POMONA, Calif. — Humorous Automotive’s Austin Prock claimed his second straight world championship on Sunday at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip.
This weekend’s In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals have been canceled on Sunday because of persistent and antagonistic climate and unsafe observe situations.
For Prock, it’s the end result of a merely dominant season in Humorous Automotive for the John Drive Racing standout, as he adopted up his first yr within the class with an much more spectacular marketing campaign in his 12,000-horsepower Cornwell Instruments Chevrolet SS.
Prock, who received eight races a yr in the past en path to the world title, claimed 9 wins in 19 races in 2025, advancing to 12 closing rounds and incomes seven No. 1 qualifiers. His yr was full of highlights, together with a sweep of all three four-wide races, three straight race wins in the summertime, capped off by a second straight U.S. Nationals victory after which clutch moments within the playoffs to complete off one other spectacular season.
“To win one world championship is one factor, and to win two is one other and it places you in a choose group,” Prock stated. “I feel there’s solely seven of us who’ve ever carried out it, and so as to add my title to that record, I want my total crew could possibly be added to that record. I get all of the reward and the glory from the media and from the followers, but it surely’s not simply me. I couldn’t accomplish what I’ve carried out within the final two years with out the individuals behind me, and I’m actually happy with them.”
Within the Countdown to the Championship, Prock was pushed by four-time champion Matt Hagan, who pulled shut after profitable in St. Louis. However Prock, who additionally received the Charlotte fall race within the playoffs, made a robust assertion in Dallas, qualifying No. 1 and profitable the race in model to offer the reigning champ some respiratory room.
Hagan received in Las Vegas over Prock within the closing spherical, however the younger standout, who went 45-10 this season, held a large cushion heading to Pomona. With the championship, Prock turns into simply the seventh Humorous Automotive driver – and simply the second in 20-plus years – to win back-to-back titles within the loaded class.
“All people on the Cornwell High quality Instruments crew is doing an outstanding job, they usually’re placing in that 110 % effort,” Prock stated. “We had a dominant race automobile all yr lengthy. Final yr, lots of people instructed me it’s not going to come back as simply subsequent yr after the season that you just had. We got here in there and ended up getting the championship. I feel that claims so much about this race crew, and says so much about me as a driver, and I’m wanting ahead to 2026 already.”
