Ron Capps, driver of the NAPA Auto Care Funny Car, skated into his first Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge win of the season on Saturday afternoon at the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals. The California native defeated Alexis DeJoria and Jack Beckman in front of packed grandstands at Sonoma Raceway to win the specialty event.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge kicked off in a rematch of the semifinals in Norwalk, Ohio, where Capps secured his 80th professional win alongside his Ron Capps Motorsports teammate, Maddi Gordon, who won her first in Top Fuel. Capps got the starting line advantage over DeJoria and held on to that lead in his Dean \u201cGuido\u201d Antonelli-tuned machine, making the second-quickest run of the session, going 3.941 seconds at 329.26 mph while DeJoria ran into tire smoke.<\/p>\n
In the finals, Capps and Beckman left within two-thousandths of one another, and Beckman was slightly ahead of Capps to the 330-foot mark when both drove into tire smoke. Capps\u2019 instincts took over as he got right back on the throttle and his 12,000-horsepower machine took him for a wild ride, veering from side to side as he pedaled to the stripe ahead of Beckman. The three-time world champion used his 30 years of experience to keep it off the wall and away from the centerline on his way to victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s crazy is, while things are really good, we don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re at our best right now,\u201d remarked Capps. \u201cBut we\u2019re leading the points and we\u2019ve won three Wallys. So if we are not feeling at our absolute best and we\u2019re still having the season we\u2019re having so far, it\u2019s great. Because I know when Guido gets a few more things ironed out and he\u2019s more comfortable, it\u2019s gonna be fun. It\u2019s cool that we\u2019re not there yet. But what\u2019s great is to add these little points. You don\u2019t want to talk about them too much but at the same time, it means so much to us. So the fact that this Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge offers bonus points \u2013 that\u2019s huge. Championships can be won and lost on just a couple of points. I was just talking to Jack Beckman about that, reminding him that the last championship he won, he beat me by only two points. Those little points end up being huge as we go through the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the car went sideways off the bat, I said it was like driving a sprint car. I\u2019ve been very lucky to get to race in a lot of different things like SRX, sprint cars, dirt late models, and midgets. I think it\u2019s always helped me when I\u2019ve gotten back into the Funny Car. There\u2019s nothing closer to a nitro Funny Car than a midget or sprint car when they\u2019re not hooked up. Over the years, that experience has helped me. In this case, for sure. I can guarantee if I\u2019d never driven a dirt car, I probably couldn\u2019t have pulled that off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eliminations for the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals will begin tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at Sonoma Raceway. Capps\u2019 Friday evening run of 3.900 at 330.07 put him in the No. 4 qualifying position where he will race Austin Prock in the opening round of NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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