Ron Capps will be Newsmaker of the Week on The Race Reporters radio show Wednesday, July 8, at 7 p.m. EDT on www.PowerUpChannel.com.
 
Capps began the year by taking the first two events in the NAPA Dodge Charger fielded by Don Schumacher Racing. He’s third in Funny Car points going into this weekend’s race near Denver. Capps has been the world championship runner-up three times but is still trying for his first title.
    
The Race Reporters can be heard live, downloaded into an iPod, or accessed for listening on a delayed basis by clicking on the show icon at www.PowerUpChannel.com. Listeners can bookmark the show and sign up to receive a free e-card with news on upcoming guests at the show’s page, www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549. The show will re-air several times later in the week (check PowerUp’s daily programming listing).
 
The host of The Race Reporters is Michael Knight, a 40-year motorsports industry insider and award-winning publicist and journalist. The one-hour show’s format is a “good, hard, honest, Constitutionally protected conversation on the issues of the day.”
    
Joining Knight as media roundtable panelists will be Jim Pedley, managing editor of RacinToday.com; Jeff Burk, editor of DragRacingOnline.com; and NHRA announcer Alan Reinhart.
 
For more information on The Race Reporters, log on to www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=1549.