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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 3second 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
like this in our sport. It’s big, and (Fox) lived up to it. It’s great.”
Ron Capps is interviewed by
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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
Tony Schumacher, left, and Antron Brown, right, visit Saturday with Lt.
Armed Forces when the
Col. (ret.) Robert J. Friend, a pilot in WWII with the Tuskegee Airmen Red
American military
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 lifethreatening illnesses.
Allen, the 1981 NHRA Top Fuel
world champion, is committing
$100,000 to grant 10 wishes through
Bob Frey speaks with former Top Fuel world champion Jeb Allen
Terry Chandler’s Make-A-Wish
who committed Saturday to contribute $100,000 to help Make-AFunny 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 Chandlersponsored 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).
On his first qualifying run of the season
Friday, he carried one in each pocket of his
firesuit and presented one to Ballard and the
other to NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series
announcer Alan Reinhart, who has played a
key role in the success of the Infinite Hero
challenge coin program that has raised more
than $300,000 through NHRA over the past
two years.
Chandler was honored during the Nov. 16
NHRA Awards Banquet in Hollywood as the
first recipient in 11 years of the Blaine Johnson
Award for her outstanding commitment and
dedication to the sport of NHRA Drag Racing.
New look for Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster
Antron Brown’s Matco Tools/U.S. Army has a new look for 2016. The new
design by DSR art director Aaron Holland was unveiled Sunday evening
during Matco’s National Business Conference. It carries the names of more
than 1,600 Matco distributors.
DSR firing on all cylinders with marketing partner E3 spark plugs
E3 Spark Plugs and Don Schumacher Racing are excited to
announce a multi-year sponsorship beginning with the 2016 NHRA Mello
Yello Drag Racing Series season. The 14-time championship winning
DSR organization began using E3’s 100R racing plug in their stable of
seven cars this season including the season-opening 56th annual Circle
K NHRA Winternationals at Pomona.
DSR tested the plug extensively before signing with the Florida-based
company.
“Spark plugs play such an integral part in powering these machines
and after our crew chiefs tested E3 spark plugs last month in Florida they agreed we should start using
them,” said DSR owner Don Schumacher, a pioneering Funny Car driver/owner beginning in the mid1960s who won the first five NHRA Wally Trophies in DSR’s collection of 267.
“We only use the best products in our four Funny Cars and three Top Fuel dragsters, and these E3
100R spark plugs are helping us make more horsepower. I’ve been very impressed with the new E3
100R and the commitment the company has made to our sport.”
E3 Spark Plugs has been the Official Spark Plug of NHRA since 2012. The new program with
Schumacher’s teams is not only an extension of this association but yet another indication of E3’s
commitment to NHRA drag racing.
Backed by a five-year, 100,000-mile warranty, E3 spark plugs, with their DiamondFIRE side-wire
electrode, project the combustion spark in a way that more quickly ignites the air/fuel mixture, thereby
creating a significantly faster and larger flame kernel. In effect, this burns more of the available fuel,
resulting in increased combustion efficiency for improved power and fuel economy with reduced
emissions. E3 spark plugs are available for most automotive, small-engine, and power-sports
applications at automotive and home-improvement retail stores nationwide.
For more information on E3 log on to www.e3sparkplugs.com.
Brown, Matco champs again;
Beckman, Infinite Hero Dodge
get oh so close; Langdon, Red Fuel
close ’15 with Finals event title
Don Schumacher Racing achievements in 2015:
OVERALL
A DSR record 27 event titles including 15 in Funny Car and 12 in
Top Fuel;
In the final Mello Yello standings, DSR drivers Ranked 1-2-6 in
Top Fuel and 2-3-4-5 in Funny Car;
Each of the seven DSR teams earned No. 1 qualifying positions
for a total of 25;
Swept both nitro event titles at 7 races;
Drivers Antron Brown, Jack Beckman, Matt Hagan and Ron
Capps held an NHRA national record at some point;
DSR swept the Traxxas Nitro Shootouts with the Matco Tools
team winning Top Fuel and Infinite Hero winning Funny Car over
Labor Day Weekend at Indy.
TOP FUEL
Antron and the Matco Tools/U.S. Army team led by crew chiefs
Brian Corradi and Mark Oswald clinched their second Top Fuel world
championship in four years and DSR’s 14th before arriving at Pomona
for the finale;
Antron won a career-best 7 titles to pad his nitro-leading total of 36 over the past seven seasons;
Won 12 of possible 24 Mello Yello event titles;
Antron and the Matco team became the first in Top Fuel to crack into the 3.6-second range with a time of 3.680
seconds in August at Brainerd, Minn., that remains the national record.
FUNNY CAR
Jack had career-bests of seven Mello Yello event titles and five No. 1 qualifying positions with the Infinite Hero
Dodge and reset the national time record five times this year including on Nov. 13 at Pomona with a run in 3.884
seconds;
DSR won 15 Funny Car titles with the all-new 2015 Dodge Charger R/T body;
The four DSR Dodge Charger R/T Funny Cars advanced to the championship round at 23 of 24 Mello Yello events;
Matt and the Mopar Express Lane/Rocky Boots Dodge Charger R/T team led by crew chief Dickie Venables
became the first Funny Car into the 3.8-second range with a time of 3.879 seconds at Brainerd that remains the
quickest ever;
Matt became the first to reach 330 mph in a Funny Car (Brainerd 2015);
DSR has 15 of the 20 quickest Funny Car times.
Don Schumacher Racing achievements at 2015 NHRA Finals in Pomona:
OVERALL
Reset both NHRA Funny Car world records: Jack (3.884) and Matt
(331.45);
Ron and the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge with crew chief Rahn Tobler
produced a time of 3.885 that is his quickest
ever and briefly held the
NHRA time record.
TOP FUEL
Antron wrapped up a record year advancing to the finals for the 10th time.
Shawn Langdon completed his six-race stay with DSR by winning the
Pomona title and produced the top speed of the meet for Top Fuel was by
Langdon at a track-record 332.43 mph on his championship run;
FUNNY CAR
Matt had the event’s only Funny Car 330-mph runs (331.45 and 330.15);
Ron earned his first No. 1 qualifier spot with a career-best time of 3.885, the fourth quickest ever;
T.J. also posted his best lap at 3.891, the seventh quickest ever.
DSR SPOTLIGHT
Jr. Drag racer graduates
to DSR intern at Pomona
By DALLAS HOLLINS
I grew up five minutes from Auto Club Speedway in Fontana,
Calif. The sound of stock cars going around the oval and dragsters
headed down the drag strip was always an open window away on
the weekends. Despite coming from a family of athletes, no one
was involved in motorsports as a participant or even as a fan.
Given that we lived so close to the track that was once known
as California Speedway, my mother took me to my first race when
I was 4 for the NASCAR NAPA AUTO PARTS 500 in 2001. Even
though I didn’t have a grasp on how the sport truly worked, I liked
seeing the cars go around the track, hearing the noise and the
overall excitement the race brought. But like most typical 4-year-old girls I spent my days going to
kindergarten and taking ballet classes. Racing had not crossed my mind.
As fate would have it in March 2003, the Disney Channel premiered a movie that would change my
life. “Right On Track” told the story of real-life sisters, Erica and Courtney Enders, two young girls who
started racing NHRA Jr. dragsters when they were about 8. What fascinated me was, not only were they
girls, but they were close to my age. I knew right then and there that I wanted to drive racecars.
I watched that movie so much that my parents started to get sick of it. My father soon realized that
racing wasn’t just a passing fancy.
At my first drag race, the 2007 NHRA Finals at nearby Pomona, I learned that drag racing was much
faster and much louder than Disney had portrayed. The sights, sounds, getting to view the cars up close,
meeting the drivers; I had been bitten by the racing bug. My parents and I continued to enjoy the NHRA
circuit the following years going to both Pomona NHRA events, the Las Vegas events and watching the
rest on TV.
But to no avail, I still wasn’t racing myself.
Shortly before the 2009 SummitRacing.com Nationals in Las Vegas, I came up with the idea of
interviewing some of my favorite racecar drivers as a way to find out more about the sport and the
drivers. I started my own website, InsidePitRow.com, got my interview questions prepared and headed to
Vegas. I interviewed all of the drivers from Don Schumacher Racing but my first interview that weekend
was none other than my hero, Erica Enders. Not only did she grant me the opportunity to do the
interview, she treated me like a friend. At the time of that race, I had been begging and pleading with my
parents to buy me a jr. dragster for six years. Over the course of the race weekend Erica somehow
managed to convince my dad to finally buy me one.
I started my first season in the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League in April of 2010 and raced all over
California with my dad as my crew chief and my mom as my cheerleader. I spent most of my weekends
at racetracks. If I wasn't racing, I was there interviewing professional drivers. I never felt as though I was
missing out on what normal kids my age were up to because I was doing what I loved. I spent five
amazing years racing and over my career that spanned 19 races, I accumulated three wins (one of which
provided me with a Wally trophy), a runner-up and three semifinal appearances. Shortly after graduating
from high school, I turned 18 and was too old.
After publishing over 20 video interviews with NHRA, IndyCar, and Sports Car drivers on my website,
I started writing for nationally published magazines like Variety and Goracing. I started college this week
and will major in communications with hopes of racing in the NHRA Division 7 Sportsman ranks.
Last month I reached out to my good friend and Don Schumacher Racing Senior Vice President, Mike
Lewis, to see if I could get my first real-world experience in public relations during the Winternationals
weekend.
Fortunately, he granted me the opportunity to intern for DSR social media manager, Leah Vaughn. I
learned 10-times more than I imagined. The incredible people I was able to work with and the knowledge
I gained about public relations and the inner-workings of a race team is incredibly valuable.
I will be able to carry all that I learned over the weekend into college and hopefully into my future
career in the NHRA.
Whether it's in PR or in the cockpit of a dragster, I know I've found my home, racing.
Addition of Langdon to Red Fuel/Sandvik Coromant team
for 2016 gives DSR world champs in three Top Fuel dragsters
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (Dec. 8, 2015) – Shawn Langdon has been hired to drive full time in 2016 for
Don Schumacher Racing
in the 2016 NHRA Mello
Yello Drag Racing Series,
and that puts a world
champion in the cockpit of
all three DSR dragsters.
Langdon joins
teammates Tony
Schumacher and Antron
Brown in the DSR lineup,
a trio that has combined to
win the last four NHRA
Top Fuel world
championships; Brown
(2012 and 2015), Langdon (2013) and Schumacher (2014).
Langdon, 33, competed for DSR during the six-race 2015 Countdown to the Championship playoff on
loan from Alan Johnson Racing after that team suspended its operation at the end of the 16-race regular
season due to a lack of sponsorship.
Langdon joined DSR’s Sandvik Coromant/Red Fuel Powered by Schumacher team with crew chiefs
Todd Okuhara and Phil Shuler and closed the season by winning the NHRA Finals title at Pomona,
Calif., for his first win with DSR and the second of the year for the Red Fuel team that ended the year
ranked sixth and just one point out of fifth.
“After Pomona (last November), Alan and I sat down and discussed 2016 and beyond,” said
Langdon, a native of Mira Loma, Calif., who lives in Avon near Indianapolis. “Alan and I decided it was in
both of our best interests to go our separate ways. That was tough. I had a great three years with Alan,
Alan Johnson Racing and being part of the Johnson family. I’ll have special memories for the rest of my
life.”
A new chapter opens at DSR as Langdon will become the seventh driver to compete in Top Fuel for
the seven-team organization since its inception in 1998.
AutoImagery.com photos of the race
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Contact AutoImagery.com
DSR drivers 2016: career statistics, standings (post Pomona 1)
ANTRON BROWN: Matco Tools/U.S. Army *2015 WORLD CHAMPION
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup Semi
Qtr 1st rd Poles DNQ
W/L
2016
7th
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1-1
2015
1st
24
7
3
6
3
5
7
0
51-17
CAREER
335
54 (38 TF/16 PSB)
43
69
87
78
44
3 569-278
Best Time, Speed: 3.680 sec.-national record, first 3.6 (2015, Brainerd); 331.12 mph (2015, Brainerd)
TONY SCHUMACHER: U.S. Army
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup Semi
Qtr 1st rd Poles DNQ
2016
9th
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
2015
2nd
24
3
4
4
7
6
3
0
CAREER
433
80
58
68
114
105
79
8
Best Time, Speed: 3.719 sec. (2015, Topeka); 330.55 mph (2014, Las Vegas 2)
W/L
0-1
39-21
742-345
SHAWN LANGDON: Red Fuel Powered by Schumacher/Sandvik Coromant
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup Semi
Qtr 1st rd Poles DNQ
W/L
2016
13th
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0-1
2015
6th
24 (first 18 with AJR)
2
1
4
8
9
2
27-22
CAREER
165
12
14
32
51
60
18
3 200-151
Langdon’s Best Time, Speed: 3.662 Sec. (quickest ever, 2015, Brainerd); 334.15 mph (both with Alan Johnson
Racing)
2015/TEAM
--24
2
0
4
7
12
1
0
Team’s best Time, Speed: 3.715 sec. (2015, Pomona 2); 332.75 mph (2015, Brainerd, Minn.)
22-22
DSR FUNNY CAR
JACK BECKMAN: Infinite Hero Dodge Charger R/T
2016
2015
CAREER
Pts
5th
2nd
Events
Wins
Rup
Semi
Qtr
1st rd Poles DNQ
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
24
7
2
4
5
5
5
1
229
22
22
41
64
73
16
7
Best Time, Speed: 3.884 sec.-national record (2015, Pomona 2); 328.38 (2015, Pomona 2)
W/L
1-1
46-16
298-200
TOMMY JOHNSON JR.: Make-A-Wish Dodge Charger R/T
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup
Semi
Qtr
1st rd Poles DNQ
2016
15th
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
2015
3rd
24
2
6
4
7
5
3
0
CAREER
371
12 (10 FC/2 TF)
21
49
87
158
13
47
Best Time, Speed: 3.891 sec. (2015, Pomona 2); 326.08 mph (2015, Pomona 2)
W/L
0-1
42-22
297-315
RON CAPPS: NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger R/T
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup
Semi
Qtr
1st rd Poles DNQ
2016
1st
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
2015
4th
24
2
3
6
5
8
1
0
CAREER
459
46 (45 FC/1 TF)
45
82
93
176
17
18
Best Time, Speed: 3.885 sec., (2015, Pomona 2); 327.19 mph (2015, St. Louis)
W/L
4-0
34-22
576-396
MATT HAGAN: Mopar Express Lane/Rocky Boots Dodge Charger R/T
Pts
Events
Wins
Rup
Semi Qtr
1st rd Poles DNQ
W/L
2016
10th
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0-1
2015
5th
24
4
2
2
10
6
4
0
36-20
CAREER
169
18
18
23
54
52
21
4 225-147
Best Time, Speed: 3.879 sec.-quickest ever (2015, Brainerd); 331.45 mph-nat’l record (’15, Pomona 2)
2016 NHRA MELLO YELLO STANDINGS – (through Pomona 1)
TOP FUEL PTS
1. Steve Torrence
126
2. Doug Kalitta
94
3. Richie Crampton
77
4. JR Todd
72
5. Clay Millican
57
6. Morgan Lucas
52
7. ANTRON BROWN 48
8. Terry McMillen
46
9. TONY SCHUMACHER 42
10. Brittany Force
37
12. SHAWN LANGDON
32
FUNNY CAR
PTS
1. RON CAPPS
119
2. Del Worsham
97
3. Robert Hight
80
4. John Force
69
5. JACK BECKMAN
65
6. Courtney Force
59
7. Alexis DeJoria
55
8. Chad Head
54
9. Tim Wilkerson
33
10. MATT HAGAN
32
13. TOMMY JOHNSON JR. 31
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series (NOTE: order of events only correct for 2016)
REGULAR SEASON 2013 WINNNERS
2014 WINNERS
1. 2/12-14 Pom 1
TF Langdon FC C.Force
TF alBalooshi FC J.Force
2. 2/26-28 Phoenix TF TONY
FC RON
TF ANTRON FC DeJoria
3. 3/18-20 G’ville
TF ANTRON* FC GRAY
TF Kalitta
FC Hight
*DSR’s 200th
4. 4/22-24 LV 1
TF TONY
FC C.PedregonTF TONY
FC DeJoria
5. 4/1-3 CLT
TF SPENCER FC MATT
TF ANTRON FC Hight
6. 4/29-5/1 Houston TF Vandergriff FC C.Pedregon TF ANTRON FC Hight
7. 5/13-15 Atlanta TF ANTRON FC GRAY
TF SPENCER FC Hight
8. 5/20-22 Topeka TF Langdon FC GRAY
TF SPENCER FC C.Force
2015 WINNERS
TF Langdon
TF TONY
TF SPENCER
TF Crampton
TF ANTRON
TF Kalitta
TF ANTRON
TF Crampton
FC MATT
FC MATT
FC RON
2016 WINNERS
TF Torrence
TF
TF
FC J.Force
FC JACK*
*DSR’s 100th FC
FC RON
FC Wilkerson
FC JACK*
FC RON
FC
FC
TF
TF
FC
FC
TF
TF
TF
FC
FC
FC
FC J.Force
FC MATT
TF
TF
FC
FC
FC MATT
FC JACK
FC TOMMY
FC JACK
FC JACK*
TF
TF
TF
TF
TF
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
*DSR’s 250th
9. 6/3-5
Epping
10. 6/10-12 E’town
TF SPENCER FC C.Force
TF Langdon FC MATT
TF TONY
TF Crampton
11. 6/17-19
12. 6/24-26
13. 7/8-10
14. 7/2-24
15. 7/29-30
TF S.Torrence FC J.Force
TF Langdon
TF alBalloshi FC GRAY
TF ANTRON
TF TONY
FC MATT
TF ANTRON
TF SPENCER FC C.Pedregon TF Todd
TF Langdon FC RON
TF alBalooshi
FC RON
TF TONY
FC C.Pedregon TF ANTRON*
*AB’s 50th
Bristol
Norwalk
Chicago
Denver
Sonoma
FC TOMMY
FC J. Force
FC MATT
FC Hight
FC C.Force
TF Crampton
TF Kalitta
TF TONY
TF Torrence
TF ANTRON*
*DSR’S 50th Dble-up
16. 8/5-7
Seattle TF Lucas
FC MATT
TF Kalitta
FC J.Force
TF Todd
FC TOMMY TF
17. 8/19-21 Brainerd TF SPENCER FC RON
TF Lucas
FC RON (Indy) TF Crampton
FC Hight
TF
18. 9/2-5
Indy
TF Langdon FC Hight
TF Crampton FC DeJoria
TF Lucas
FC JACK
TF
Indy Traxxas
Traxxas FC/JACK
Traxxas TF/Antron Traxxas/FC JACK
COUNTDOWN
2013 DSR WINNERS
2014 WINNERS
2015 WINNERS
19. 9/16-18 CLT 2
TF Lucas
FC Hight
TF TONY
FC MATT
TF ANTRON
FC Worsham TF
20. 9/25-27 St. Louis TF ANTRON FC J.Force
TF ANTRON FC C.Force
TF ANTRON
FC Worsham TF
21. 9/31-10/2 Reading TF Langdon FC J.Force
TF TONY
FC MATT
TF ANTRON
FC JACK
TF
22. 10/14-16 Dallas TF Kalitta
FC C.Pedregon TF TONY
FC C. Force
TF Crampton
FC Worsham TF
23. 10/28-30 LV 2
TF ANTRON FC J.Force
TF SPENCER FC Worsham TF Kalitta
FC Hight
TF
24. 11/11-13 Pom 2 TF Langdon FC MATT
TF Lucas
FC MATT
TF SHAWN
FC Worsham TF
DSR TOTALS:
TF = 11
FC = 12
TF = 14
FC = 7
TF = 12
FC = 15
TF = 0
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC
FC = 1
DSR 2016 SEASON TOTALS
1 - Funny Car event titles (Ron 1)
DSR 2015 SEASON TOTALS
1 – World champion (Antron’s 2nd in Top Fuel)
12 - Top Fuel event titles (Antron 7, Tony 3, Shawn 1, Spencer 1)
15 - Funny Car event titles (Jack 7, Matt 4, Ron 2, Tommy 2)
DSR 2014 SEASON TOTALS
2 - World championships (Tony’s 8th in Top Fuel, Matt’s 2nd in Funny Car)
14 - Top Fuel event titles (Antron 6, Tony 5, Spencer 3)
7 - Funny Car event titles (Matt 4, Ron 2, Tommy 1, Jack 0)
DSR ALL-TIME TOTALS
14 - World championships (Tony 8, Matt 2, Antron 2, Jack Beckman 1, Gary Scelzi 1)
268 - NHRA Mello Yello event titles (Top Fuel 135, Funny Car 112, Pro Stock 3, Pro Stock Motorcycle 18)
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ABOUT DON SCHUMACHER RACING
Don Schumacher Racing, headquartered near Indianapolis in Brownsburg, Ind., fields seven professional NHRA
teams in the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. In Top Fuel, the U.S. Army dragster driven by eight-time world
champion Tony Schumacher, the 2012 and 2015 NHRA Top Fuel world champion Matco Tools/U.S. Army dragster
driven by Antron Brown and the Red Fuel/Sandvik Coromant dragster driven by 2013 world champion Shawn
Langdon; and in Funny Car, two-time world champion Matt Hagan in the Mopar Express Lane/Rocky Boots 2016
Dodge Charger R/T, 2012 NHRA world champion Jack Beckman in the Infinite Hero Foundation Dodge, the NAPA
AUTO PARTS Dodge of Ron Capps and the Make-A-Wish Dodge driven by Tommy Johnson Jr.
DSR has won 268 NHRA national event titles and 14 world championships.
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