Don Schumacher Racing
DSR Pre-Seattle Team Reports
– Every team intent on winning a season championship knows the key is peaking at the right time.
The Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster team and driver Antron Brown have the experience of winning last year’s NHRA world championship to fall back on, and despite not winning a Mello Yello Series title since May 12 near Atlanta, Brown likes the timetable crew chiefs Brian Corradi and Mark Oswald are following.
Capps Sonoma Funny Car Victory leads off DSR Race Report
Capps reacts quicker at line to beat John Force for Sonoma title; NAPA’s Capps, DSR teammate Massey moves up to 2nd in points
– Ron Capps had quite the homecoming Sunday at Sonoma Raceway when his better reaction time at the start of the Funny Car final propelled him and his NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger R/T team into the winners circle for the second time this season and first since the second race of the season in February.
Capps’ quicker reaction to the starting line Christmas Tree enabled his 4.085-second run at 307.79 mph to beat 15-time world champion John Force’s 4.072 (311.13) for the holeshot win.
“A holeshot-win only comes with a great car,” Capps said. “That 4.04 we ran to beat Courtney (Force in the semifinals) was stout.”
U.S. Army NHRA Racing 26th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals Final Qualifying Report
Sonoma, CA – The U.S. Army Racing Top Fuel duo of Tony “The Sarge” Schumacher and Antron Brown will start Sunday’s elimination 
rounds of the 26th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals in the 12th and seventh positions, respectively, after Saturday’s final Mello Yello Drag Racing Series qualifying sessions at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway.
Both teams welcomed beautiful weather and displayed a level of engineering and teamwork reflective of the Army’s leading-edge technology Saturday in conditions similar to what they’ll deal with Sunday in eliminations. Schumacher, driver of the U.S. Army Dragster for Don Schumacher Racing (DSR), successfully got down the track to open Saturday’s action with a run of 3.838 seconds at 323.89 mph. In the fourth qualifying session, “The Sarge” went for an even better run, but like several of the Top Fuel competitors, lost traction just past half track.
Hagan earns year’s third No. 1 spot at NHRA Sonoma Nationals; DSR teammates Schumacher, Massey to meet in first round
SONOMA, CA – Don Schumacher Racing will shoot for its second consecutive “double-up” Sunday at Sonoma Raceway during 
championship eliminations in the Sonoma NHRA Nationals about 60 miles from San Francisco.
DSR wants to replicate its success from a year ago at scenic Sonoma, Calif., when Johnny Gray won Funny Car and Antron Brown won Top Fuel.
DSR has won both nitro titles at five of this season’s 14 NHRA Mello Yello series events.
Venables pumps up Hagan to top spot after opening day of Sonoma Nationals; Massey paces DSR Top Fuel with No. 5 run
SONOMA, CA – Sonoma Raceway became the fifth NHRA track to produce a sub-4-second run by a Funny Car, and it happened twice Friday night in the Sonoma Nationals.
And both times it was by Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger R/T Funny Cars.
Points leader Matt Hagan, the first Funny Car to crack into 3-second territory, had a 3.986-second run at 320.51 mph in his Magneti Marelli Offered by Mopar/Rocky Boots Dodge, tying for the second best run ever to earn the provisional No. 1 qualifying position heading to Friday’s final two qualifying sessions at the track about 60 miles from San Francisco.
‘Fast’ Jack Beckman leads off this weeks Pre-race DSR Report
SONOMA, CA – Jack Beckman is surprised that his Valvoline MaxLife/MTS Mail for Wounded Warriors team will not have won an NHRA Mello Yello event title this season when they arrive this week at Sonoma Raceway near San Francisco.
The team that won the 2012 NHRA Funny Car world championship in one of Don Schumacher Racing’s Dodge Charger R/T Funny Cars has advanced to only one championship round this season but holds sixth place in the championship standings.
Schumacher Overcomes Qualifying Woes To Reach Mile-High Semifinals, Brown out in Round 1
Morrison, CO – As is typically the case whenever they pay their annual visit to the foot of the Rocky Mountains for the NHRA Mile-High 
Nationals, this year’s 34th edition of the popular Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event was an exercise in perseverance for the U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster duo of Tony “The Sarge” Schumacher and Antron Brown.
The rarified air at 5,800 feet above sea level posed the usual setup challenges on the Bandimere Speedway dragstrip just west of Denver this weekend, but it was evident that each member of the U.S. Army Racing team plays a vital role in the success of the car on the track, similar to how every Soldier, no matter which of the more than 150 career options he or she chooses in the Army, is vital to the success of the mission.
Massey conquers Bandimere to earn third title of the year in NHRA Mello Yello Series
Bandimere Speedway near Denver was the toughest on Sunday.And Spencer Massey’s Battery Extender Powered by Schumacher team reached the summit and won the Top Fuel title in the Mopar Mile-High Nationals to get his third Wally trophy of the season.
Crew chief Phil Shuler tuned Massey to four runs between 3.966 seconds and 3.996 seconds en route to his 13th title in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.
Bandimere Speedway sits roughly a mile above sea level with thin air, depriving the nitro-powered machines of oxygen and making it a challenge for drivers, crew chiefs and team members.
Capps qualifies in the middle of the pack at #8 and leads off the DSR Saturday report
Morrison, CO – Ron Capps has been to drag racing’s mountaintop every year since 1997 and his experience has led to a disciplined routine when he heads to Bandimere Speedway outside of Denver for the Mopar Mile-High Nationals.
The driver of Don Schumacher Racing’s NAPA AUTO PARTS Funny Car won at Bandimere in 2009 when he also won the pole. He has been runner-up twice.
Racing in mile-high altitude like at Bandimere chokes the power of the supercharged, nitro-fueled engines and can have a similar effect on people more accustomed to sea-level.
Schumacher and Brown Struggle on the ‘Mountain’, Qualify 10th and 12th
Morrison, CO – It took a clutch performance in the fourth and final qualifying session of the weekend Saturday for Tony Schumacher 
and the U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster for Don Schumacher Racing (DSR) to safely make it to Sunday’s elimination rounds of the 34th annual Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway just west of Denver.
Schumacher and the U.S. Army team struggled through both qualifying sessions Friday and, after today’s penultimate qualifying run, the seven-time Top Fuel world champion found himself outside the top-16 with one chance remaining on one of the trickiest racetracks on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule thanks, in large part, to the fact it sits more than a mile above sea level at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
