PEAK Motorsports Update- September 2, 2025

NHRA: Cornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals - Indianapolis, IN

Monday, September 2, 2025: 

All three John Force Racing entries left very positive marks on this year’s Cornwell Quality Tools US Nationals, but it was Austin Prock that not only left his mark but left Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park with a bagful of money and hardware.

Prock finished off a flawless weekend that netted the points leader $330,000, defeating John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman in the final round after a run of 3.903 at 332.92 in his 12,000-horsepower Cornwell Quality Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car.

A day after winning the All-Star Callout, Prock finished off the regular-season championship, netting $230,000 in the process. He added the $100,000 US Nationals victory for a second consecutive year, a feat not even his legendary team owner could accomplish, despite five US Nationals victories of his own.

Prock defeated Julie Nataas, Bob Tasca III and Blake Alexander on the way to the final-round matchup with Beckman and now has seven victories this season and an astonishing 15 wins in his last 32 Funny Car races. He also has 19 victories, with the majority coming during this impressive run over the past two seasons. Prock powered past Beckman in the final round, capturing another special Indy moment and taking the points lead into the Countdown to the Championship.

Prock’s big points lead will reset in the playoffs, but he enters the postseason as a dominant champ, winning back-to-back races and taking plenty of momentum into the postseason as he seeks a second straight world title.

Beckman, who was the number one qualifier driving a special ‘Brute Force’ PEAK Chevrolet SS for the event, drove to his fourth final round of 2025 after defeating Justin Scheiefer, Paul Lee and Alexis DeJoria. He’ll open the Countdown in second place behind his teammate Prock and ahead of World Champions Matt Hagan and Ron Capps.

In Top Fuel, Brittany Force earned her fifth US Nationals number one qualifying position (2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025), putting her against number 16 qualifier Ida Zetterström in Monday’s first round of elimination. Force and the Cornwell Quality Tools team posted a lap of 3.690 seconds, the third-quickest run of the event to that point, to dispatch Zetterström and move on to the second round. On top of that, the speed, 343.51 mph, was the fastest run in NHRA history, surpassing the 343.16 mph run she made July 25, 2025, at Sonoma Raceway in California.

In Round 2, the two-time NHRA Top Fuel Champion (2017, 2022) led Tripp Tatum by one-hundredth-of-a-second (0.063 to 0.073) but the run went awry immediately after. What was initially thought to be loss of traction turned out to be something completely different: the engine’s horsepower hit so hard that it activated the safety system that automatically shuts off the engine and deploys the parachutes, ending her day.

The Countdown to the NHRA Mission Foods Championship begins with the 40th Annual NHRA Reading Nationals Presented by Nitro Fish, September 19-21st at Maple Grove Raceway in Mohnton, Pennsylvania.