{"id":69123,"date":"2020-01-30T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=69123"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T17:25:57","slug":"don-schumacher-racing-hauler-goes-up-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/don-schumacher-racing-hauler-goes-up-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Schumacher Racing Hauler Goes Up in Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69124\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69124\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/don-schumacher-racing-hauler-goes-up-in-flames\/ron-capps-fire_feature-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Don Schumacher Racing Hauler Goes Up in Flames\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image courtesy Don Schumacher Racing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min.jpg\" alt=\"Don Schumacher Racing Hauler Goes Up in Flames\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy Don Schumacher Racing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ron Capps and his team are dealing with a major disappointment today after having to sit out the first preseason test of the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series due to suffering a major setback Tuesday night. After the hauler transporting the former NHRA champ\u2019s Funny Car caught fire in Amarillo, Texas, this team not only suffered a pretty big shock but were also forced to sit out their preseason start in Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>While the cause of the three-alarm fire on the side of the highway in Amarillo is still under investigation, this team is currently having to deal with heavy damage to both the hauler and Capp\u2019s season opening Funny Car. In fact, the rear doors melted so much that they were unable to be opened without a crowbar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69125\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/don-schumacher-racing-hauler-goes-up-in-flames\/ron-capps-fire_img2-min\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,541\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Don Schumacher Racing Hauler Goes Up in Flames\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min.jpg\" alt=\"Don Schumacher Racing Hauler Goes Up in Flames\" width=\"960\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min-308x173.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_IMG2-min-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the extensive damage to both the hauler and car, no one on the Don Schumacher Racing team was injured and Capps and his team say that they will be ready for next weekend\u2019s NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season-opening race in Pomona, Calif. Stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/\">RacingJunk.com<\/a> as this story continues to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ron Capps and his team are dealing with a major disappointment today after having to sit out the first preseason test of the 2020 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":69124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029,3399],"tags":[574,2,2200,1619,146,41,7,1632,442],"class_list":["post-69123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","category-nhra","tag-don-schumacher-racing","tag-drag-racing","tag-dsr","tag-ellen-richardson","tag-fire","tag-news","tag-nhra","tag-racing","tag-ron-capps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Ron-Capps-Fire_Feature-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-hYT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69127,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69123\/revisions\/69127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}