Ron Capps has been teasing the news for weeks, but on Friday afternoon at the Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in Indianapolis, the reigning and two-time NHRA Funny Car world champion made it official, announcing the launch of Ron Capps Motorsports, a new NHRA race team with Capps pulling double-duty,…
Capps Crowned 2021 NHRA Funny Car World Champion
Don Schumacher Racing driver Ron Capps was crowned the 2021 NHRA Camping World Series Funny Car champion on Sunday during the NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. Capps, pilot of the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, clinched his second Funny Car title to…
Elliott, NAPA Team Conclude Season with Top-Five Finish at Phoenix
Chase Elliott led 94 laps before finishing fifth at Phoenix Raceway in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season finale. With the result, the driver of the No. 9 NAPA AUTO PARTS Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE ended the season fourth in the overall standings. Elliott and the NAPA AUTO PARTS team…
Jesse Love Wins Back-to-Back ARCA West Titles with NAPA AUTO PARTS
Sixteen-year-old Jesse Love won his second consecutive ARCA Menards Series West championship driving the Bill McAnally Racing No. 16 NAPA AUTO PARTS Toyota Camry at Phoenix Raceway on Saturday afternoon. The Arizona Lottery 100 featured the tightest title battle in the history of the series. Love went into the final…
Kraus & MHR Wrap Up 2021 Trucks Season with Top-15 Finish
Derek Kraus drove the McAnally-Hilgemann Racing No. 19 NAPA AutoCare Toyota Tundra to a 15th-place finish at Phoenix Raceway during Friday night’s season finale for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The 20-year-old from Stratford, Wisc., battled within the top ten for much of the Lucas Oil 150. Kraus earned…
Sweet Effectively Clinches Third-Straight Title Heading into Charlotte
The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series ventured south for a Halloween weekend doubleheader at Lawton Speedway in Oklahoma on Friday, October 29 and Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, Texas, on Saturday, October 30. At Lawton Speedway on Friday, the NAPA AUTO PARTS No. 49 was the…
Elliott Advances to Championship 4 at Phoenix
Chase Elliott led a race-high 289 laps on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway and secured his spot in the Championship 4 race for the second consecutive season. On Sunday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway, Elliott lined up second for the Round of 8 finale. He dropped to third until he was able…
Capps Races to Runner-Up Finish in Vegas, Widens Championship Points Lead
Ron Capps is chasing his second Funny Car world championship and Don Schumacher Racing’s 19th series title, and by powering to a runner-up finish at the Dodge//SRT NHRA Nationals Presented by Pennzoil, Capps extended his lead to 58 points over his No. 2 ranked teammate, Matt Hagan, departing the penultimate…
Sweet Snags Sixth-Place Finish at Lakeside
The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series competed at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, for the FVP Platinum Battery Showdown on Friday, October 22nd. Sweet showed significant speed from the beginning of the evening by setting fourth-quick time in qualifying and earned the pole position for…
Elliott, NAPA Team Collect Runner-Up Finish at Kansas
Chase Elliott and the NAPA AUTO PARTS team led 42 laps en route to a second-place finish at Kansas Speedway on Sunday. The runner-up result is Elliott’s ninth top-two finish of the season. He sits second in the playoff standings, 34 points above the cutline, with two races remaining in…