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PEAK- Motorsports Update June 9 2025

PEAK Motorsports Update- June 9, 2025

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  • June 9, 2025

A quick "PEAK" into our Motorsports involvement and the results of related races!

NHRA: Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals- Bristol, TN

 

Monday, June 9, 2025: 

 

Qualifying promise morphed into race day disappointment Sunday for all three John Force Racing drivers competing in the 23rd NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Tennessee.

 

The only one able to advance beyond round one was two-time Top Fuel World Champion Brittany Force who, after struggling during qualifying, flashed the form that carried her to the winners’ circle last week at Epping, New Hampshire, in a first round victory over former European Top Fuel Champ Ida Zetterstrom.

 

Her 3.811 second, 330.39 mile per hour charge was the second quickest time of the opening round and her quickest of the weekend, but it just wasn’t quite good enough to earn her the choice of lanes in round two against Justin Ashley, whose first round 3.783 turned out to be the quickest of the race.

 

Against Ashley, the Monster Energy Dragster lost traction near the first of the “tunnel bumps” at Bristol, about 330 feet down track, slowing the 18-time tour winner to 4.925 seconds at only 160.40 mph and sending her into the next race in the Mission Series, the two-day NHRA Virginia Nationals, in sixth place in points.
Photo Credit: Gary Nastase, Auto Imagery

As frustrating as the day was for Brittany and her team, it was even more so for the Cornwell Tools and PEAK Funny Car teams. After qualifying number one and four respectively, Austin Prock and Jack Beckman were both out of competition after a single round. That’s something that had never happened since the two became teammates last August and it’s something that had not happened to two JFR Funny Car drivers since April 2, 2023, when John Force and Robert Hight were both eliminated in round one at the Winternationals.

 

After Prock lost to Buddy Hull for the second straight event in the opening round, Beckman was gifted with an opportunity to make up some ground in the point standings at the wheel of the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevy but couldn’t capitalize, losing to Funny Car rookie Julie Nataas, the former Top Alcohol Dragster World Champion.

 

The NHRA teams have Father’s Day weekend off before heading to Richmond, Virginia, for the NHRA Virginia Nationals, June 21-22.