Racers Unchained with Paul Tracy
Oct 5, 2026 · 45 min · 12 segments
Three-time NHRA Funny Car champion Ron Capps joins Racers Unchained for a wide-ranging conversation about his remarkable racing career, from growing up around drag racing on California’s Central Coast…
Ron CappsGuest
Paul TracyHost
but uh yeah yeah man it's fast it was a night run when we did 339 so yeah so what's the what's the biggest trap
i think uh britney force might have been the fastest i think 340 somebody went 345 i think maybe sean langdon in a coletta car but i believe yeah
And so it's even crazier that there's been a few drag strips that went 300 at half track.
And that was really the first time I'd ever been to an NHRA event and I was like, I couldn't believe it.
Like, like I've, I've been to Firebird and been over there testing on the other track and heard the cars running and literally over there, it would like kind of like vibrate the ground from, um, on the other side of the lake
and so it's pretty pretty incredible but i've never stood on the line until i went out there and i was like i couldn't even believe it like i was just like my wife was there and it literally it scared her so bad she didn't want to even be near it again and it is it is literally it's frightening yeah fast and how loud it is
I always loved having you guys out or other racers come out and stand for the first time, but even after for a while, cause I remember those days when I drove for snake and you guys would test over there when we were testing, like you said, and it was always cool to have you guys come over and stand in between your testing and, um, There's nothing like it.
And then the best is when you get them to come to a race and you've done the same thing with your race.
but uh yeah yeah man it's fast it was a night run when we did 339 so yeah so what's the what's the biggest trap
i think uh britney force might have been the fastest i think 340 somebody went 345 i think maybe sean langdon in a coletta car but i believe yeah
And so it's even crazier that there's been a few drag strips that went 300 at half track.
And that was really the first time I'd ever been to an NHRA event and I was like, I couldn't believe it.
Like, like I've, I've been to Firebird and been over there testing on the other track and heard the cars running and literally over there, it would like kind of like vibrate the ground from, um, on the other side of the lake
and so it's pretty pretty incredible but i've never stood on the line until i went out there and i was like i couldn't even believe it like i was just like my wife was there and it literally it scared her so bad she didn't want to even be near it again and it is it is literally it's frightening yeah fast and how loud it is
I always loved having you guys out or other racers come out and stand for the first time, but even after for a while, cause I remember those days when I drove for snake and you guys would test over there when we were testing, like you said, and it was always cool to have you guys come over and stand in between your testing and, um, There's nothing like it.
And then the best is when you get them to come to a race and you've done the same thing with your race.
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