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Ron Capps Drives His Dodge Charger to Win #1 on the Season

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2018 has been Ron Capps' worst season in the past few years, going winless through the first ten events, but he drove his Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger funny car to his first win of the season this past weekend at the Fitzgerald USA NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals.

This past weekend brought about the eleventh stop on the 2019 Mello Yello Drag Racing series and coming into this race, Ron Capps and his Dodge Charger funny car hadn't been to the winner's circle yet. By this point in 2015, Capps already had two wins. In 2016, he won four of the first eleven races and in 2017, he won half of the races by this point in the season, but coming into Bristol, Capps was winless on the season. He has run well enough to position himself in the 5th spot in the championship standings, but it is hard to win titles without winning races and for Capps, that road to the title took its first major step in Bristol.

Qualifying
Ron Capps and his fellow Dodge Charger racers from Don Schumacher Racing got off to a great start, with all four drivers turning in a top-seven run in the first round of qualifying, but it was Bob Tasca III in his Ford Mustang in the top spot.

In the second round, the Chevrolet Camaro teams all stepped up their game, climbing into the first and third spots while several Toyota teams also jumped up, pushing the Chargers back in the field. Unfortunately, things didn't change much after the second round, so while the DSR Dodge teams were all in the top seven early, they were forced to head into eliminations in seventh, eighth, ninth and eleventh. Ron Capps was the driver in eleventh, so he had a long road ahead of him in his quest for win #1.
 
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