RON CAPPS
Driver of the NAPA Auto Care Funny Car
NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Event Highlights:
zMAX Dragway Overall Highlights:
2025 NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Recap:
Qualified seventh; Event runner-up (defeated Buddy Hull, Cruz Pedregon in E1, Hunter Green, J.R. Todd in E2, Matt Hagan, Alexis DeJoria in E3; defeated by Austin Prock in E3)
Last Event (Pomona):
Qualified second; Event runner-up (defeated Dylan Winefsky in E1, Alexis DeJoria in E2, Jordan Vandergriff in E3; defeated by Matt Hagan in E4)
2026 Statistics:
Three races; one win, one runner-up finish, one No. 1 qualifier
Career Statistics:
671 races; 78 wins, 38 No. 1 qualifiers
Noteworthy:
Fan Events:
Quotable:
“There seems to be a lot of buzz heading into the 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte this weekend. Obviously, everyone always hears me brag about our NAPA Auto Care team, and what we’ve shown throughout these first three races of the season with the performance, the consistency, and all the teamwork, has brought us great success. We had a No. 1 qualifier to kick the year off in Gainesville, and then of course a win in Phoenix in adverse conditions, and a runner-up finish in Pomona at our most recent race. So, we’re pumped to get to Charlotte and to the 4-Wides.
“Looking at the weather this weekend, it’s going to be fantastic; warm weather with a chance of clouds, and it could produce some of the quickest times we’ve seen all season. We’re lucky because we get to share our car with a lot of great NAPA partners, and anytime you have a sponsor like NAPA Auto Parts that allows you to represent one of the great vendors from the NAPA system, like NAPA Premium Brake Boosters, it’s a sense of pride. And then of course we also have Okuma on both cars, so we really want to put it in the winner’s circle this weekend. It all starts on Friday with qualifying under the lights later that night and we’re looking forward to it.”
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Driver of the NAPA Auto Care Funny Car
NHRA 4-Wide Nationals Event Highlights:
- 2017 event champion
- 2025 runner-up
- 2014 No. 1 qualifier
zMAX Dragway Overall Highlights:
- Four-time winner
- One No. 1 qualifier
2025 NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Recap:
Qualified seventh; Event runner-up (defeated Buddy Hull, Cruz Pedregon in E1, Hunter Green, J.R. Todd in E2, Matt Hagan, Alexis DeJoria in E3; defeated by Austin Prock in E3)
Last Event (Pomona):
Qualified second; Event runner-up (defeated Dylan Winefsky in E1, Alexis DeJoria in E2, Jordan Vandergriff in E3; defeated by Matt Hagan in E4)
2026 Statistics:
Three races; one win, one runner-up finish, one No. 1 qualifier
Career Statistics:
671 races; 78 wins, 38 No. 1 qualifiers
Noteworthy:
- Enters the season’s only four-wide style event tied for the Funny Car points lead after powering to a runner-up finish at the most recent event in Pomona, Calif.
- Capps also has a win (Phoenix) and No. 1 qualifier (Gainesville) through the first three races of the year
- A two-time winner while competing in the unique four-wide style of racing. In addition to his 2017 Charlotte event triumph, Capps also won the 2022 Las Vegas Four-Wide Nationals (victory No. 1 for RCM)
- It was recently announced that Capps will be inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America’s Class of 2027
Fan Events:
- Friday, 2 – 2:30 p.m., Mission #2Fast2Tasty driver autograph session, Mission Foods midway display
- Friday, 2:30 – 3 p.m., RCM driver autograph session, Carlyle Tools midway display
- Saturday, 10 – 10:30 a.m., RCM driver autograph session, Carlyle Tools midway display
Quotable:
“There seems to be a lot of buzz heading into the 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte this weekend. Obviously, everyone always hears me brag about our NAPA Auto Care team, and what we’ve shown throughout these first three races of the season with the performance, the consistency, and all the teamwork, has brought us great success. We had a No. 1 qualifier to kick the year off in Gainesville, and then of course a win in Phoenix in adverse conditions, and a runner-up finish in Pomona at our most recent race. So, we’re pumped to get to Charlotte and to the 4-Wides.
“Looking at the weather this weekend, it’s going to be fantastic; warm weather with a chance of clouds, and it could produce some of the quickest times we’ve seen all season. We’re lucky because we get to share our car with a lot of great NAPA partners, and anytime you have a sponsor like NAPA Auto Parts that allows you to represent one of the great vendors from the NAPA system, like NAPA Premium Brake Boosters, it’s a sense of pride. And then of course we also have Okuma on both cars, so we really want to put it in the winner’s circle this weekend. It all starts on Friday with qualifying under the lights later that night and we’re looking forward to it.”
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