The chance of fire, you’re sitting right behind the engine, so everything is as high-rated as you can get from SFI.”  Capps ...

Reigning Top Fuel world champion Doug Kalitta shattered the track speed record in the final round en route to the win on ...

Three-time NHRA Funny Car champion Ron Capps says if Carlyle Tools hadn’t agreed to sponsor Maddi Gordon this year in Top Fuel, he would have stepped out of his Funny Car and turned it over to his ...

Carlsbad’s Ron Capps has been voted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. The drag racer is a three-time Funny Car world champion and owns the second-most Funny Car wins — 77 — in National Hot ...

Dane Neal of WGN radio and NHRA Funny Car World Champion Ron Capps at U.S. Nationals – all photos Dane Neal/WGN Radio 3-time NHRA Nitro Funny Car World Champion, Ron Capps joins Dane Neal from WGN ...

There’s already enough incentive to attend the California Hot Rod Reunion and Nitro Revival Oct. 24 to 26. The event will combine two main events into one as the California Hot Rod Reunion and the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — It’s an hour after Maddi Gordon lost in the semifinals of the NHRA season opener, and fans are packed five or six deep at her hauler. They’re holding T-shirts, promotional ...

(AP) Ron Capps raced to his second Funny Car victory of the season Sunday for his fourth career win in the NHRA Sonoma Nationals. The Californian powered his Dodge Charger to a 4.085-second run at 307 ...

For weeks, funny car driver Ron Capps refused to let anyone — himself included — prematurely celebrate a season championship, no matter how sure it seemed. After all, he’d gotten tantalizingly close ...