PEAK Motorsports Update- October 13, 2025

NHRA: Texas NHRA FallNationals - Ennis, TX

Monday, October 13, 2025: 

The freight train that is Austin Prock and John Force Racing’s Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car team continued its tear down the championship tracks with an overpowering win in the NHRA Mission Foods Texas Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex.
 
Brittany Force was quick, fast and consistent in all four qualifying sessions and two rounds of competition before a mechanical issue with the Monster Energy Top Fuel Dragster in the semifinals during the burnout procedure shut off the engine and prevented her from competing further. Jack Beckman and the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car team easily handled its Round 1 competition, but fell in Round 2.

The 2024 NHRA Funny Car Champion picked up his ninth win of the season, earning his first winner’s cowboy hat from the facility celebrating its 40th year of NHRA competition, with a lap of 3.959 seconds at 328.30 mph over Ron Capps, who ran 4.405 seconds at 199.80 mph after his parachute deployed shortly after leaving the starting line. Prock entered the weekend just 20 points ahead of second-place Matt Hagan, but now leads by 112 with the victory and Hagan’s first-round departure.

Austin had a typically strong Prock Rocket run to the final round. He ran low ET of the weekend in Round 1 against Blake Alexander (3.867 seconds at 335.70 mph) and took care of Spencer Hyde in Round 2 with a run of 3.939 seconds at 329.48 mph. The 17-time Funny Car winner gave up the holeshot to Chad Green in the semifinals but quickly got past, running 3.963 seconds at 328.63 mph to Green’s 4.068/308.09.

Beckman, who qualified third, took on No. 14 qualifier Dave Richards in Round 1, with the PEAK SQUAD running 3.911 seconds at 330.57 mph to Richard’s 4.046 at 318.72. The 2012 Funny Car Champion earned lane choice for the second-round matchup against Daniel Wilkerson, but his 3.993-second run at 323.14 mph was not enough to get by Wilkerson’s 3.944/327.46 run.

The Top 10 in Funny Car after four of six races in the 2025 NHRA Countdown to the Championship are:

1. Austin Prock 2,485 points
2. Matt Hagan 2,373 points
3. Jack Beckman 2,354 points
4. Ron Capps 2,336 points
5. Daniel Wilkerson 2,296 points
6. Paul Lee 2,257 points
7. Cruz Pedregon 2,252 points
8. Chad Green 2,236 points
9. Spencer Hyde 2,217 points
10. Alexis Dejoria 2,195 points

In Round 1, Force ran her second 340-mph run of the weekend (340.14 mph) and 12th of the year, and her elapsed time, 3.729 seconds, was more than enough to defeat Tony Schumacher and move on to the second-round matchup against Justin Ashley.

Ashley got the holeshot, but only by 0.005-of-a-second (0.045 to 0.050), and the Monster Energy dragster ran 3.828 seconds at 332.79 mph to Ashley’s 3.943/292.85. The round-win set up the semifinals pairing against Steve Torrence.
 
Force again had lane choice in the semifinals but the engine clicked off at the conclusion of the burnout and her day was done.

The Top 10 in Top Fuel after four of six races in the 2025 NHRA Countdown to the Championship are:
1. Doug Kalitta 2,525 points
2. Justin Ashley 2,384 points
3. Shawn Langdon 2,366 points
4. Steve Torrence 2,297 points
5. Brittany Force 2,291 points
6. Tony Stewart 2,289 points
7. Clay Millikan 2,279 points
8. Shawn Reed 2,255 points
9. Antron Brown 2,242 points
10. Josh Hart 2,152 points

Round 19 of 20 of the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is the Oct. 30 – Nov. 2 NHRA Nevada Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.