Force finishes final season fourth in Top Fuel, Beckman third in Funny Car

POMONA, CA – Austin Prock and his Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team captured their second consecutive NHRA Mission Foods Funny Car championship without making a single pass down In-N-Out Burger Dragway as persistent rain all three days of the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals completely canceled the event.

John Force Racing Funny Car teammate Jack Beckman and the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS team finished third in the final point standings while Brittany Force and her Monster Energy Top Fuel team finished fourth in the points, making her winning run in the final round two weeks ago at Las Vegas her final trip down the strip as she steps away to focus on starting a family.

“To win one world championship is one thing, and to win two is another and it puts you in a select group,” Prock said. “I think there’s only seven of us who have ever done it, and to add my name to that list, I wish my entire team could be added to that list. I get all the praise and the glory from the media and from the fans, but it’s not just me. I couldn’t accomplish what I’ve done in the last two years without the people behind me, and I’m really proud of them.” Continue reading →

Winningest driver in NHRA history officially hangs up his firesuit

YORBA LINDA, CA – Legendary drag racer John Force, 16-time Funny Car champion and the winningest driver in NHRA history, announced Thursday during a media luncheon at his race shop in Yorba Linda that he is officially retiring from competition 17 months after suffering injuries in a devastating crash during competition at Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Va.

The numbers Force accumulated over a career that began in the 1970s speak for themselves: 16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion (1990-91, 1993-2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013); 157 event wins; 269 final-round appearances; 166 No. 1 Qualifiers; 1,460 round wins in competition.

“I really love NHRA but I am officially done with driving,” said Force. “I’ve said so many times, ‘Until this race car kills me, they’re gonna have to drag me out of the seat.’ But the truth is, I was dragged out of the seat at Richmond and they thought it killed me then. So, I’m lucky that I’m back walking. They always say never say never, but I have grandchildren with Courtney and Graham, with Ashley and Danny, and now Brittany’s retired because she wants to have children.” Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – John Force Racing’s PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car team is focused on serving up an incredibly unique win with driver Jack Beckman at the Nov. 13-16 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals, a feat that could come straight out of the legendary burger joint’s secret menu.

The 2012 NHRA Funny Car Champion, currently third in the 2025 point standings, is seeking a fifth straight win at his home track, In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Beckman won the 2019 Finals and the 2020 Winternationals but there was no race at Pomona in the fall of 2020 because of the COVID pandemic. He sat out the next three seasons so his next Pomona appearance wasn’t until the 2024 Finals, which he won John Force Racing, and then he won this year’s Winternationals.  So, though it’s taken seven years, Fast Jack has four straight wins at Pomona and is working on five as the defending race champion.

The 2025 NHRA Funny Car point standings heading into the season finale are: Austin Prock, 2,594; Matt Hagan, 2,493; Jack Beckman, 2,416; Ron Capps, 2,370; Daniel Wilkerson, 2,369; Paul Lee, 2,289; Chad Green, 2,288; Cruz Pedregon, 2,283; Spencer Hyde, 2,272; Bob Tasca III (2,264). Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Austin Prock and his John Force Racing Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team roll into In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragway for the Nov. 13-16 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals with the exact same approach they started the season with back in March at Gainesville: turn on the win light every pass down the track and take home a second consecutive NHRA Funny Car Championship.

The reigning champion has a 101-point lead on the strength of nine event wins, three runner-up finishes and seven No. 1 qualifying positions in the previous 19 races of the 2025 season. Those stats merely add to last year’s championship stats when he won eight races, finished runner-up four times, and was the No. 1 Qualifier a record 15 times … in his rookie Funny Car season.

The 2025 NHRA Funny Car point standings heading into the season finale are: Austin Prock, 2,594; Matt Hagan, 2,493; Jack Beckman, 2,416; Ron Capps, 2,370; Daniel Wilkerson, 2,369; Paul Lee, 2,289; Chad Green, 2,288; Cruz Pedregon, 2,283; Spencer Hyde, 2,272; Bob Tasca III (2,264). Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Brittany Force will step out of the seat of her Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster for the final time at the conclusion of the Nov. 13-16 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Nationals at her home track In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragway to blaze a new personal path with her husband Bobby but the accomplishments she achieved with her John Force Racing team will be etched in the history books.

Here are just some of the statistics: two-time NHRA Top Fuel Champion (2017, 2022); 2013 NHRA Rookie of the Year; 19 event titles, making her the winningest female Top Fuel driver in NHRA history; 21 runner-up finishes; 319 round wins; the elapsed time national record (3.623 seconds); the national record speed (343.51 mph); the first driver in NHRA history to eclipse 340 mph (April 25, 2025); 12 runs at more than 340 mph; reset the national speed record four times in 2025 alone.

She has one more race at Pomona Dragway, where it all began, to add to those already amazing numbers.

The 2025 NHRA Top Fuel point standings heading into the season finale are: Doug Kalitta, 2,607; Shawn Langdon, 2,463; Justin Ashley, 2,444, Brittany Force, 2,415; Tony Stewart, 2,364; Clay Milliken, 2,335; Steve Torrence, 2,297; Shawn Reed, 2,290; Antron Brown, 2,275; Josh Hart, 2,185. Continue reading →

Beckman and PEAK SQUAD exit after second-round loss

LAS VEGAS – John Force Racing’s Brittany Force and Austin Prock both returned to the final round in this year’s NHRA Nevada Nationals as they did last year, but this time it was just Force who took home the Top hardware at the end of the day while Prock finished with the runner-up but inched that much closer to a consecutive Funny Car championship.

Jack Beckman ran a quicker elapsed time than second-round opponent Daniel Wilkerson but a late jump off the starting line nullified a strong run that would have put the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car into the semifinals and kept alive his championship hopes.

In her final appearance at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Brittany Force and her 12,000-horsepower Chevrolet Accessories Top Fuel Dragster powered past Shawn Langdon in the final round on Sunday, winning for the 19th time in her career and moving ahead of Shirley Muldowney for the most Top Fuel wins by a female driver. Continue reading →

Beckman moves from 7th to third in Q3, to first briefly in Q4, very satisfied with second

LAS VEGAS – Brittany Force earned her 58th Top Fuel No. 1 qualifying position, Austin Prock earned his 22nd in the Funny Car ranks and Jack Beckman qualified second in Funny Car for a John Force Racing sweep heading into Sunday’s first round of eliminations for the NHRA Nevada Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Force and Prock and trying to repeat the results of last year’s Nevada Nationals, where they captured the Top Fuel and Funny Car titles in team owner John’s Force’s return to the track after a serious racing accident in Richmond five months prior.

Force’s Q2 run Friday of 3.697 seconds at 338.85 mph in the Chevrolet Accessories Top Fuel Dragster planted a flag in the ground that the rest of the Las Vegas Top Fuel field were unable to attain Saturday. It was the two-time Top Fuel Champion’s (2017, 2022) sixth No. 1 of the 2025 season. In Q3 Saturday, tire smoke near half-track ended the run prematurely but the Dave Grubnic/John Collins-led team reset for Q4 with a lap of 3.876 seconds. She has a first-round bye Sunday morning and will face the winner of the Antron Brown-Clay Millikan matchup in Round 2. Continue reading →

John Force Racing drivers set low E.T. in Top Fuel and Funny Car while Beckman makes big move up the ladder in second session

LAS VEGAS – John Force Racing’s Brittany Force and Austin Prock picked up where they left off from winning last year’s NHRA Nevada Nationals by setting low elapsed time in Top Fuel and Funny Car during the first day of qualifying for this season’s penultimate event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Force ran 3.697 seconds at 338.85 mph (resetting her own track record of 338.17 mph set Nov. 1, 2019) in the Chevrolet Accessories Top Fuel Dragster while Prock and the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car tripped the timing lights in 3.895 seconds at 334.48 mph. Their Q2 runs earned each of them the $3,500 “Ted Wiens Trick or Traction Award” as the No. 1 qualifier in their respective categories during the day’s second qualifying session.

John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman erased his 16th-place showing after the first round with a second-round run of 3.937 seconds at 330.47 mph in the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car. In the first session, the car launched well but broke the tires at the 330-foot mark and slowed to a run of 4.620 seconds at 178.31 mph. Fast Jack is currently seventh in the 16-car ladder. Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – It was at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2006 that PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car driver Jack Beckman earned the first of his 37 career event wins in the category and his goal at the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 Nevada Nationals is to break the dry spell that has kept him out of winner’s circle there in the 16 races he competed in since.

The 2012 NHRA Funny Car Champion has earned two runner-up finishes in previous Nevada Nationals (2009, 2012) and three No. 1 Qualifying positions (2016, 2017, 2019) but that second win has been elusive. It’s a stat he and his Daniel Hood/Tim Fabrisi/Chris Cunningham-led team are focused on rectifying this weekend.

Beckman is third in the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Funny Car point standings after 18 of 20 races. The Top 10 are: 1. 2485 Austin Prock (2,485); 2. Matt Hagan (-112); 3. Jack Beckman (-131); 4. Ron Capps (-149); 5. Dan Wilkerson (-189); 6. Paul Lee (-228); 7. Cruz Pedregon (-233); 8. Chad Green (-249); 9. Spencer Hyde (-268); 10. Alexis Dejoria (-290). Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Austin Prock has a short list favorite dining spots to frequent while in Las Vegas but the place he’s become most familiar with in Sin City is the winner’s circle at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a place he hopes to visit for a third consecutive time at the conclusion of the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 Nevada Nationals.

The reigning NHRA Mission Foods Funny Car Champion has won the last two races at The Strip, beating Paul Lee to win the Nevada Nationals last fall and outlasting Paul Lee, Dave Richards and Matt Hagan to win the Four Wide Nationals this past April. Last fall’s win was the first race team owner and 16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force returned to the track after his major accident in June while competing at the NHRA Virginia Nationals. His John Force Racing Brittany Force made it an event sweep for the 23-time championship organization by taking the Top Fuel title.

Prock has nine wins in 18 races heading into the penultimate round of the 2025 season at The Strip. The Jimmy Prock/Thomas Prock/Nate Hildahl-led Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team has also finished runner-up at Phoenix and Chicago, for a total of 11 final-round appearances this season. They’ve also captured the No. 1 Qualifier spot six times: Pomona, New Hampshire, Bristol, Seattle, St. Louis, and Dallas. Continue reading →