New England is Conquered by Britany and Her Monster!!

Apping, New Hampshire (June 1, 2025) – Brittany Force, who was let down by her opening round loss two weeks ago at Chicago—a stumble that briefly prevented her from reaching the milestone of 300 NHRA rounds won—reacted Sunday as one would expect from a two-time Top Fuel World Champion. She won the 12th NHRA New England Nationals at New England Dragway by prevailing over No. 1 qualifier Doug Kalitta and point leader Tony Stewart in the final two rounds.
Wrestling her Monster Energy dragster across the finish line in 3.694 seconds at a thunderous 340.39 miles per hour in the last round, the second youngest drag racing daughter of John Force beat Stewart by.007 of a second. “This is just a big one,” she informed.

I wanted to win so I could join my dad in the winner’s circle, because that was the last time we did that. Since he was hurt in a crash at Richmond, Virginia, at 300 mph a year ago, this one is for him and all he’s been through. We’re so proud of him, and I’m simply glad to have him out here because it has been really challenging.

We need him to come out here. The team owner was overjoyed to announce his daughter’s victory and express his joy at being able to share in her celebration in the winner’s circle.

I was rooting for her to finish it. The entire Monster Energy crew deserves a round of applause. Today, the automobile was doing exceptionally well. She set two of the fastest lap times in Top Fuel history, and it went down the track on every run in eliminations. “It was a dominating win,” exclaimed the 16-time Funny Car champion.

It was quite awesome that she brought up the fact that this was the race I won last year; it added a lot of significance. She’s rocking it for Monster, HendrickCars.com, PEAK, Cornwell Tools, GRP, and every single sponsor who backs JFR.

During her 12-year professional career, Brittany won the trophy for the 18th time, tying her with Shirley Muldowney for the most event victories by a woman in the sport’s signature class. She also became the 12th Top Fuel driver in the 75-year history of the NHRA series to win 300 rounds.

After that, she added icing on the cake by beating Kalitta in the semifinals at an unprecedented 341.42 mph, which was just shy of the 341.59 mph NHRA national record she established in April of last year in Charlotte, N.C.

This was her second victory at New England Dragway, the all-concrete track where she won her maiden championship in 2017.
When Force declared, “I’m feeling optimistic (and) believe we have a good shot at picking up our first win of the season” at the end of qualifying on Saturday night, it was almost as if she had revealed the outcome.

On Sunday night, the 38-year-old and his Monster Energy team, which was headed by David Grubic and John Collins, achieved their goal. At the 23rd NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals this week in Bristol, Tennessee, she will begin the qualifying process in fifth place, 164 points behind Stewart and less than 100 points behind Shawn Langdon, who is in second place.

It was inevitable, the 2013 Rookie of the Year beaming, “and I’m so proud of all these guys,” he said. Everything seemed different on race day; our entire squad was in a fantastic mood. The story was fantastic: Tony had won five consecutive finals and was now facing a Force in the championship match.

This is nothing new, Grubnic assured me before the run. This is your victory. Do something fun. That brought me full around to the original purpose of our work.

We adore it. Like my dad always says, you have to drive emotionally. Even though Austin Prock and Jack Beckman still finished 1-2 in the Mission Foods driver standings, the JFR Funny Car contingent had a poor and costly day. Once again, Prock got scorched by the unpredictable antics of a Cornwell Tools Chevy SS that has taken on a hybrid character.

He upset No. 16 qualifier Buddy Hull in the first round of the race after qualifying first for the seventeenth time in twenty-seven starts since switching from Top Fuel to Funny Car. The reason his national record-holding Chevy lost traction was puzzling.

Regarding the result, Prock expressed his frustration. And so are all of us. I can assure you that neither you nor anyone on my team was prepared for that.
We don’t lose control when we hit. Tell me when was the last time that happened. According to him, “I got it to recover (but) it just wasn’t enough,” so they will regroup and travel to Bristol. Undoubtedly, this hurts.

We were in a prime position to go to the final round and challenge for a repeat victory with our fantastic race car and favorable weather conditions, but we blew it. Unfortunately for Prock, he narrowly avoided the same fate as Jack Beckman in the semifinals when his PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevy slammed into the guard wall trying to out-chase Spencer Hyde. After he climbed out of the rubble, Beckman declared, “I’m fine.” I am not harmed, but our race car is, and we are still confused about what happened.

My emotions are damaged, too. The safety gear was effective, but I’ve never experienced anything like that before. To Simpson and everyone else who has contributed to our safety gear, we are eternally grateful. We’ll be OK.
I swear to you that we will return to Bristol prepared to win again when we sell our spare car, a PEAK Chevy SS from last year.