00 Race Program Dossier

Driven By Legacy. Built For The Strip.

The Caine Group Racing is a premium NHRA Funny Car program: Spencer Hyde, Jim Head Racing, and a tribute story carried at 300+ MPH.

The Caine Group Funny Car launching through smoke and fire
Caine Russell / Forever In Our Hearts

Legacy The reason

Built From The Reason We Race.

The Caine Group was created in loving memory of Caine. His love for drag racing, his bigger-than-life personality, and his passion for life are the center of the program.

That truth stays visible in the car, the crew, and the way the name is carried through every race weekend.

Family watching from the drag strip
Caine memorial portrait
Forever In Our Hearts

Race Team Identity

The Team Carrying The Name Forward.

Spencer Hyde carries The Caine Group colors inside Jim Head Racing's nitro Funny Car operation: a rising Canadian driver, a serious independent team, and a story with a reason to be at the track.

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The Caine Group Funny Car in the Head Racing shop
Driver Spencer Hyde
Operation Head Inc. Ford Mustang
Crew Chief Jim Head
Career Best 3.863 ET / 333.58 MPH
  • Ontario native and 2025 NHRA Funny Car rookie
  • Full-time Jim Head Racing nitro Funny Car seat
  • Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge winner in Las Vegas
  • World Series of Pro Mod winner before the nitro move

The Car Specs

Built For Speed. Detailed For The Story.

The car is the proof point: nitro Funny Car power, Ford Mustang presence, and The Caine Group identity visible from the burnout box to the finish stripe.

The Caine Group race car
Class NHRA Funny Car
Body Ford Mustang
Performance 300+ MPH
Series NHRA Mission Foods
Livery The Caine Group
Fuel Nitromethane

Race Hub Schedule / results / story

The Season, Without The Clutter.

A compact home base for what race fans actually need first: where the car is, how the last finished race went, and what story is moving around the program.

Current Race Now

Route 66 NHRA Nationals

Race-week home base for the current Funny Car stop, with eliminations and official timing through NHRA.

Latest Finished Result Last

Southern Nationals Quarterfinal

Hyde reached the Funny Car quarterfinal before event winner Jordan Vandergriff advanced through him on the way to the final.

Latest Story Story

Caine Group At Charlotte 4-Wide

The Caine Group carried primary backing on Hyde's Jim Head Racing Funny Car, putting the Caine Russell story on a national stage.

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The Season In Motion.

Track the car, the crew, and the moments around race weekend.

@THECAINEGROUP

Program Partners Serious support

Built With Serious Support.

The program sits inside a real racing network: shops, manufacturers, brands, and race-week people whose work is visible in the car, the pit, and the way the story is carried.

Primary Moment The Caine Group on Hyde's Charlotte 4-Wide Funny Car
Race Operation Head Inc. Ford Mustang with Jim Head Racing
Support Network Technical shops, manufacturers, and race-week crew
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