{"id":984,"date":"2007-09-05T03:36:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2007-09-05T05:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T12:36:36","slug":"capps-loses-in-first-elimination-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Capps Loses In First Elimination Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/bahn3.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/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\/09\/bahn3-tm.jpg\" height=\"108\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bahn3\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast week we <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=955\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned<\/a><\/strong> that Carlsbad&#8217;s funny car drag racing champion <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brutracing.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Capps<\/a><\/strong> was on his way to 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. Well, things didn&#8217;t go as planned for Capps last weekened. He lost to <strong>Kenny Bernstein<\/strong> in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whowon.com\/Results.asp?TrackID=746&amp;StoryID=232089\" target=\"_blank\">first round<\/a><\/strong> of eliminations at the US Nationals on Monday. And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, he also lost the lead in the points race as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the end of the day, losing finalist Robert Hight had taken over the championship lead and Capps had fallen to fourth, with a 10-point lead turning into a 51-point deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they say in the business, &#8220;That&#8217;s racing.&#8221; Ron said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very had to put something like that behind you,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I wanted to throw up on the return road on the way back, just because of how good that run was, and after yesterday I felt so confident this morning that we were gong to have a great day. And we should have. The car ran great, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s disappointing for the team. I obviously didn&#8217;t pull my part of the rope. We&#8217;ll just have to regroup and go to Memphis.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070904\/SPORTS01\/709040378\/1052\" target=\"_blank\">The Indianapolis Star<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whowon.com\/Results.asp?TrackID=746&amp;StoryID=232089\" target=\"_blank\">Whowon.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we mentioned that Carlsbad&#8217;s funny car drag racing champion Ron Capps was on his way to the Mac Tools US Nationals at O&#8217;Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, Indiana. Well, things didn&#8217;t go as planned for Capps last weekened. He lost to Kenny Bernstein in the first round of eliminations at the US Nationals [&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":[22,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}