North American Motorsports legend Tony Stewart collects first NHRA Top Fuel eliminator national event title…

Racing legend Tony Stewart picked up his first career NHRA Top Fuel win at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, defeating a quad that included reigning world champion Antron Brown, Jasmine Salinas and Justin Ashley at the 25th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals.

Austin Prock (Funny Car) and Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock) also won the fourth of 20 races during the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.

Stewart went 3.870-seconds at 317.42 mph in his Rayce Rudeen Foundation Dodge//SRT dragster to hold off Brown at the finish line, claiming his first career victory in the Top Fuel ranks and adding to the Hall of Famer’s long list of accolades. The former world champion in the NASCAR and IndyCar ranks won NHRA Rookie of the Year honors a year ago, and then went to the final round two weeks ago in Pomona before racing to the victory on Sunday in Las Vegas.

The team had performed well early in the season and then added to it in Las Vegas, qualifying fifth and then winning both of the first two quads on holeshots. He quickly tracked down Ashley and then Salinas, getting by Brown just before the finish line to claim a memorable win. He’s now won at every track on the property at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Stewart was certainly thrilled with Sunday’s result.

Tony Stewart has now full-filled his transition to Professional drag racing – winning his first NHRA Top Fuel event.

“It’s unreal. I haven’t been around the NHRA that long and I realize it takes a long time to win a race in this series, but everything in my career, I never had to wait over a year to win a race. I always figured it out in the first year, and multiple ones normally, so I’m just very appreciative of this win,” Stewart said.

“Last year was so stressful after Leah (Pruett, wife) almost won a world championship, and I get in the car last year, and the people in the stands think I’m the reason the car sucks. It wasn’t that we had bad people tuning on it, it was just it was a different combination. There were different variables that change my body weight is different, tubing changes from rules changes but it was still really frustrating we could not get on a path to where we could make gains last year.”

Tony Stewart celebrates with his wife Leah and their newborn first son Dom!

Brown finished as the runner-up, going 3.912 at 302.35 in the final round. Stewart moved up to second points with the historic victory, while Shawn Langdon stayed as the leader in the category.

Defending Funny Car world champ Austin Prock returned to championship form on Sunday in Las Vegas, picking up his first win of the season with a run of 4.009 at 316.01 in his 12,000-horsepower Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS to hold off a quad that featured runner-up Paul Lee, Matt Hagan and Dave Richards.

Prock dominated at Las Vegas in the fall to all but clinch his first world championship, but the team made major changes on the car in the off-season. It was a struggle to open the year, falling in the opening round in Gainesville, but the team has slowly gained momentum and it was capped off by a sterling performance in Vegas. He made the quickest run in eliminations, going 3.964 at 322.88 in an impressive semifinal victory and then finished it off with another terrific run in the championship round.

Defending world champ Austin Prock returned to his championship form – winning in Funny Car.

“We haven’t had the success that we had last year, but we’re still the same team,” Prock said. “We always expect to show up and win. We want to go set low E.T. every round, and we want to win every race, so when we’re not doing that, it’s hard to keep your head up when things aren’t going right, especially when your expectations are so high. So, for all of us to come together is great.

“It feels really good, man. Opening up in Gainesville, it just wasn’t a great weekend and we just struggled in Pomona after a good weekend in Phoenix, but just couldn’t put it all together. You just want to hold one of these Wally [trophies] again because you don’t know how long it’s going to take before you win another one.”

Lee finished as the runner-up thanks to his run of 4.042 at 311.77. It his second final round of the year, as he jumped into the points lead as well. Prock moved to third in points after winning for the second time in Las Vegas.

In Pro Stock, Las Vegas continues to be very good to standout Dallas Glenn, as he won against a final quad that featured points leader Greg Anderson, Matt Hartford and Matt Latino on a holeshot, going 6.649 at 206.83 in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro to win for the second time this season. It’s also his third victory at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, as Glenn used a strong .030 reaction time to hold off Hartford, who finished second with a 6.638 at 205.85.

It’s the 15th career victory for Glenn and his third four-wide win as well, as Glenn finished second in the opening-round quad before winning the second-round quad with a run of 6.636 at 206.32. He’s been in every final round this season and continued his hot start to the 2025 campaign, one that is shaping up very well for Glenn, a former NHRA Rookie of the Year who finished second a year ago to Anderson.

Dallas Glenn took the RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro to his 15th career NHRA event win.

“I’m really thrilled. Today was a very interesting day, I almost completely blew it in the first round. I was staging, and when I fired the car up my nose started to bleed, so I was dealing with that inside the car,” Glenn said. “That was an issue.

“I don’t know what I was looking at, but I didn’t see lane two stage, and just didn’t go on to the two-step until right before the tree came down. I was way late, just dead late, and got lucky enough with the horsepower to get the win. I still made a decent run going into second round and then the clutch pedal felt weird on my foot when I went on to the two-step and kind of overcompensated there.

“Then I go into the final and made sure that I held it down, and probably held it down a little too hard. Greg was on his way to earning his next one until the luck streak ended for him. But, you know, it’s a good day. The car is working great. I didn’t do too bad, but, you know, at the end, and you’ve only got to do good enough.”

Hartford recorded his first runner-up of the season, winning his quad during the second round as well. Anderson will remain in the points lead after four races, with Glenn right behind in second.

Saturday’s event racing schedule at Las Vegas did include the latest round for the highly popular Mission #2Fast#Tasty Challenge – specialty event.

In the final pass of Saturday it was Doug Kalitta who picked up the win when he rolled to the No. 1 position for qualifying at 3.730 secs at 331.04 mph.

Doug Kalitta enjoyed Saturday at Las Vegas — winning the Mission #2Fast#Tasty Challenge & qualifying #1

For Funny Car it was Spencer Hyde and in Pro Stock it was Dallas Glenn who also emerged victorious.

Spencer Hyde (from Stratford Ontario) and racing in only his 4th start in the FC category, had a run of 3.968 at 318.54 driving the Head Contractors & Engineers Ford Mustang to hit pay dirt early for his NHRA career.

(Editor’s Note: For more detail on Spencer Hyde’s first fuel FC victory link to our LMLC Media co-production site coverage : HERE)

High aspiring Canadian rookie racer Spencer Hyde earned his first FC class win during the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge event.

Dallas Glenn won a thrilling Pro Stock final winning over KB Titan Racing teammate Greg Anderson on a holeshot with a run of 6.637 at 206.13 mph in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro.

The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series next returns to action April 25-27 with the 15th annual NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte.

Lucas Oil Lowdown
(Sportsman Racing Final Round Results)

Defending NHRA Lucas Oil World Champion Shawn Cowie – from British Columbia, won the event for the 3rd year in a row for TAD!

Top Alcohol Dragster — Shawn Cowie, 5.271, 275.39 def. Matthew Cummings, 5.343, 271.79 and Mitch Myers, 5.505, 262.39 and Joey Severance, 6.337, 117.33;

Top Alcohol Funny Car — Madison Gordon, Chevy Camaro, 5.523, 264.60 def. Brian Hough, Camaro, 5.548, 262.95 and Ray Martin, Camaro, 5.651, 255.29 and Annie Whiteley, Camaro, 8.041, 115.84;

Competition Eliminator — Taylor Chomiski, Chevy Cobalt, no time, no speed (took the tree) was unopposed.

Taylor Chomiski (who is son to Canadian Drag Racing Hall of Fame member Gary Chomiski – circa 2024) – won in Competition eliminator.

Super Stock — Chad Guilford, Ford Mustang, 8.631, 160.02 def. Justin Lamb, Chevy Camaro, Foul – Red Light.

Stock Eliminator — Scott Burton, Ford Mustang, 10.038, 134.95 def. David McGaugh, Chevy Camaro, Foul – Red Light.

Super Comp — Kris Whitfield, Dragster, 9.055, 174.01 def. Cooper Chun, Dragster, 9.036, 158.00.

Super Gas — Ken Mostowich, Chevy Corvette, 10.060, 155.02 def. Mark Philbrick, Ford Mustang, 10.034, 162.96.

Super Street — Larry Paden, Chevy S-10, 11.093, 135.58 def. Nick Pressimone, Chevy Nova, 11.109, 127.22.

Top Sportsman — Bryan Warr, Chevy Camaro, 6.824, 200.89 def. Ed Olpin, Camaro, 7.098, 193.10.

Top Dragster — Steve Will, Dragster, 6.125, 234.04 def. John Richardson, Dragster, Broke.

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Photos Courtesy of NHRA – Winlight Commuications – DRC file photo by David Ostaszewski