Matt Hagan, driver of the TSR Direct Connection Dodge//SRT Hellcat Funny Car:​

  • Q1 on Friday was canceled due to a shortened day with weather
  • The second qualifying session on Friday was canceled due to rain
  • Q3 on Saturday was canceled due to a shortened day with weather
  • The second qualifying session on Saturday was canceled due to rain. With the cancelation of qualifying, the ladder was set based upon championship points standings coming into the event, which had Stewart qualify in the No. 5 position.
  • Eliminations at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals were canceled due to adverse weather and unsafe track conditions.
  • Finished second in the Funny Car championship standings, 101 points behind champion Austin Prock
  • Hagan has now won at least three tour events in 13 consecutive seasons, which is the longest active streak in the sport and the second longest in history (John Force won three or more events in 18 straight seasons from 1990 through 2007). Hagan’s 2025 wins came at the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Kent, Washington, the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis, and the NHRA Nevada Nationals in Las Vegas.
  • Hagan entered the season finale with 18 wins in Countdown races, the most among Funny Car drivers and second most overall behind only Pro Stock veteran Greg Anderson (19).
  • Hagan earned Tony Stewart Racing’s first Funny Car championship at the 2023 In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals. It marked Hagan’s fourth Funny Car championship, where he became just the fourth Funny Car driver to win as many as four championships after John Force, Kenny Bernstein and Don Prudhomme. Hagan will remain in search of his fifth World Championship.
  • The In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals concludes Stewart’s second season in the Top Fuel Dragster class. Next year, Leah Pruett returns to the TSR Top Fuel Dragster after stepping aside to start a family with Stewart. Stewart will move to the Elite Motorsports Top Fuel Dragster seat.
  • Pruett and Stewart’s son Dominic James Stewart celebrated his first birthday at the NHRA Finals. Dom was born one year ago on race day at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip.

“As a competitor, you want to run this thing out, but I think we just wanted our shot to go for the championship. We wanted to fight for the championship that we have been working towards all year long. The end result was they (Austin Prock) were three rounds ahead of us. The NHRA came to our team owner, our marketing partners, and the crew and asked what we wanted to do today. The decision was made across the board that this was the proper decision with the weather. It was best for safety with the sand trap full of water and it definitely stings. You come here to Pomona as a competitor, and you want to have a shot at the title. We just ask for that opportunity and we had that. Mother Nature didn’t give us that chance this weekend. It would be awful to see someone go out and crash a car or get hurt. It just wasn’t meant to be. But, overall, for our new crew chief (Mike Knudsen) to have to call all of the shots and at all of the races and his note pad was all new at all of the racetracks. Mike had to make those ‘gut’ decisions and to win three races and finish second in the championship was a great season. I’m super proud of all of my crew guys as they are wrenching on the car and the car was solid all year. The whole crew is coming back for 2026 and I’m very excited about that. I know what we just did as a first-year team and I’m very excited for the future.”


















































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