Things can’t get much better in the drag racing world right now for Ron Capps.

After winning his first NHRA nitro Funny Car NHRA world championship a year ago, the veteran driver is in the midst of an amazing 2017 season.

Capps won his fourth race in a row Sunday when he captured the title at the Menards NHRA Nationals presented by Minties at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kan.

“Trust me, I’m just the luckiest dude in the world,” Capps said. “I had nothing to do with it. I just stepped on the gas at the right time and held the car together in the right lane and (I’m) just so blessed.”

Capps clocked a 3.924-second time at 321.42 mph in his Don Schumacher Racing NAPA Dodge to defeat his DSR teammate Matt Hagan’s 3.985-second lap at 318.92 mph.

This was Capps’ 54th career NHRA national event win - 53 in Funny Car and one in Top Fuel in 1995 in Seattle while piloting Roger Primm’s dragster. This also was Capps’ fourth career win at Topeka as he now has nitro Funny Car victories at the track in 1998, 2006, 2009 and 2017.

Capps’ current race-victory parade consists of wins at Houston, Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta, and Topeka. Coming into this season, Capps had never won more than two races in a row.

On Sunday Capps beat Cruz Pedregon, Courtney Force, Robert Hight, and Hagan. The same Hagan who set both ends of the national record in nitro Funny Car Saturday, with his 3.802-second elapsed time at 338.85 mph. Hight set the national record for speed in the class at 337.66 mph on Friday before it was broken by Hagan the next day.

“We were extremely bummed we couldn’t get in there and trade blows Friday and Saturday with the other teams running those big speeds and all the headlines going across the world were about Funny Cars going almost 340 mph,” Capps said. “We were fighting a little bit of an issue in the car and it was in the fuel system and I told you in the media Sunday morning he (his crew chief Rahn Tobler) decided to put a bigger fuel pump on it, which is something you just don’t do. You usually test something like before you go to a race, you don’t do it prior to race day on Sunday morning, but he has the confidence and the NAPA Know How I brag about to do something like that and sure enough it paid off. Those speeds are great and they are great for headlines, but Mello Yello championships are won by ETs, and especially race wins. I would’ve so loved to have been battling those guys and it was so fun to watch as a fan and I’m so proud to be a part of a Funny Car division that went out there and set those records. I’m sure we are going to show up at Epping (N.H., the next race, June 2-4) and there will be a change to our Rev limiters, but it’s OK because I have a crew chief who can adapt to anything. It just shows you what kind of team (we have that) can be OK in qualifying and qualify seventh and show up race day and do what we’ve been doing the last three races and what we did at last year at the end of the year to win the championship.”

In a four-race span, Capps has made winning look easy, but he acknowledged it is a lot harder than it appears to reach the winners circle.

“While it looks like from the outside you’re in a zone, it surely doesn’t feel that way,” Capps said. “You feel like every little round you show up to, every run is an assault against what you’re trying to do to everybody else in the class. I’ve had these great talks with Jimmie Johnson, who is a good friend of mine, and we’ve watched what he has done in NASCAR and I’ve had these talks in the past when I’ve come close to winning championships and I ‘ve gotten these text messages and these talks from him and that’s a guy you think can get into a zone, but he’s the same way. There’s just some days you just don’t feel like you’re going to be sitting here, holding this Wally.”

One of those days was Sunday at Topeka for Capps.

“There’s a little part of me that woke up this morning, going ‘Man we didn’t qualify well and we’re putting a new fuel pump on it,’ and a little part of you was like boy this could go a lot of different ways,” Capps said. “Then, you remind yourself, that we won a championship for a reason and we’ve now won four in a row for a reason because everybody has just come together. You dream about driving and racing a Funny Car, but you can’t even dream big enough to dream about what I have gotten to do and win four Wallys in a row.”