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 ...

NHRA 2022 Funny Car Champ Ron Capps straps on his helmet for a thrill-ride in a NASCAR Racing Experience stock car, Charlotte Motor Speedway, April 2023. Drag-racer Ron Capps, 57, has seen it all in ...

There stood Angelle Sampey, dazzling in a red evening gown, wearing red gloves that climbed above her elbows. It was in 2000, ...

Three-time NHRA Funny Car champion Ron Capps was the biggest story out of last year’s NHRA US Nationals, the most prestigious drag race in the world. He began the weekend by unveiling a stunning ...

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 ...

Ron Capps miraculously walked away after his violent NHRA accident in this past Sunday’s opening round of the Arizona Nationals eliminations at Firebird Motorsports Park. During his run against Blake ...

Ron Capps made his first NHRA Drag Racing Series pro start in 1995 at the site of this weekend's Arizona Nationals. These days, Capps is still winning and happy to help others who might want to follow ...

Revenge-seeking rival Robert Hight and Matt Hagan are, like Capps, gunning for a fourth NHRA Funny Car championship. Hight driven by reclaiming “the one that got away" in 2022. Capps and Hight are the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla — Three-time NHRA World Champion Ron Capps is heading to Gainesville to race in the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals on March 7-9. Before getting into the driver’s seat, he sat ...

Capps is one of those drivers who has driven in other disciplines and experienced different cars and, thus, safety gear.

SAN DIEGO — Ron Capps secured his first Funny Car victory in over a year last weekend at the NHRA national event in Bristol, Tennessee. The win marks Carlsbad native's eighth triumph at the Bristol ...

A directive that once was the rule rather than the exception is back in play again in the NHRA after Ron Capps last year became the first Funny Car back-to-back champion since the legendary John Force ...