Photography: John Force Racing / Gary Nastase / Auto Imagery
CONCORD, N.C. (Sept. 19, 2025) – Brittany Force drove her HendrickCars.com Top Fuel dragster to low elapsed time of the day with a run of 3.698 seconds at 338.85 mph in Friday night qualifying for the NHRA Mission Foods NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, N.C.
Her John Force Racing teammates, Austin Prock and Jack Beckman, qualified second and 13th, respectively, in Funny Car. Prock’s Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS ran 3.900 seconds at 327.74 mph in the night session while Beckman’s best run in the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS, 4.109 seconds at 260.97 mph, was made in the afternoon session.
The final two rounds of qualifying are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20, at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m. ET. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Sunday, Sept. 21.
Quotes from Brittany Force, HendrickCars.com Tools Top Fuel Dragster:
“I don’t know why I had a good feeling about it. I saw the cars out ahead of us going low 3.70s and I don’t know why 3.69 popped in my head. We’ve done it before and I felt like we could do it in the HendrickCars.com car, and they told me 3.69 down there on the top end. Sometimes the driver is just in tune and knows what we’re aiming to run.
“This is such a beautiful facility. To pull up here and it’s dark out, you’ve got lights going all the way down the racetrack and then just to see these cars go down the track, flames coming out of the headers, there’s nothing like it. It’s still exciting for me and especially to be in the car.”
Quotes from Austin Prock, Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car:
“It was a good day overall for the Cornwell Tools team. We were low in the first session, then second quick in the second session, and it was not a perfect run by any means. We had a lot of issues going on and still put up a good enough number to take the second spot. So, I’m happy with that. I kept it in the middle of the groove both runs today so I was proud of that. It had dropped a couple cylinders and was only on six cylinders for most of the second run. So, to still run 9 flat (3.900 seconds) says a lot about this team. We’ll keep picking away at it and get it dialed in more tomorrow and then we’ll be ready to go on Sunday.
“I don’t know what time we run tomorrow but how quick we run really just depends on cloud cover. If we get some cloud cover, we should be able to run an 89, I would say. But even if we roll into Sunday qualified second, we’ll be happy with that. We’ve won a lot from second place this year. So, yeah, overall, a good day and looking forward to tomorrow. We’re going to have Mr. H (NASCAR championship team owner and HendrickCars.com owner Rick Hendrick) in the house and hope we can make a few more nice passes for him.”
Quotes from Jack Beckman, PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car:
“We don’t normally leave Friday qualifying in 13th place, having not made it to the finish line. In the first run, we put a cylinder out and shut it off early. And then in the second run, our 60-foot time was the quickest out there, our 330 was the quickest out there and our PEAK SQUAD Chevy was already spinning the tires at 270 feet. We were pushing hard, and we were trying to run an 85 or 86. You learn lessons, right? An 89 or 88 would have got us the pole position there. But we made it far enough down the track to learn something. Now, tomorrow’s going to be very different conditions than the night run tonight, probably more similar to what we’ll see in eliminations on Sunday. So, we’ll back it down a little bit. I think there’s still enough space for us to slide into the top half of qualifying tomorrow, but we’re going to push as hard as we think the racetrack will take and try to get some bonus points.”
TV Schedule (all times Eastern)
Television coverage on Sunday, Sept. 21, includes qualifying action on FS1 at 10 a.m. and then live coverage eliminations at 12 p.m.
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CONCORD, N.C. (Sept. 19, 2025) – Brittany Force drove her HendrickCars.com Top Fuel dragster to low elapsed time of the day with a run of 3.698 seconds at 338.85 mph in Friday night qualifying for the NHRA Mission Foods NHRA 4-Wide Carolina Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, N.C.
Her John Force Racing teammates, Austin Prock and Jack Beckman, qualified second and 13th, respectively, in Funny Car. Prock’s Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS ran 3.900 seconds at 327.74 mph in the night session while Beckman’s best run in the PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS, 4.109 seconds at 260.97 mph, was made in the afternoon session.
The final two rounds of qualifying are scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20, at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m. ET. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Sunday, Sept. 21.
Quotes from Brittany Force, HendrickCars.com Tools Top Fuel Dragster:
“I don’t know why I had a good feeling about it. I saw the cars out ahead of us going low 3.70s and I don’t know why 3.69 popped in my head. We’ve done it before and I felt like we could do it in the HendrickCars.com car, and they told me 3.69 down there on the top end. Sometimes the driver is just in tune and knows what we’re aiming to run.
“This is such a beautiful facility. To pull up here and it’s dark out, you’ve got lights going all the way down the racetrack and then just to see these cars go down the track, flames coming out of the headers, there’s nothing like it. It’s still exciting for me and especially to be in the car.”
Quotes from Austin Prock, Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car:
“It was a good day overall for the Cornwell Tools team. We were low in the first session, then second quick in the second session, and it was not a perfect run by any means. We had a lot of issues going on and still put up a good enough number to take the second spot. So, I’m happy with that. I kept it in the middle of the groove both runs today so I was proud of that. It had dropped a couple cylinders and was only on six cylinders for most of the second run. So, to still run 9 flat (3.900 seconds) says a lot about this team. We’ll keep picking away at it and get it dialed in more tomorrow and then we’ll be ready to go on Sunday.
“I don’t know what time we run tomorrow but how quick we run really just depends on cloud cover. If we get some cloud cover, we should be able to run an 89, I would say. But even if we roll into Sunday qualified second, we’ll be happy with that. We’ve won a lot from second place this year. So, yeah, overall, a good day and looking forward to tomorrow. We’re going to have Mr. H (NASCAR championship team owner and HendrickCars.com owner Rick Hendrick) in the house and hope we can make a few more nice passes for him.”
Quotes from Jack Beckman, PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS Funny Car:
“We don’t normally leave Friday qualifying in 13th place, having not made it to the finish line. In the first run, we put a cylinder out and shut it off early. And then in the second run, our 60-foot time was the quickest out there, our 330 was the quickest out there and our PEAK SQUAD Chevy was already spinning the tires at 270 feet. We were pushing hard, and we were trying to run an 85 or 86. You learn lessons, right? An 89 or 88 would have got us the pole position there. But we made it far enough down the track to learn something. Now, tomorrow’s going to be very different conditions than the night run tonight, probably more similar to what we’ll see in eliminations on Sunday. So, we’ll back it down a little bit. I think there’s still enough space for us to slide into the top half of qualifying tomorrow, but we’re going to push as hard as we think the racetrack will take and try to get some bonus points.”
TV Schedule (all times Eastern)
Television coverage on Sunday, Sept. 21, includes qualifying action on FS1 at 10 a.m. and then live coverage eliminations at 12 p.m.
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