Photography: John Force Racing / Gary Nastase / Auto Imagery
BROWNSBURG, IND. (Aug. 31, 2025) – John Force Racing collectively ran the table Sunday at the NHRA Mission Foods Cornwell Quality Tools U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, with Brittany Force and Jack Beckman earning the No. 1 Qualifier spots in Top Fuel and Funny Car, respectively, and Austin Prock grabbing the trophy and the $80,000 winner’s check in the PlayNHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout.
Prock defeated Cruz Pedregon and Matt Hagan in the Callout with runs of 3.907 seconds and 3.910 seconds but saved his best run of the week for the final round against Ron Capps, whom he beat for last year’s U.S. Nationals title. Capps got the holeshot but the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car was soon ahead and pulling away at the lights with a run of 3.873 seconds at 333.00 mph to Capp’s 4.048 and 302.01. The run also moved Prock to second in the qualifying order for Monday’s eliminations.
“Driving for Cornwell Tools, you always want to take out your sponsor’s competitors. We raced Cruz this morning, so we had ‘Tools Wars’ this morning first round and then worked out to where we had a Tool War in the final against Ron Capps,” Prock said. “So anytime we turn on the win light, it’s exciting, but when you’re racing against one of your sponsor’s competitors, and you can turn on the win light, it tastes a little better. So, all the people at Cornwall Tools were definitely stoked that we got the job done.”
The reigning 2024 NHRA Funny Car Champion also clinched the 2025 regular season championship, and with it a $150,000 bonus, running his Sunday total to $230,000.
Prock will line up against No. 15 qualifier Julie Nataas (4.099, 279.85) in Monday’s first round of eliminations.
Force earned her fourth No. 1 Qualifier of the season and fifth career U.S. Nationals low elapsed time (2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025) with Friday’s night session run of 3.666 seconds at 339.79 mph. Her Cornwell Quality Tools Top Fuel Dragster also had passes at 3.779 seconds at 337.41 mph (Q3 Saturday afternoon) and 3.767 seconds at 338.85 mph (Q4 Sunday afternoon).
“We feel ready and confident going into race day tomorrow,” Force said. “You can’t look at all the excitement that is Indy. For me, it’s just, it’s no different than when we were running in Brainerd last weekend, or two weeks from now when we’ll be running in Reading. Our focus is always one run at a time, and we want to win everywhere we go. It doesn’t matter what racetrack we’re at or what event is happening. We always want to win.
“Now, the U.S. Nationals? Yes, this is a special one. This is on everybody’s bucket list. Everybody wants to win here, especially our Cornwell Quality Tools team.”
Force will face No. 16 qualifier Ida Zetterstrum in Monday’s first round of eliminations.
Beckman’s Friday night qualifying lap of 3.865 seconds at 332.26 mph in the Brute Force PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS established the Funny Car benchmark throughout the extended five rounds of qualifying.
In the PlayNHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout, the two-time NHRA Funny Car Champion took out Bob Tasca III in a close first-round matchup (3.951 seconds at 332.02 mph versus 3.972 and 322.43). He lost lane choice to Capps for the semifinals and had a strong run going until the the crankshaft broke right before the lights. Capps ran 3.912 seconds at 333.33 mph to Beckman’s 3.993 and 282.012.
“We broke the crankshaft in half,” said Beckman. “I heard Jason Galvin announcing and it looked like maybe the car spun the tires because you saw one of the holes go dead. No, it was way worse than that. It snapped the crankshaft in half down there. But, if there’s a silver lining on that, it didn’t happen Monday on race day. So, we put another engine in it went out in the final round of qualifying and pushed hard trying to get bonus points. Our numbers looked great until it spun the tires, but we know exactly what we need to do for race day. And tomorrow’s going to be exceptionally quick first round because we’re starting an hour early (at 10 a.m. ET).
Beckman will go up against No. 16 qualifier Justin Schriefer (4.103, 280.78) in the first round of eliminations.
Track & TV Schedules
Final eliminations are scheduled for 10 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept 1.
Coverage of Monday’s elimination rounds begins at 12 p.m. ET on FS1 and shifting to FOX at 2 p.m. ET.
