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Capps, NAPA Start Celebration for 50 Years of Funny Cars with Win at Winternationals, Start Mello Yello Season on Fox Ron Capps celebrates his Winternationals victory with his NAPA team and family: from left, dad John, wife Shelley, son Caden and mom Betty. Capps, NAPA start celebration for 50 years of Funny Cars with win at Winternationals, start Mello Yello season on Fox Last Sunday was Valentine’s Day but the season-opening NHRA Circle K Winternationals in Pomona, Calif., didn’t show much love to Don Schumacher Racing. That is, unless you are Ron Capps and the NAPA AUTO PARTS team led by crew chief Rahn Tobler and assistant Eric Lane who opened the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season by winning the Funny Car title to begin a special year that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Funny Car. Their 2016 Dodge Charger R/T was the only one of seven DSR entries to advance past the second round of Mello Yello eliminations and they went all the way. Capps and the NAPA team were dominant all weekend during the first of 24 national events with seven of their eight runs in the 3- second range including all four in qualifying that helped the team earn the No. 2 spot. “I have the best team in the business, and they gave me a great racecar,” he said. “All four runs in the 3s in qualifying, I don’t think anyone else did that. I knew we had a good racecar. Tobler and I have grown so much together. It’s like a marriage. He really keeps me in line on race day. We had a heckuva day.” And it was a banner weekend for NAPA Racing. Chase Elliott, who is Jeff Gordon’s replacement in the No. 24 NASCAR Cup stock car with major NAPA AUTO PARTS sponsorship, won the pole for this weekend’s Daytona 500. Capps is the second all-time winningest Funny Car driver and increased his win total to 45 (46 including another in Top Fuel), and improved on last year’s performance at Pomona when he was runner-up to DSR teammate Matt Hagan. The win is Capps’ third at Pomona with all coming in the Winternationals. DSR Funny Cars swept the Winternationals with Jack Beckman and the Infinite Hero team led by crew chief Jimmy Prock earning the No. 1 qualifying position on Saturday night with a time of 3.888 seconds. “We tested great in Phoenix, but bent the frame of our primary race car,” Beckman said preseason testing when his Dodge clocked three runs in the 3.8 range. Jack Beckman and the Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R/T earn the “The car we ran at Pomona only pole Saturday with a time of 3.888 seconds. made it to the finish line twice in qualifying and both of those runs were low E.T. of the sessions. It’s clear that my crew chiefs Jimmy Prock, John Medlen and Chris Cunningham are getting a handle on this car.” The driver of the Terry Chandler-sponsored Infinite Hero Funny Car did feel some pressure coming into the event. It wasn’t because of last year’s Winternationals DNQ or coming so close to the championship by finishing second at the end of the season. “As we get more runs on this brand new car, my guys will zero in on what it wants under different track conditions. I’m so optimistic,” Beckman said. “We’ll do a lot of Monday testing early in the season, so that when it gets to summertime we know how to run on cool and hot tracks.” Beckman went on to add, “Last year we left this event in 18th place and we’re 5th right now. That is a pretty good improvement.” Capps, Beckman and reigning Top Fuel champ Antron Brown were the only drivers to advance to the second round and Capps was the only one to get any further. It was especially surprising that Tommy Johnson Jr. and the Make-A-Wish Funny Car struggled in qualifying and then lost in the first round despite one week earlier running what is the unofficial quickest run ever in a Funny Car when their Dodge Charger R/T clocked a 3.874-second pass during testing at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park near Phoenix. And Tony Schumacher’s U.S. Army Top Fuel team also made an early exit at Pomona although its time of 3.683 at the Wild Horse test session was the quickest of the week and the best ever for the team. Fox scores big numbers with first Mello Yello telecast NHRA’s new broadcast partner, Fox and FS1, showed how good this year can be with innovation, live coverage and other major changes including new analyst Tony Pedregon by reaching more viewers than a year ago especially in the strong 18- to 49-year-old audience. Sunday’s three-hour championship eliminations reached 640,000 viewers, which is a 5 percent gain over the previous Winternationals despite being on a new network. The increase in the 18-49 demographic grew by an astounding 25 percent. And for the first time, the show was re-aired twice and accounted for another 500,000 viewers for a weekend total of over 1 million, based on information from SportsTVRatings.com. DSR’s Ron Capps will go down in NHRA history as the first Funny Car driver to be interviewed on live TV for winning the Winternationals, which is the first of 13 races that will air live on FS1 with four more being shown on the main Fox network. “It’s just so much excitement,” he said of NHRA’s new media partner. “If you talk to anyone, no matter what racing class it was, if you talk to anybody, there is just so much excitement about a change Ron Capps is interviewed by like this in our sport. It’s big, and (Fox) lived up to it. It’s great.” Jamie Little on FS1 during the Follow Fox Sports on Twitter at #NHRAonFOX and @FS1, Supercross season-opener on and Facebook at facebook.com/foxsports Jan. 6 at Anaheim, Calif. Legendary American WWII, Tuskegee Airmen pilot visits DSR Tony Schumacher and DSR’s U.S. Army team had an extraordinary guest Saturday when they were host to Lt. Col. (ret.) Robert J. Friend, one of the few remaining pilots in the groundbreaking WWII fighting squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen – nicknamed the Red Tails. Friend was one of the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces when the Tony Schumacher, left, and Antron Brown, right, visit Saturday with Lt. American military Col. (ret.) Robert J. Friend, a pilot in WWII with the Tuskegee Airmen Red Tails squadron. was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government and country. The 95-year-old Southern California resident flew 142 missions and retired in 1972 after 30 years of service. Top Fuel legend Jeb Allen joins Chandler, DSR to make wishes Top Fuel drag racing legend Jeb Allen and Funny Car pioneer Don Schumacher were reunited Saturday when they joined Terry Chandler to announce a unique program to grant wishes of children with life- threatening illnesses. Allen, the 1981 NHRA Top Fuel world champion, is committing $100,000 to grant 10 wishes through Terry Chandler’s Make-A-Wish Bob Frey speaks with former Top Fuel world champion Jeb Allen who committed Saturday to contribute $100,000 to help Make-A- Funny Car program with Don Wish provide 10 ‘wishes’ at NHRA events through Terry Schumacher Racing around 10 Chandler's Funny Car program with DSR. From left: Frey, Allen, NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Make-A-Wish Northern California CEO Jennifer Stolo, Don Series events this year. Schumacher, Chandler and Tommy Johnson Jr. “Don Schumacher said to me one day if there’s ever anything you can do for one of Terry’s ‘charity cars’ you should do something,” said Allen, 62, whose Palomar Builders has funded 20 wishes for a total of $200,000 to Make-A-Wish of Northern California. Since retiring from professional drag racing, Allen, the youngest ever to win an NHRA national event Wally trophy at 18, began working in construction where he learned to build homes, and with his wife, Sue Tsai, have built their Palomar Builders into one of the largest in Northern California and biggest in Redding, Calif. When Allen won his first title in the Summernationals at Englishtown, N.J., Schumacher joined him in the winner’s circle after winning his third of five NHRA Funny Car titles. Medal of Honor recipient unveils 2016 Infinite Hero challenge coin The Infinite Hero Foundation “challenge coin” fund-raising program with the Terry Chandler- sponsored NHRA Funny Car team and Don Schumacher Medal of Honor recipient Donald Everett 'Doc' Ballard, right, joins Terry Chandler Racing driver Jack and Jack Beckman to unveil the 2016 Infinite Hero Challenge Coin. Beckman unveiled its 2016 coin Friday at Pomona with a special guest in attendance. Donald Everett "Doc" Ballard, 70, a former member of the United States Navy, was a hospital corpsman during the Vietnam War and received the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life and beyond the call of duty” in May 1970. The retired American colonel in the Kansas National Guard received the first 2016 Infinite Hero coin that was designed by Beckman and his wife, Jenna. Beckman, who led NHRA Funny Cars with seven event titles last year, carries coins on each run then autographs them for NHRA fans who donate $100 to Infinite Hero (InfiniteHero.org).
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