After an extended off-season, the 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season is set to kick off next weekend with the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., March 12-14, and all of us at Don Schumacher Racing are eager to get back to the track! Prior to the season-opener, our nitro teams will attend the PRO Winter Warmup test session at Palm Beach International Raceway, this weekend March 5-8.
The 2021 Don Schumacher Racing roster will consist of four nitro entries, and two sportsman cars. Antron Brown and Leah Pruett will pilot DSR’s two Top Fuel dragsters, while Ron Capps and reigning NHRA Funny Car world champion Matt Hagan will make up DSR’s two-car Funny Car tandem. As has been tradition for the past three years, Pruett will once again pull double-duty, competing in the full eight-race Factory Stock Showdown Series schedule in addition to her responsibilities behind the wheel of her Top Fueler. Mark Pawuk rounds out DSR’s Factory Stock duo following a career-best finish in 2020.
Coming off of a strong championship-winning season in Funny Car, having won the final two Top Fuel races of 2020, and with the debut of the new 2021 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, drag racing’s winningest organization is in prime position to contend for three championships in 2021. Capps enters the season-opener in Gainesville as the defending Funny Car event champion as he and Hagan vie to keep DSR’s undefeated streak of 14 consecutive Funny Car victories alive.
DSR pre-race reports will be distributed via email on Wednesday of each race week, beginning with the Gainesville pre-race report on March 10th. Qualifying recaps will be sent at the end of each qualifying day, and a post-race recap will be sent following the conclusion of each event’s elimination rounds.
Please let me know if you have any questions, or if anyone from your organization would like to be added to our team’s distribution list. The link to download the Don Schumacher Racing 2021 pre-season Media Guide is below:
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