INDIANAPOLIS — After one other dominant season within the NHRA Mission Meals Drag Racing Sequence, Humorous Automotive star Austin Prock claimed his second consecutive world championship with John Pressure Racing.
Prock and his crew gained 9 occasions all through the season, together with two occasions through the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, up from the eight he gained final season. After a record-breaking 12 months in 2024, one which included 15 No. 1 qualifiers, Prock and his crew someway discovered one other stage, profitable extra races in solely his sophomore 12 months within the class.
In two years within the Humorous Automotive class, Prock has powered to 17 victories and 22 No. 1 qualifiers, placing collectively an epic stretch that ranks extremely in most spectacular Humorous Automotive runs.
That crew was led by Prock’s father, Jimmy, a longtime nitro tuner within the NHRA ranks, alongside together with his brother Thomas.
Shortly after the season, the Procks introduced they’d be leaving John Pressure Racing previous to subsequent season.
“What my household and this crew have achieved within the final two years is one thing you possibly can’t write up,” stated Prock. The crew is led by Prock’s father, Jimmy, a longtime nitro tuner within the NHRA ranks, alongside together with his brother Thomas.
“Final 12 months, lots of people instructed me it’s not going to come back as simply subsequent 12 months. The season that you just had in 2024 it’s not doable once more. And we are available there and we struggled slightly bit at the start of the season, after which ended up getting yet another win all through the NHRA schedule. I feel that claims so much about this race crew, says so much about me as a driver and I’m trying ahead to 2026 already.”
Prock’s 2025 marketing campaign began on the NHRA Gatornationals at famed Gainesville Raceway with a first-round loss. He suffered one other first-round elimination in Pomona however swept the April four-wide races in Las Vegas and Charlotte.
The most important little bit of adversity got here in June when he suffered back-to-back first-round losses in Epping and Bristol. In true championship trend, he shrugged these off and answered emphatically with back-to-back wins in Richmond and Norwalk. He collected extra wins in Sonoma and Brainerd earlier than heading to the distinguished Cornwell High quality Instruments NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.
Indy introduced a large payday for Prock when he secured the PlayNHRA Humorous Automotive All-Star Callout win, NHRA common season championship and the race win on Monday, giving him a weekend price a whopping $330,000.
Coming into the Countdown to the Championship because the factors chief, Prock rapidly nabbed wins in Charlotte and Dallas earlier than ending runner-up to Matt Hagan in Las Vegas.
Hagan made a worthy cost late within the season, however Prock’s unbelievable physique of labor was onerous to disregard and proved to be the distinction within the Countdown en path to a second world championship. Prock joined Ron Capps as the one Humorous Automotive drivers since 2002 to win back-to-back world titles, getting into elite territory with no indicators of slowing down.
“It’s superior to win one world championship. It’s one factor to win one and it’s one other factor to win two, however to win them back-to-back places you in a choose group,” Prock stated. “I feel there are solely seven of us who’ve ever achieved it. So as to add my title to that checklist, I want my total crew may very well be added to that checklist as a result of I get all of the reward and the glory from the media, from the followers and the TV side of it, but it surely’s not simply me.
“I couldn’t accomplish what we’ve achieved with out the individuals behind me for the previous two years. I’m actually proud to drive their race automotive.”
