the Funny Car leader board with a 3.874-second, 325.14

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (February 7, 2022) – When two-time and defending NHRA world champion Ron Capps straps into his NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car during the PRO Nitro Spring Training test session this week, it will mark the first time he hits the track as both a team owner and driver. For the past 27 years,

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (December 28, 2021) – Ron Capps’ championship-winning crew chiefs Dean ‘Guido’ Antonelli and John Medlen are highly-regarded as among the ‘best of the best’ in the world of NHRA Drag Racing, and as they work alongside the new team owner/driver to assemble the recently-launched Ron Capps Motorsports operation, they are intent on being ultra-selective

Ron Capps has been teasing the news for weeks, but on Friday afternoon at the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in Indianapolis, the reigning and two-time NHRA Funny Car world champion made it official, announcing the launch of Ron Capps Motorsports, a new NHRA race team with Capps pulling double-duty, serving as team owner and

Don Schumacher Racing driver Ron Capps was crowned the 2021 NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion on Sunday during the NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. Capps, pilot of the NAPA AUTO PARTSDodge Charger SRT Hellcat, clinched his second Funny Car title to capture championship No. 19 for Don

Ron Capps is chasing his second Funny Car world championship and Don Schumacher Racing’s 19th series title, and by powering to a runner-up finish at the Dodge//SRT NHRA Nationals Presented by Pennzoil, Capps extended his lead to 58 points over his No. 2 ranked teammate, Matt Hagan, departing the penultimate event of the 2021 NHRA

After racing to victory at the most recent event on the NHRA tour, Ron Capps entered the Thunder Valley Nationals looking to go back-to-back with consecutive Sunday wins, and add to his record five Bristol Dragway Funny Car triumphs. Capps led Don Schumacher Racing in qualifying by clocking the second-quickest Funny Car pass on Saturday