{"id":1117,"date":"2007-09-19T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2007-09-19T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T23:26:07","slug":"capps-ready-for-the-nhra-fall-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Capps Ready for the NHRA Fall Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/r-capps.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/r-capps.jpg','popup','width=120,height=160,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/r-capps-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"R Capps\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad&#8217;s drag racing extraordinaire <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brutracing.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Capps<\/a><\/strong> spoke to the media prior to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillyfallnationals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">22nd Annual O&#8217;Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals<\/a><\/strong> these weekend at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmotorplex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Motorplex<\/a><\/strong> and here&#8217;s a little what he had to say about a season in which he finds himself third in the funny car rankings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be honest, anybody who tells you they are not counting the points are lying to you. Strategy is so different [with the new playoff format]. You really can&#8217;t have any small mistakes, whether it&#8217;s the team, the driver, or the crew chief. You have to have some luck on your side because there&#8217;s going to be some things you&#8217;re going to have to overcome. And more than anything, you just have to be able to peak at the right time, and right now is the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link for the rest of the interview. And, to catch Ron&#8217;s runs check <strong>ESPN2<\/strong> on September 23 at 8 AM PST or September 30th at 9 AM. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\/content\/news\/24275.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NHRA.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s drag racing extraordinaire Ron Capps spoke to the media prior to the 22nd Annual O&#8217;Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals these weekend at the Texas Motorplex and here&#8217;s a little what he had to say about a season in which he finds himself third in the funny car rankings. To be honest, anybody who tells you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}