PEAK Motorsports Update- April 14, 2025

NHRA: NHRA 4-Wide Nationals- Las Vegas, NV

Monday, April 14, 2025: 

Austin Prock put early season struggles behind him Sunday, re-establishing his Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS as a dominant Funny Car and becoming the first driver in history to win four-wide events in the NHRA’s two signature categories.

The No. 2 qualifier in the west coast version of an event that originated at ZMax Dragway in Charlotte, N.C., 15 years ago, Prock posted the quickest time during eliminations at 3.964 seconds but slowed to 4.009 seconds in the final quad, reaching the stripe just ahead of No. 1 qualifier Paul Lee.

In outracing Lee, Dave Richards and Matt Hagan to the finish in the final quad, he earned a bookend for the four-wide win he secured at Charlotte in 2023 while driving a John Force Racing Top Fuel dragster.

It was the 29-year-old Funny Car phenom’s first winners’ celebration of the new season and it propelled him into the No. 3 position in Mission Foods’ points behind Lee and JFR teammate Jack Beckman, who suffered his first opening round loss since taking the reins of the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevy, which this week was flying the colors of Graham Rahal Performance, from an injured Force.

Two-time Top Fuel World Champion Brittany Force also failed to advance after qualifying her GRP dragster second in the field and posting top speed of the event at 333.16 miles per hour, well off her track record speed of 338.17 mph. Brittany, too, remained upbeat despite the disappointing result on a track on which she had won five times previously, more than on any other in the series.

The JFR Team is off this upcoming weekend, but will be back in action from April 25-27 at the zMax Dragway for the American Rebel Light NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.