PEAK Motorsports Update- July 22, 2024

NHRA: Northwest NHRA Nationals- Norwalk

Monday, July 22, 2024:  Austin Prock completed a near perfect weekend at Pacific Raceways Sunday, driving his Cornwell Tools Chevrolet Camaro SS past Paul Lee’s Dodge in the final round to secure a wire-to-wire victory in the 35th NHRA Northwest Nationals. In becoming just the fourth driver to win the Northwest’s biggest drag race in both the Funny Car and Top Fuel categories, Prock earned the most points possible and will move on to this week’s Sonoma Nationals with a 256-point cushion over Bob Tasca III and Matt Hagan, who share second place with just three races remaining in the regular season.

The only thing the fourth-generation racer didn’t leave with was the 3.832 second track record set in 2015 by Del Worsham. He came close, though, twice accelerating through the 1000-foot course in 3.838 seconds. His Sunday sequence on a track known for its challenges, was 3.838, 3.880, 3.884 and 3.875, the latter coupled to a speed of 334.57 miles per hour.

It was another three-hat weekend for the former oval track and Top Fuel racer who, in addition to getting a red Mission Foods hat for qualifying No. 1 and a black one for winning Sunday’s main event, also got a yellow topper for his Saturday win in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge. Overall, Prock now has won five outright #2Fast2Tasty trophies and shared a sixth with J.R. Todd.

While it was not the “welcome back” result she had anticipated, getting back behind the wheel of her national record-holding Flav-R-Pac Top Fuel dragster was good therapy for Brittany in the aftermath of her dad’s 300 mph crash last month at Richmond, Va.

Force qualified in the No. 3 position but couldn’t duplicate her qualifying performance in round one where she was eliminated by eight-time series champ Tony Schumacher after her car slowed to 4.271 seconds at only 193.21 mph. Despite Sunday’s result, the 2013 NHRA Rookie of the Year stayed tenth in points and remained optimistic about her chances in the upcoming Countdown to the Championship. “This was a special weekend,” she said. “My dad’s at home watching (and) Frank Tiegs and Flav-R-Pac were on the car. We wanted to do well for them.”

The JFR Team continues the western leg of the season with the DENSO NHRA Sonoma Nationals, July 26-28, in Sonoma, California.