{"id":104690,"date":"2026-09-01T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/ron-capps-motorsports-goes-all-in-with-carlyle-tools-at-u-s-nationals\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:44:07","slug":"ron-capps-motorsports-goes-all-in-with-carlyle-tools-at-u-s-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/ron-capps-motorsports-goes-all-in-with-carlyle-tools-at-u-s-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Capps Motorsports Goes All-In with Carlyle Tools at U.S. Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of the championship-winning Ron Capps Motorsports team might feel like they\u2019re seeing double when Ron Capps and Maddi Gordon hit the track Friday night at this weekend\u2019s NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. Both Capps and Gordon\u2019s 12,000-horsepower machines will sport the signature Carlyle Tools venom green at the 72nd running of the Big Go with Capps\u2019 Funny Car decked out to match his Top Fuel teammate\u2019s livery.
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\u201cWe always like to do something a little extra special for Indy and with Maddi in the Carlyle car this year, and this being an event that\u2019s sponsored by one of Carlyle\u2019s competitors, we really wanted to play into that,\u201d said Capps, a two-time U.S. Nationals champion, who will make his 31st appearance at the historic event this weekend. \u201cIt\u2019s great that so many tool companies want to be involved with NHRA teams and invest their marketing dollars in our sport, and we really wanted to lean into that and have a little fun with the \u2018tool wars.\u2019\u201d
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In addition to driving a Carlyle Tools-branded Funny Car, Capps will swap his usual blue and yellow NAPA Auto Care firesuit for one that matches Gordon\u2019s, while the team will wear Carlyle crew shirts.
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Headquartered in nearby Brownsburg, Ron Capps Motorsports will be looking to sweep the nitro categories at its hometown event, a feat the fifth-year organization accomplished earlier this summer in Norwalk, Ohio when Capps scored his 80th Wally trophy and Gordon won her first Top Fuel race. Capps enters the weekend from the No. 3 position and within striking distance of reclaiming the No. 1 spot, a ranking he previously occupied through nine of the first 13 races thanks to his three wins in four final round appearances, while Gordon starts the weekend in fifth after advancing to her second Top Fuel final at the NHRA Brainerd Nationals. Just like her boss, Gordon has also previously visited the Indianapolis Raceway Park winner\u2019s circle, having powered to victory at the 2024 Cleetus & Cars event during her two-year tenure driving a Top Alcohol Funny Car, but this weekend marks the Rookie of the Year contender\u2019s professional U.S. Nationals debut.
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\u201cObviously, we go into every event with our sights set on the winner\u2019s circle, but I\u2019d be lying if I said we weren\u2019t gunning for it a little harder this weekend because let\u2019s be honest, how sweet would it be for the Carlyle cars to get the W at Cornwell\u2019s race,\u201d added Capps. \u201cMaddi and her team were so close in Brainerd. They\u2019re just out there making lap after consistent lap, and there\u2019s no one that doesn\u2019t look at that team as a bonafide threat in the Countdown. As for our Funny Car team, we\u2019re less than one round-win out of first. We stayed behind after Brainerd to test and feel really good about our chances of picking up a fourth diamond Wally trophy and reclaiming that No. 1 ranking to win the regular season championship.\u201d
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A limited-edition commemorative Carlyle Tools t-shirts featuring Capps and Gordon\u2019s venom green machines will be available for purchase throughout the weekend at the Carlyle Tools Outlaw trailer in the Nitro Alley midway. Fans can get their shirts signed by Capps and Gordon during their multiple 30-minute Outlaw trailer appearances, scheduled for 5 p.m. ET on Friday, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. Sunday. Qualifying for the NHRA U.S. Nationals gets underway on Friday, Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Broadcast coverage is scheduled for Sept. 6 \u2013 7 on FS1 and FOX.<\/p>\n

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Fans of the championship-winning Ron Capps Motorsports team might feel like they\u2019re seeing double when Ron Capps and Maddi Gordon hit the track Friday night at this weekend\u2019s NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. Both Capps and Gordon\u2019s 12,000-horsepower machines will sport the signature Carlyle Tools venom green at the 72nd running of the Big Go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}