John Force Racing–U.S. Nationals post race

Austin Prock Takes John Force Racing and Chevrolet to Second Consecutive U.S. Nationals Win Captures regular season Funny Car championship, and is victorious in the $120,000 to win All-Star Funny Car Call OutJack Beckman and Brittany Force both No. 1 qualifiers/Force sets all-time NHRA fastest record speed

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Austin Prock, defending NHRA Funny Car World Champion, won the 71^stCornwell Quality Tools NHRA U.S. Nationals piloting the Cornwell Quality Tools John Force Racing Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny CarIt is the second consecutive win of the pinnacle NHRA race held annually at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway ParkThe victory came over John Force Racing teammate Jack Beckman Beckman had the advantage off the line, but lost the tires about 60 feet out and started to pedal. Prock went down the groove with another great pass of 3.903 seconds/332.92 mph to take the winThis is Prock’s seventh Funny Car win of the season, the 15^th of his career and the 19th total national event winProck captured the regular season Funny Car championship and heads into the Countdown to the Championship as the No. 1 seedHe also won the $120,000 All-Star Call Out defeating Cruz Pedregon, Matt Hagan and Ron Capps that secured the No. 2 Qualifier spot heading into Sunday’s eliminationsIn Elimination Round One, Prock bested Julie Nataas with a pass of 3.883 seconds/333.66 mphRound two saw Prock gain the advantage over Bob Tasca III who shook the tires and cut it off. Prock posted a run of 3.894 seconds/332.92 mph Prock then beat Blake Alexander with another stellar run of 3.93 seconds/331.12 mph while Alexander smoked the tires to propel him to the finals against Beckman

Jack Beckman powered the Brute Force Tribute Peak Antifreeze John Force Racing Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car to the No. 1 qualifier spot for Monday’s US Nationals Final Eliminations.Beckman ran a 3.881 second/328.78 mph in Round One while opponent Justin Schriefer rolled through the box, turning the light red With a run of 3.920 seconds/330.47 mph against Paul Lee’s 3.946 seconds/300.26 mph to take the Round Two win light. Opponent Alexis DeJoria was out first, but went up in smoke in the Semi-Final while Beckman got 900 feet out and the car noses over, but he got the win, and moves on to the final round against teammate ProckThis is Beckman’s 76th career final round, the fourth this yearBeckman starts the Countdown as the No. 2 seed in Funny CarBrittany Force driving the Cornwell Quality Tools Chevrolet John Force Racing Top Fuel Dragster was the No. 1 qualifier in Top Fuel for the 71^strunning of the Cornwell Quality Tools US Nationals with another record run of 3.666-seconds at 339.79 mph, the fastest in track historyBut her run of 3.690 seconds/343.51 mph against Ida Zetterstrom in Round One Eliminations is the fastest pass in NHRA historyIn Round Two, the two-time NHRA Top Fuel Champion fell to Tripp Tatum when a mechanical issue shut off the car and popped the chutes right out of the boxForce enters the Countdown to the Championship as the fifth seed in Top FuelErica Enders snapped a 30-race winless streak and won her 50th national event after going 6.564 at 209.95 in her Johnson’s Horsepowered Garage/Melling Performance Chevrolet to hold off Matt Hartford.
UP NEXT:The 15th round of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series opens the Countdown to the Championship playoffs with the 40th annual NHRA Reading Nationals presented by Nitro Fish on Sept. 11-14 at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa.

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Post-Race Driver Quotes: AUSTIN PROCK, DRIVER OF THE CORNWELL TOOLS CHEVROLET CAMARO SS FUNNY CAR FOR JOHN FORCE RACING:“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.”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 Cornwell Quality Tools U.S Nationals again in our Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS, 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.”
JACK BECKMAN, DRIVER OF THE BRUTE FORCE PEAK PERFORMANCE CHEVY SS FUNNY CAR FOR JOHN FORCE RACING:“So, there’s no silver lining to this, right? You make it to a final round, you need to capitalize. Now, in the Countdown, if you tell me six runner-up finishes will get us the championship, sign me up for that. But nobody gets to the final round and says, ‘Ah if we lose, it’ll be okay’. It stings. “We did lose to our Cornwell Tools-sponsored teammate at the Cornwell Quality Tool Nationals so there is some silver lining, but it’s frustrating for us because we have a PEAK SQUAD Chevrolet SS good enough to win. And I was driving good today. “We’ll be back here to test all day tomorrow. We will unload a brand-new car, which will be our backup car. We just want to prove it, and we will go onto the Countdown and unload maybe be a little bit hungrier.”

BRITTANY FORCE, DRIVER OF CORNWELL QUALITY TOOLS CHEVROLET DRAGSTER FOR JOHN FORCE RACING:In the second round, it stuck the rear tire so hard off the step, that when it released, our automatic safety system put out the chutes and shut off the engine. I went to pedal the car and had no power. I would have loved a shot to chase down Tatum who got into trouble further down the track. Luckily, we will be testing here in tomorrow so we can prevent this from happening in the future. “Overall, we’ll look at the positives in the weekend: we qualified No. 1; we set the national speed record at 343.51 mph and we leave fifth in points going into the Countdown. Proud to have done all of that at the biggest race of the season, here in Indianapolis in Cornwell Quality Tools colors.”

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