Ron Capps with his Toyota GR Supra Funny Car – Photo Credit Toyota Gazoo Racing North America
Ron Capps with his Toyota GR Supra Funny Car – Photo Credit Toyota Gazoo Racing North America
Ron Capps won his second NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Funny Car championship last November as a contract driver for Don Schumacher Racing, the group he’d worked with since his former team owner, Don Prudhomme, shuttered his team at the close of the 2005 season. Since that time, Capps has driven Dodge/Mopar vehicles under the DSR banner, earning his second title in a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat over then-teammate Matt Hagan.
At the end of his 2021 championship season, Capps went on a new pathway. Both he and Hagan departed Schumacher’s enterprise, leaving that team owner with a single-car nitro team for Top Fuel standout Tony Schumacher. Hagan went to Tony Stewart’s nascent enterprise, taking his entire team along for the Funny Car ride while Capps started Ron Capps Motorsports. The only thing that changed for Capps, who also departed DSR with his 2021 squad intact, was the affiliation with Dodge and Mopar. Hagan retained that relationship; Capps did not.
It wasn’t a happy parting for Capps, who has been at or near the top of the 2022 Funny Car standings since the season began at Pomona in mid-February. While he has driven a Hellcat body since the start of the season, no reference has been made to the manufacturer, which tossed aside its long relationship with the Californian, who has recorded 69 national career victories (1 in Top Fuel) as the series heads to zMAX Dragway for the sixth race of the year, the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals.
Finally, one of the worst-kept secrets in drag racing has become fact: starting this weekend, Capps and Ron Capps Motorsports are racing a Toyota GR Supra in defense of their 2021 NHRA Funny Car title, joining Kalitta Motorsports’ J.R. Todd and DC Motorsports’ Alexis DeJoria in running the exceptionally…
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