{"id":8481,"date":"2010-07-07T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2010-07-07T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:56:43","slug":"capps-looking-forward-to-northwest-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8481","title":{"rendered":"Capps Looking Forward To Northwest Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ron_capps.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ron_capps.jpg','popup','width=200,height=280,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\/2010\/07\/ron_capps-tm.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ron Capps\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> grand daddy of drag racers, <strong>Ron Capps<\/strong>, returns to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificraceways.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Raceways<\/a><\/strong> in Seattle, Washington for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\/events\/event\/nhra-northwest-nationals-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHRA Northwest Nationals<\/a><\/strong> and the site of his first professional NHRA win, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2010\/07\/06\/485954.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Auto Channel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since then, he has won 29 titles in the Funny Car class, including his 1998 triumph in Seattle. He was also runner-up at the NHRA Northwest Nationals in 2001, 2006 and 2008, and No. 1 qualifier in 1997. So, it&#8217;s safe to say that Seattle is a favorite venue for the California native who drives the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger Funny Car in the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch Ron this weekend on ESPN2 at 7 PM Saturday and 8:30 PM Sunday. Finals on ESPN3 Sunday at 4 PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2010\/07\/06\/485954.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Auto Channel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s grand daddy of drag racers, Ron Capps, returns to Pacific Raceways in Seattle, Washington for the NHRA Northwest Nationals and the site of his first professional NHRA win, according to a story on The Auto Channel. Since then, he has won 29 titles in the Funny Car class, including his 1998 triumph in Seattle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}