Six-race NHRA Countdown to the Championship kicks off this weekend at Maple Grove.
Top-seeded Ron Capps aware that his 24-point lead over closest NHRA Funny Car challenger Matt Hagan isn’t secure.Toyota Supra driver is also all for an “unplug/throwback” weekend.
As he eyed Friday’s start of the six-race playoff at Maple Grove Raceway, near Reading, Pa., Capps said, “You could have not a bad race but you could have an ‘okay’ race and drop three or four spots .” However, Capps has been ambushed, as well. In the inaugural Countdown, in 2007, he won the so-called regular season but yielded the championship to No. 3-ranked Tony Pedregon, despite winning twice in three Countdown finals and winning one-third of the year’s Funny Car trophies . Five years later, Capps led the Funny Car field into the Countdown and lost out toafter topping the leaderboard for the first three playoff events.
He isn’t likely to rest on his accomplishments, which include winning back-to-back championships and scoring back-to-back victories to end the regular season .
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