ALEXIS DEJORIA
Driver of the John Force Racing Bandero Café Chevrolet SS Funny Car​


Countdown to the Championship Ranking: 7th (-76 points)

2025 Recap:
This event is a new addition to the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series schedule.

Last Event (Indianapolis):
Qualified sixth; Quarterfinal finish (defeated Chad Green in E1; defeated by Jack Beckman in E2)

2026 Statistics:
14 races; Two runner-up finishes; One Mission #2Fast2Tasty win

Career Statistics:

  • 268 races; six wins; six No. 1 qualifiers
  • Career-best E.T.: 3.854 seconds
  • Career-best speed: 337.41 mph

Notable:

  • DeJoria is making her 10th Countdown to the Championship appearance and first with John Force Racing
  • She begins the six-race playoffs ranked seventh in the standings and four competition rounds out of first place

Fan Events:

  • Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., John Force Racing driver autograph session, Cornwell Quality Tools midway display

Quotable:
“I’m going into this race after a well-rested week with my family in Scotland, surrounded by beautiful hills and scenery, and feeling recharged for the Countdown ahead. I am very much looking forward to racing at a new track that I’ve never been to. I think it’s exciting for the fans and the drivers and the teams as well to have a new track added to our circuit.

“It’s the first race of the Countdown. We managed to stay in there and our team did really well in the regular season. We just missed a few final-round Wallys, but we’re hoping to get that done in this last part of the season and finish strong in this first race of the Countdown.”

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