PEAK Motorsports Update- September 22, 2025

NHRA: NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals - Concord, NC

Monday, September 22, 2025: 

Austin Prock overcame illness and a full field of competitors gunning for the points leader en route to his eighth victory of the season, a sweep of the season’s three four-wide races and his third consecutive win at zMax Dragway in Sunday’s NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals.

John Force Racing teammates Brittany Force and Jack Beckman bowed out in Round 2 of the three-round four-wide format.

The reigning NHRA Mission Foods Funny Car Champion ran 3.912 seconds at 332.43 mph to defeat Matt Hagan’s run of 3.952 seconds at 324.12 mph, as well as the slowing car of Daniel Wilkerson and the red-lighting Chad Green. The Carolina Nationals victory was Prock’s 16^th in just his second year of Funny Car competition and 20^th overall (four in Top Fuel).

Beckman set low E.T. in his first-round matchup with a run of 3.939 seconds at 328.46 mph over second-place finisher Matt Hagan’s 3.949 seconds at 327.74 mph. The two had the first two lane choice picks in the second round against Spencer Hyde (3.944 seconds) and Chad Green (3.975 seconds).

The 2012 NHRA Funny Car Champion again ran 3.939 seconds at 325.69 mph in Round 2, but a 0.138 reaction time nullified the quickest run of his four-wide race, allowing Hagan (3.963 seconds) and Green (4.011 seconds) to advance to the final round.

With four races remaining, Austin Prock leads the Funny Car standings by 79 points over Matt Hagan, Ron Capps, and Jack Beckman, who are less than one round apart from second to fourth position.

Brittany Force earned her 57^th career number one qualifying position in Top Fuel, opened race day with low E.T. of her four-wide race at 3.758 seconds and 338.34 mph to advance to the second quad. Tony Stewart also advanced to the second round with a run of 3.766 seconds at 326.79 mph. Force earned first lane choice for Round 2 against Stewart, Shawn Langdon (3.792 seconds), and Justin Ashley (3.811 seconds).

In Round 2, the two-time NHRA Top Fuel Champion cut an 0.066 light, second-best of the race, and ran 3.773 seconds at 338.26 mph, the second-quickest run of the race. However, the round winner was Ashley who had the slowest elapsed time (3.788 seconds) but the quickest reaction time (0.036), while Langdon cut an 0.068 light and ran 3.761 seconds to earn the right to move on to the final round.

Force moved up one position in the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Top Fuel point standings and is now in sixth place after the second of six rounds in the Countdown to the Championship.

Round 17 of 20 of the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is September 26-28^th with the NAPA Auto Parts NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois.