BROWNSBURG, IN – Jack Beckman and his John Force Racing PEAK SQUAD head into the Aug. 27-Sept. 1 Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals with handfuls of prior success at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, a full head of steam heading into the final race of the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing regular season, and a deep respect for the racing legends, pro and sportsmen, who paved the way for him and the rest of today’s competitors.

Beckman has earned two U.S. Nationals Funny Car titles, in 2015 and 2020.

Fast Jack has earned four Funny Car all-star races during the Cornwell Quality Parts U.S. Nationals (2007, 2013, 2015, 2017) with a perfect event record of 12-0.

The 2012 NHRA Funny Car Champion and 2003 NHRA Super Comp Champion has also earned three Funny Car runner-up finishes at the U.S. Nationals (2008, 2013, 2019) Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Austin Prock and the John Force Racing Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team have been dominant throughout the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing and there won’t be any letup in the Aug. 27-Sept. 1 Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park … especially if the reigning event/series champion and current points leader has anything to say about it.

The Lansing, Mich., native brings a 242-point lead into the final race of the regular season, with his closest competitor being John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman.

Prock has earned six wins this season, back-to-back at Las Vegas and Charlotte, back to back again in Virginia and Ohio, and the previous two races in Sonoma and Brainerd.

The Jimmy Prock/Thomas Prock/Nate Hildahl-led team has also earned four No. 1 Qualifier positions, at Pomona, New England, Bristol, and Seattle.

The 2024 Funny Car Champion has two wins in this season’s #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge, at Charlotte and Seattle in six appearances. Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – The unbelievable speed has been visible from the beginning of the year and the performance consistency Brittany Force and her John Force Racing Top Fuel team have been looking for throughout the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing season has made itself known as the team readies for the Aug. 27-Sept. 1 Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Brittany’s John Force Racing Top Fuel Dragster will carry the Cornwell Quality Tools paint scheme; it will be the first time she’s competed in the livery in an NHRA-sanctioned event.

The 2017 and 2022 NHRA Top Fuel Champion has four U.S. Nationals No. 1 Qualifier efforts on her resume, earning the top spot in 2019, 2021, 2022, and last year.

The Yorba Linda, Calif., native has two U.S. Nationals runner-up finishes, in 2021 and 2022. Brittany owns both the ends of the NHRA Top Fuel performance record (3.623 seconds and 343.16 mph) and has made 10 runs at more than 340 mph.

The 18-time Top Fuel event winner is currently fifth in the 2025 Mission Foods Top Fuel point standings, 94 behind Justin Ashley in fourth place, while two ahead of Antron Brown in sixth and 113 ahead of Clay Millican in seventh. Continue reading →

Brittany Force to make her first NHRA start under the Cornwell Quality Tools banner at the Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals

BROWNSBURG, IN – NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing fans won’t be seeing double on Labor Day Weekend but they will be seeing the John Force Racing teams of Brittany Force (Top Fuel) and Austin Prock (Funny Car) both sponsored by Cornwell Quality Tools for the Aug. 27 – Sept. 1 Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Prock’s Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car has become a familiar fixture atop the point standings since his 2024 class debut, subsequent season championship, and last week at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway, becoming the first Funny Car driver to clinch a spot in the 2025 Countdown to the Championship.  For Force, the Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals will be the first NHRA event that the world’s fastest race car of two-time Top Fuel Champion (2022, 2017) Force will compete under the Cornwell Quality Tools banner.

“I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to John Force Racing for the incredible opportunity to serve as primary sponsor for Brittany Force and her Top Fuel team at the inaugural Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals,” said Bob Studenic, CEO, Cornwell Quality Tools. “With Funny Car points leader Austin Prock and the indomitable Queen of Speed, Brittany Force, teaming up under the Cornwell Quality Tools banner, this Labor Day weekend at the Big Go promises to be nothing short of electrifying. The roar of horsepower, the thrill of competition, and the spirit of champions – what better way to celebrate the holiday!” Continue reading →

Force, Beckman both move up in the point standings with semifinal finishes 

BRAINERD, MN – Austin Prock woke up determined to better his reaction time performance during today’s NHRA Mission Foods Lucas Oil Nationals and the John Force Racing Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car driver saved his best for the championship round at Brainerd International Raceway.

The reigning Funny Car Champion and current season point leader cut a .043-of-a-second reaction time against J.R. Todd, whom he finished runner-up to at this race last year. Prock went on to clock a lap of 3.907 seconds at 321.50 mph while Todd’s run went up in tire smoke. His reaction times in the first three rounds were .048, 048, and .052, giving him a four-run average of a stunning .047.

“I was consistent throughout qualifying but I was about a?hundredth slower than I wanted to be, or where I felt like I needed to be,” said Prock. So, this morning I woke up and just all the stars aligned for this Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS team. I got after it and attacked the Christmas Tree and had probably one of my best driving performances leaving the starting line in either category, Top Fuel or Funny Car. That definitely makes me feel good, especially going into the U.S Nationals.? Continue reading →

Force, Prock both qualify second

BRAINERD, MN – Jack Beckman ran the table Saturday in final-day qualifying for the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

The 2012 NHRA Funny Car Champion took advantage of a very strong John Force Racing PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car in both rounds of qualifying. In the first, Beckman earned the No. 1 Qualifier spot with a run of 3.879 seconds at 330.63 mph. He then continued the hot streak in the second round to win the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge by defeating Matt Hagen with a lap of 3.942 seconds at 324.59 mph.

John Force Racing teammates Brittany Force and Austin Prock both qualified their cars in the No. 2 spot. Force’s first qualifying run Saturday was her best of four, with the Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster running 3.697 seconds and resetting the Brainerd International Raceway speed record at 340.82 mph. On the Funny Car side, the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS of season points leader and reigning series champion Austin Prock lost traction during both runs Saturday but, fortunately, had already established his best run the day before at 3.893 seconds at 331.45 mph. Continue reading →

BRAINERD, MN – John Force Racing’s Austin Prock and Jack Beckman are atop the Funny Car leaderboard and Top Fuel driver Brittany Force sits fifth after the first day of qualifying for the NHRA Mission Foods Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway.

All three of John Force Racing’s teams took advantage of better track conditions during Friday’s second round of qualifying to improve on their positions after the first round. Prock’s lap of 3.893 seconds at 331.45 mph in the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS earned the No. 1 spot with Beckman a close second after a run of 3.907 seconds at 323.66 mph in the Peak Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS. Force is fifth in the Top Fuel class after an evening run of 3.766 seconds at 332.10 mph in the Monster Energy Top Fuel entry.

Prock’s No. 1 status on Friday earned him the American Rebel Light ‘Friday Night Battle for the Rebel Axe’. The Rebel Axe trophy is a fully functional electric cigar box guitar, custom-built in the shape of a 12-pack of American Rebel Light Beer and branded with sponsor and event logos. The trophy also comes with a $4,000 bonus. Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Reigning NHRA Funny Car Champion Austin Prock heads into this week’s Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway with laser focus on continuing the dominant regular season run that currently finds him atop the 2025 season leaderboard with just two races remaining before the Countdown to the Championship.

The 29-year-old driver of John Force Racing’s Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car is 201 points ahead of his closest rival in the category, Matt Hagen, and 205 points ahead of John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman. His point lead was built on the strength of the team’s victories at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (April 13), zMax Dragway (April 27), Virginia Motorsports Park (June 22), Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (June 29), and at Sonoma Raceway (July 27).

Prock had earned four of his 2024 championship-season total of eight wins at this point last season. Brainerd, the site of Race 13 of the 20-race 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing schedule, is one of the facilities where Prock hasn’t yet pulled into winner’s circle, having already earned victories at 10 of the 17 tracks on the schedule in just 32 events in the Funny Car category. Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – Brittany Force and her Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster team showed the drag racing world what going really, really fast is all about during the  recently completed NHRA West Coast swing but their focus heading into this weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway is all about tripping the win line four consecutive times on Sunday.

The 2017 and 2022 NHRA Top Fuel Champion set and reset the NHRA Top Fuel national speed record over consecutive weekends at the previous two races this season. On July 20, she ran 341.85 mph in a semifinals win against Doug Kalitta at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Wash. One week later, during night qualifying on July 25 at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway, the Monster Energy dragster went through the speed trap lights at an earth-shaking 343.68 mph.

Force has previously tasted victory at Brainerd, earning the third of her 18 Top Fuel national event titles during her breakout season in 2016. The win backed up her runner-up finish to Richie Crampton the season before. Her father, team owner and 16-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force, won 11 times at Brainerd, the most wins by any driver in a single event. Continue reading →

BROWNSBURG, IN – This weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals marks the one-year anniversary of Jack Beckman’s return to NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Funny Car competition after nearly four years away from the sport and he can’t wait to get back to Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway.

The 37-time NHRA Funny Car national event winner assumed the driving duties of the John Force Racing Peak Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car after team owner and 16-time champion John Force’s crash June 23, 2024, during the NHRA Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie, Va.

The 2018 Brainerd winner qualified sixth for last year’s race, then defeated Bobby Bode in the first round of eliminations before falling to Blake Alexander in the second round. Over the final seven races of the season, Beckman earned two victories, Sept. 29 at World Wide Technology Raceway (defeating Ron Capps) and Nov. 11 in the season-finale at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip against John Force Racing teammate and 2024 Funny Car Champion Austin Prock. Continue reading →