John Force Racing has been tough to beat this season, and that has proven especially true during the famed Western Swing.

With Courtney Force winning both pole positions, John Force taking the Wally last weekend in Denver and Robert Hight now collecting the trophy in Sonoma, it has been absolute dominance for JFR in the Funny Car ranks during the first two legs of the three-race western stretch.

Hight added yet another trophy to his impressive collection - the 43rd of his career, moving him into a tie for third on the all-time NHRA win list with Tony Pedregon - with a win over Ron Capps Sunday at the 31st annual Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals at Sonoma Raceway.

“This is the time of year you have to get it all together. If you want to win a championship you are looking toward the Countdown because it is only three races away,” Hight said. “You better have your act together and we are really starting to click as a team. There has only been one guy to ever sweep the western swing, and that is my boss, but right now as a team Chevrolet is dominating the swing with two wins. We have one more in Seattle and hopefully one of these Chevrolets can pull it off and we can say we swept the swing.”

Hight won for the second time in 2018, both times besting Don Schumacher Racing ace Ron Capps to get in done. On Sunday, Hight drove from the 11th position on the ladder to once again meet up with Capps in the final, overcoming an uncharacteristically slow reaction time to earn the victory.

Hight ran a 3.984-second pass at 319.75 mph in the Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car to collect the win, while Capps slowed across the stripe with a 4.077 at 296.11 mph.

“As the day goes on my confidence gets better and better, especially with the way our car was running. But I will be honest, I had my worst light of the day in the final against Capps. If he had just made a good run, he would have probably got us,” Hight said. “That bothers me. I had good lights all day and you have to step it up in the final and I didn’t. Luckily, I got the win. Next final I am not going to let that happen again.”

Hight added wins over Tommy Johnson Jr., Bob Tasca and Tim Wilkerson to collect his second Wally of 2018, having to traverse a much tougher path than usual thanks to a starting position in the bottom half of the field due to a poor two days of qualifying.

“We had three great days of racing and when you put in a night session here, you saw what we did here last year running 338 mph on Friday night. The conditions here are just crazy and this is a fast race track where anything can happen. Unfortunately for us, we missed it (during the night session),” Hight said. “We blew it up at 200 feet and when you do that it puts you behind the rest of the weekend. We went out there and tested a little bit on Saturday because Jimmy Prock and Chris Cunningham haven’t been happy with the setup. They tried some things yesterday and they will both tell you what they tried didn’t work.

“They came into race day with more testing and more things to try, but they just have a good feel for what these cars need. They gave me a lot of confidence going into that first round. Normally as the 11th qualifier you are not very confident, but they told me, ‘this thing is going to be just fine, it is going to run good,’ and it did.”

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Hight had relatively easy advances in the first two rounds, before a very close semifinal matchup with Johnson. Both cars left together and stayed together to the stripe, with Hight just edging Johnson with a 3.956 to a 3.990, a run Hight called, “the run of the day in Funny Car.”

Capps had wins over John Force, Matt Hagan and Richard Townsend to reach his fourth final round of the year.

With the win, Hight moves up a spot to third in the championship standings with three races remaining before the cutoff for the Countdown. But even more exciting was the fact that Sunday’s win was the second for Hight at what he considers his home race, last winning here in 2008.

“Sonoma Raceway really knows how to do it right. This is the place you want to bring sponsors and show off your sport and your team,” Hight said. “I have been here at every national event they have held here, starting as a fan in the early 90s, then as a crew member in the 2000s and then in 2005 and beyond as a driver. I am fortunate to get my second win here. I call this my home track and this place has a special meaning to me.”