Ron Capps, the Funny Car runner-up to his Don Schumacher Racing
teammate Gary Scelzi in last year's Route 66 NHRA Nationals and the
winner of the 2005 fall event here, is ready for a second victory this
weekend at the driver-friendly Route 66 Raceway.
Driving the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car, Capps has
jumped up in the last few races from outside of the top 10 into sixth
place in the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car rankings.
He's focused on staying high in the standings when the Countdown to the
Championship kicks in for the top 10 following the U.S. Nationals in
Indianapolis on Labor Day weekend.
"Like I talked about last week in my blog on www.napaautoparts.com ,"
said Capps, who also was runner-up here in the 2002 fall event, "we are
getting into the part of the schedule where adversity is going to be
thrown at all of the teams, with the triple-digit track temperatures we
expect at all these tracks coming up. You look at Englishtown, N.J.,
and Norwalk, Ohio, after Chicago, and they're all places we expect to
have to run in the heat.