Ron Capps cannot bring himself to leave an autograph-seeking fan sitting at the ropes of his pit area.
Ron Capps said each autograph is special to him.
“It’s that one person you can walk away from, and maybe it’s a kid, that gets to you,” Capps admitted.
Capps remembers, as a kid, drawing the wrath of Funny Car legend Don
Prudhomme for seeking an autograph while walking through a restaurant.
“He was eating and I wanted his autograph,” Capps recalled. “I remember him yelling at me.”
Capps rewinds the memory of his devastation every time he’s tempted to walk away, leaving a fan.