Capps leaves DSR

Just seen on Ron’s Facebook page he is leaving DSR after 17 yrs good luck with your new adventure Ron always a class act

Everyone left DSR

What the hell happened ?

X 99 ! .... and I’ll bet NAPA stays with RC

Tony Stewart (Leah Pruetts current boy friend) started a new drag racing team for 2022 with her driving the top fuel dragster, maybe he will drive a car also
So did what his name(CRS ), the Man Of Color, the little short lightweight good driver, that drove the faster top fuel dragster.
He started his own team for next year also which tells me that Tony Schumaker maybe driving one of his fathers fuel cars again next year

To the ole with CRS ! .... Antron Brown !

Part of the equation is that Tony is back in the seat for 2022. Tony 2022 back in TF

and....More Dirt.....

Unless TSR has some OVERLY GENEROUS major sponsors ...., he’s gonna have to DIG DEEP into his net worth of 90 mill

According to this, Tony is the only car left. Don has had some health issues the last few years.

https://www.dragzine.com/news/ron-capps-announces-exit-from-don-schumacher-racing/

Don's no spring chicken. Tony isn't that young anymore either.

rumor has it that he's going to JFR.



Joe

Maybe...

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/capps-reveals-his-departure-from-dsr

These guys breaking away from the mega teams and forming their own teams is a good thing. Too much power in the hands of a few is never good.

DSR, AJRE and JFR will continue to provide parts to most everyone. So they're still making money. The Don is not going to have to collect Social Security any time soon.

By all accounts, AB and RC are great guys.

Some rule adjustments to lower the costs would be a big help to all concerned. Sponsor money is still hard to come by.

The business model that the Torrence/CAPCO team uses - buying the parts & having a very sharp crew - has proven itself.
Shumacher's daughter is set up to take over DSR, so there could be something there that's inspiring the exodus.
Whether that's the daughter's vibe, or DSR scaling back, remains to be seen.
Personally, if Capps goes to JFR I'll be disappointed - I like the rise of the smaller teams and think it's better for the sport.

It doesn't sound like a bad deal for DSR. Manufacturing and supplying parts to various teams, without the headache of having to finance and run a multi car team.

He also makes a ton of money renting shop space to other teams in Brownsburg.

I hope not! I've been a fan of Capps for years but if he goes to JFR that'll end.

Why?
John Force is one of the true success stories of a grass root racer becoming very successful through dedication and hard work.
He was born and raise in a large family in SO CA in a trailer park, the only thing he has gotten for free is a hard time, just like me
He became a truck driver out of high school and wanted to drag race and managed to do that by trying to and doing it on his own
I remember passing his broke down 1965 Chevy one ton flatbed open car hauler with one of his original funny cars on the back on Interstate10 between Ehrenburg, AZ and Phoenix, AZ. there were several cars already stop so we drove on by to the NHRA divisional race we were going to at the old Beeline Drag strip east of Phoenix.
We learn later that weekend that his brother and two of the volunteer crew were taking the car to Tuscon, AZ for a booked in match race
Give the man his due

Force went from truck driver to team diver….

You .. have a pretty good mammory for an old that CRS !

I'm not sure what you mean on this statement
I do remember him taking a dive to insure that one of his younger less experience team mates won a round and in Tony Pedegron(SP?) case he made sure he won the world Championship by making sure Tony went to the finals in Las Vegas to keep him in the running for that Championship. I call that taking care of business instead of making sure you beat your younger employees
I got to thinking after making that earlier post about the early days of racing and my luck in being able to see a lot of drag racing history being made while being raised and being able to race in SO CA back in the early 1960s to the late 1980s.
John Force did exactly the same thing as Don Purdhome(SP?), Tom Mc Ewen, Dick Landy and a lot of other SO CA racers did, they promoted themselves into becoming very successful professional drag racers by working hard and never giving up
I have truly been blessed in my life on a lot of things, those drag racing experiences being just one
Good night, be safe

Yes and he has done a lot for the sport and I respect what he's achieved, but I just don't like him. I don't like his mouth and attitude that he can do anything in the class because he's John Force and everybody else should lay down and lick'em. Kinda like Warren Johnson.

I would like to believe the JFR rumor but reading Matt Hagen's Instagram post the other day strongly suggests they will be teammates so that would be possibly another TSR FC added already or who knows maybe he will drive a second TF car next to Leah? Remember when Capps drove TF for Roger Primm?

Will TS keep LP in a car if she continues her bad luck ?