John Force Racing team cars dominate Funny Car field at Indy US Nationals…

Austin Prock finished off a near 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 Cornwell Quality Tools Chevrolet SS.

A day after winning the PlayNHRA All-Star Callout, Prock finished off the regular-season championship, with those two wins handing Prock $230,000. He added the $100,000 U.S. Nationals victory for a second straight year, continuing a remarkable season that may be even more dominant than last year’s championship season.

Prock, who defeated Julie Nataas, Bob Tasca III and Blake Alexander earlier in the day, now has seven victories this season and an unbelievable 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.

“To win Indy in my rookie season (in Funny Car) was obviously really special. We came out guns blazing, and it just put a little bit of an extra pep in our step, and to go out there and execute and do the job and have a dominant performance like we did last year, and then to come back again this year and do it is just surreal,” Prock said.
 
“It was a dream of mine to win a championship, but you never know if that’s going to happen. So many stars have to align. You have to get the right opportunity. You have to be surrounded by the right people. You have to have the right sponsors backing you. So, to get a U.S. Nationals win last year and then win the championship, and then come back and win the U.S Nationals again, I don’t even know what to say. You know, they say when you win the U.S. Nationals once, it puts you in an elite group. When you do it back-to-back, it’s an even more elite group.”

Beckman, who was the No. 1 qualifier, drove to his fourth final round of 2025 after defeating Justin Scheiefer, Paul Lee and Alexis DeJoria. He’ll open the playoffs second in points, with Matt Hagan in third.

Cornwall Quality Tool NHRA US National Funny Car Class Summary

WIN: Austin Prock – 3.903 secs 332.92 mph (Career win #19)
R/UP: Jack Beckman – 4.553 secs 236.09 mph
Low ET: Jack Beckman – 3.865 secs
Top MPH: Bob Tasca III – 337.24 mph
Bump: 4.103
Entries – 19 cars

US Nationals Funny Car Speciality Races

Sunday’s race schedule included the annual PlayNHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout.

Austin Prock took that final with a 3.873, 333.00 mph decision over Ron Capps who ran 4.048, 302.01 mph. Prock had defeated Cruz Pedregon and Matt Hagan in rounds #1 & 2.

Saturday’s Funny Car class racing featured the final Mission Foods #2Fast2Tasty series race for 2025.

For that — J.R. Todd driving the Kalitta Motorsports/DHL Toyota defeated Austin Prock in a wild final round when the points leader and reigning world champion went red.

That handed the victory to Todd (photo below) — his second specialty race win of the year. Todd had defeated Jack Beckman in round one while Austin had topped Chad Green in that 4-car shootout.

Posted with files by NHRA Communications & Bruce Biegler
Photos by Dave DeAngelis & Steve Embling

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