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The six-race playoff known as the NHRA Countdown to the Championship officially begins today and all five of the Don Schumacher Team Mopar drivers are in the hunt – including the four Dodge Charger drivers in the funny car class and Leah Pritchett in the Top Fuel class. This means that all five...

This past weekend was a good one for Don Schumacher Racing and Team Mopar, as Ron Capps drove his Dodge Charger Hellcat to victory in the Funny Car class while Leah Pritchett got her first win of the season in Top Fuel. More importantly, with the win at the Lucas Oil Nationals in Minnesota, Leah...

Tommy Johnson Jr. grabbed the last Funny Car Wally of the 2017 Mello Yello NHRA season with a victory over Robert Hight. This is Johnson's second win of the season; the first was in early April in Las Vegas. He was the runner-up at four events. Johnson's victory bumped him up a spot to finish...

Matt Hagan picked up his fourth Funny Car Wally of the 2017 Mello Yello drag racing season this afternoon. Hagan got a faster start in his race with Courtney Force and posted an ET of 3.942 seconds at 329.42 mph, 0.078 seconds quicker and 9.37 mph faster, giving Dodge its 15th win of the season...

With two events left in the 2017 Mello Yello drag racing season, Dodge Funny Car driver Ron Capps still has a narrow, 24-point lead over Robert Hight in the championship standings. Both drivers made it to the final round of the NHRA FallNationals that wound up this afternoon at the Texas...

Defending world champion Ron Capps collected his fifth Funny Car Wally of the season and the 55th of his career. Capps got a holeshot win over his Don Schumacher Racing teammate Jack Beckman in an all-Dodge final round at the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee. For the first...

"Fast Jack" Beckman came into the NHRA Summernationals as the only Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) driver that had not yet collected a Funny Car Wally. With today's win in Englishtown, New Jersey, Beckman has completed the set: All four DSR/Mopar teams have wins and Dodge has taken nine of the ten...

Leah Pritchett scored her third Top Fuel Wally of the 2017 NHRA Mello Yello drag racing season and Ron Capps pulled in the season's fourth Funny Car win for Dodge. The two Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) drivers were the winners in the NHRA SpringNationals at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas...

Allen Johnson is the fourth Pro Stock driver, and the first Dodge Dart driver, to clinch a berth in the 2013 NHRA Countdown to the Championship,  a six-event series that will determine the World Championship. His third-place qualifying run put him in his (and Dodge’s) best position in the 2016...

Ron Capps and the NAPA Dodge Charger will be on the sidelines for tomorrow's Funny Car eliminations at the NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas. Capps struggled through qualifying, but could never get a good run in. Engine and traction troubles dogged him through every session. This is the first time...