Category Archives: Ron Capps Motorsports

RON CAPPS Driver of the NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car NHRA Arizona Nationals Event Highlights: Three-time event winner (2003, 2009, 2013) Four-time runner-up (1998, 2000, 2005, 2017) Three-time No. 1 qualifier (2000, 2009, 2016) 2020 Phoenix Recap: Qualified eighth; Semifinal finish (defeated J.R. Todd in E1, Jeff Diehl in E2; defeated by Tommy Johnson Jr.

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