PEAK Motorsports Update- June 2, 2025

NHRA: NHRA New England Nationals- Epping, NH

Monday, June 2, 2025: 

Disappointed by an opening round loss two weeks ago at Chicago, a stumble that temporarily denied her a milestone 300th NHRA round win, Brittany Force responded Sunday in a manner one would expect of a two-time Top Fuel World Champion, beating number one qualifier Doug Kalitta and point leader Tony Stewart in the final two rounds to win the 12th NHRA New England Nationals at New England Dragway.

The second youngest of John Force’s drag racing daughters wrestled her Monster Energy dragster across the finish line in 3.694 seconds at a booming 340.39 miles per hour in the final round to outpace Stewart by 0.007 of a second. 

Not only did Brittany become just the 12th Top Fuel driver in the 75-year history of the NHRA series to win 300 rounds, but she also raised the winner’s trophy for the 18th time in her 12-year pro career, tying her with Shirley Muldowney for the most event victories by a woman in the sport’s signature class. 

As if that wasn’t enough for one day, she applied an exclamation point by accelerating to a track record-setting 341.42 mph in her semifinal victory over Kalitta, just a tick off the 341.59 mph NHRA national record she set last April at Charlotte, North Carolina. The win propelled Force to fifth place in the Top Fuel standing, 164 points behind Stewart but less than 100 back of second place Shawn Langdon.

It was a disappointing and expensive day for the JFR Funny Car contingent although it ended with Austin Prock and Jack Beckman still 1-2 in the Mission Foods driver standings.

Prock again was burned by the erratic behavior of a Cornwell Tools Chevy SS that has developed something of a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. After qualifying number one for the 17th time in 27 starts in Funny Car, he was upset in round one by Buddy Hull when his national record-holding Chevy inexplicably lost traction as soon as he hit the throttle.

Nevertheless, Prock was at least able to avoid the fate that befell Jack Beckman. The weekend started with Beckman winning Saturday afternoon in the Mission Foods qualifying race for the second time this season, but took a turn for the worst Sunday when his PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevy slammed into the guard wall in the semifinals against Spencer Hyde. In the freak incident, Beckman’s PEAK Chevrolet made a hard left into the wall after tire shake, ending his opportunity for back-to-back wins. Beckman was uninjured in the accident.

"Fast" Jack and The PEAKSquad will unload last year’s PEAK Chevy SS Friday in Bristol, Tennessee, where they and the rest of the NHRA contingent will begin qualifying just two rounds behind Prock for the Funny Car series lead at the Thunder Valley Nationals (June 6-8th).