{"id":955,"date":"2007-08-29T06:32:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2007-08-29T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T13:32:24","slug":"ron-capps-powerade-funny-car-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Ron Capps Powerade Funny Car Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bahn3.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bahn3.jpg','popup','width=812,height=205,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\/08\/bahn3-tm.jpg\" height=\"108\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bahn3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\/stats\/points.asp\" target=\"_blank\">2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car<\/a><\/strong> points standings Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brutracing.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Capps<\/a><\/strong> is on top, but apparently all that goes away as the season winds down to the <strong>Countdown to Four<\/strong> this weekend at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillyracewaypark.com\/apcm\/templates\/racedivisions.asp?articleid=23542&amp;zoneid=95\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Tools US Nationals at O&#8217;Reilly Raceway Park<\/a><\/strong> in Indianapolis, Indiana. The good news is he has a secret weapon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s crew chief Ed McCulloch, who has won more U.S. Nationals Funny Car titles than any other driver. McCulloch had claimed five Funny Car victories (1971, &#8217;72, &#8217;80, &#8217;88, &#8217;90) and one Top Fuel win (1992) at this prestigious event before he retired as a driver at the end of 1993. Both Capps and McCulloch have competed in seven Showdown bonus events. This weekend will mark Capps&#8217; eighth appearance in the Showdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To keep up with Ron check out his blog at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brutracing.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brut Racing<\/a><\/strong>, or watch the U.S. Nationals on <strong>ESPN 2<\/strong> on Sunday August 2, at 8:30 AM <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2007\/08\/28\/060063.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Auto Channel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2007 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car points standings Carlsbad&#8217;s Ron Capps is on top, but apparently all that goes away as the season winds down to the Countdown to Four this weekend at the Mac Tools US Nationals at O&#8217;Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. The good news is he has [&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\/955"}],"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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}