{"id":1455,"date":"2015-04-27T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:56:03","slug":"dsr-continued-nhra-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"DSR Continues NHRA Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The multi-car racing contingent from Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) continued their season dominance for NHRA Funny Car racing when team driver Ron Capps claimed victory during NHRA’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Nationals.<\/em><\/p>\n

Capps earned his second national title victory of the year with a trip to the winner\u2019s circle at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) SpringNationals near Houston on a day recognized by Mopar fans as HEMI Day (4\/26) named after the legendary 426 HEMI engine which helped power the new 2015 Mopar Dodge Charger R\/T to its fifth win in six events since making its debut this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very pleased to see how well the Don Schumacher Racing team has embraced the new 2015 Mopar Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car and taken it to the winner\u2019s circle for a fifth time this season with a victory by Ron Capps at the SpringNationals,\u201d said Pietro Gorlier, President and CEO \u2013 Mopar Brand Service, Parts and Customer Care. \u201cEveryone at Mopar is looking forward to seeing this team and the new Mopar contend for many more wins this year and work to defend the championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(The final round was all DSR with Ron Capps defeating Jack Beckman)<\/p><\/div>\n

Seeded third, Capps faced his DSR teammate and No.1 qualifier Jack Beckman for the all-Mopar final elimination in what was a close race until the midway point where both drivers began to haze the tires. Capps crossed the finish first with a 4.244 second elapsed time run at 258.32 mile per hour (mph) to beat Beckman\u2019s 4.480\/205.16 pass to post his 44th career Funny Car victory putting him second on the all-time list.<\/p>\n

This is Capps\u2019 third title win in Houston (2006-2007) and his third final round appearance of the 2015 season. The first came in the season opening event at Pomona against DSR teammate and 2014 NHRA Funny Car champion Matt Hagan, followed by a coveted national title victory at the Gatornationals. With his winning performance at the SpringNationals, Capps takes over the lead in the Funny Car points standings from his teammate Matt Hagan.<\/p>\n

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(With his victory – Ron Capps has assumed the NHRA points lead)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThat new car is just so nice to drive,\u201d said Capps who credits the increased visibility of the newly designed Dodge Charger R\/T Funny Car for his team\u2019s early success this year. \u201cI said it in Gainesville, the only bad thing is that now I can see out the side windows and that not a good thing when I\u2019ve got a fender going 300 miles per hour out my window, but it\u2019s exciting. It\u2019s great to give the new Charger another win as hard as everyone worked at Dodge to make that body possible. I was like a little kid starting over as a rookie when they brought that car to the race track. I thought, \u201cMan this is the greatest thing ever\u201d. I forgot how good it was to drive a car like that. This is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beckman, who posted the track\u2019s very first three-second run on Friday night, saw his runner-up finish and No.1 qualifier position propel him and his Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R\/T from tenth in the standings to sixth.<\/p>\n

“I’m complaining about a runner-up finish because we are that good now,” said Beckman about his second trip to the final round of eliminations this year after a win at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals a few weeks ago in Charlotte. “We had a malfunction in the fuel system, the slide valve which bypasses fuel, the fuel curve was off. We didn’t have time to check it on the warm-up because you lose 20 minutes of turnaround time (for live television). This is the downside about live television. You take a chance of not getting into your normal routine. You have to take some shortcuts for the quick turnaround times and in our case it bit us. It bit Capps\u2019 team too. They didn’t make an optimal run, theirs was just better than ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Jack Beckman reset the track record at Royal Purple Raceway to 3.988 secs while earning the pole)<\/p><\/div>\n

All four DSR entries were paired up against each other in the quarterfinals with Beckman defeating Tommy Johnson Jr. and his Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R\/T, while Capps beat reigning world champion Matt Hagan when the Rocky Boots\/ Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R\/T dropped some cylinders on the pass.<\/p>\n

“We race a lot against Ron (Capps),” said Hagan, who is now second in the standings, six points behind Capps. “You want to win against your teammates more than anyone else because you know they are the best cars out here. They have the same parts as us and it’s all about who does a better job on the racetrack and they got us today.”<\/p>\n

Event Essentials: \u00a0 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts \u00a0Nationals (Apr. 24-26th, 2015) Baytown TX\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nNAME<\/strong><\/td>\nET<\/strong><\/td>\nMPH<\/strong><\/td>\nCAREER WIN<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winner:<\/strong><\/td>\nRon Capps<\/td>\n\u00a04.244<\/td>\n258.92<\/td>\n\u00a044th<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R\/UP:<\/strong><\/td>\nJack Beckman<\/td>\n\u00a04.480<\/td>\n205.16<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Low ET:<\/strong><\/td>\nJack Beckman<\/td>\n\u00a03.988<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Top Speed:<\/strong><\/td>\nMatt Hagan<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0320.81<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bump Spot:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n\u00a05.395<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Event Entries:<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a017 cars<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Posted by: \u00a0Pat Caporali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The multi-car racing contingent from Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) continued their season dominance for NHRA Funny Car racing when team driver Ron Capps claimed victory during NHRA’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Nationals. Capps earned his second national title victory of the year with a trip to the winner\u2019s circle at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nitrofccanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}