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BROWNSBURG, Ind. – Speedmaster (www.speedmaster79.com), the global leader in high-performance automotive parts and motorsports culture, has increased its partnership to full primary sponsorship of John Force Racing’s Top Fuel Dragster team driven by Josh Hart in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series. Speedmaster was announced as a co-primary partner with Hart’s Burnyzz Speed Shop on Jan. 28 of this year. Both Speedmaster and Burnyzz Speed Shop will continue to have brand identification on all four of John Force Racing’s teams throughout the year. The Speedmaster Top Fuel Dragster will make its debut at the April 10-12 NHRA Winternationals at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. “I’ve never had a sponsor contribute so much so fast,” said Hart. “The partnership is beyond just parts and sponsorship for the race car. We quickly became friends. We quickly understand each other’s businesses. Jason’s been great. The whole Speedmaster team has really been kind of rallying behind this. He mentioned to me that this is a lifelong dream of his to be a primary sponsor on a Top Fuel car with John Force Racing. The fact that we were able to collaborate and put it together as quickly as we did is absolutely epic. Speedmaster stepping into the primary spot alleviates some pressure on me, puts them in the spotlight, which is what they deserve and, hopefully, it’s a long-term partnership for years to come.” Hart won the 2026 NHRA season-opening Gatornationals on March 8 in his John Force Racing debut. A second-round finish two weeks later at the Arizona Nationals finds the team second in the point standings heading into the Winternationals. Overall, John Force Racing drivers have won 32 times in three events at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip (17 times in the Winternationals, 14 times in the Finals plus John Force’s win in the 50th Anniversary NHRA Nationals in 2001). The 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Top Fuel point standings are: 1. Doug Kalitta, 176; 2. Josh Hart, 174; 3. Shawn Langdon, 170; 4. Leah Pruett, 158; 5. Maddi Gordon, 152; 6. Tony Stewart, 108; 7. Antron Brown, 107; 8. Tony Schumacher, 101; 9. Billy Torrence, 78; 10. (tie) Justin Ashley, 65 and Shawn Reed, 65. Quotes What is your assessment of the 2026 season just two races in? “Even though we went out in the second round at Arizona, I think, as of right now, I may have already eclipsed all of my round wins from last year already this year. So, for me, this early season has been very positive. There’s a lot of momentum, a lot of excitement. The track was hot in Arizona so we can’t beat everybody up over that. And we know that the conditions in Pomona are always good. So, I’m very confident. I think we’ll be right there in the Top 5 as far as qualifying goes, which will change our stars on race day. And we’ll get this Speedmaster team right back in line.” How is the communication on the team coming together with this new program? “It’s a collaborative effort where we have to make a risk-versus-reward assessment before we make every run. So, in qualifying, if we’re happy with where we qualified, maybe we don’t push as hard. Maybe we try to get better data. If we’re not happy where we are in qualifying, we may push harder knowing that we potentially can smoke the tires, but we have a shot at improving our qualifying position. And those types of educated decisions amongst the Speedmaster team and myself is something that you can’t find everywhere. A lot of people do not operate that way so I’m very proud of the communication and definitely feeling a very good vibe between me and the team.”
Stats Pomona1 Race Result Round Wins Round Loss Qualified Event Record 2021 (TF) Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2022 (TF) 2nd round Def S. Langdon Loss to B. Force 9th 1-1 2023 (TF) 1st round Loss to S. Torrence 9th 1-2 2024 (TF) 1st round Loss to B. Torrence 14th 1-3 2025 (TF) 2nd round Def J. Ashley Loss to S. Langdon 6th 2-4 Starts: 4 Wins: 0 No. 1 Qualifiers: 0 Event Round Record: 2-4 Track & TV Schedules NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying features qualifying at 1:30 and 4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 10, and the final two rounds on Saturday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, April 12. Television coverage on Sunday, April 12, 2026, includes a qualifying show from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on FS1 and eliminations from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
DeJoria is currently sixth in the Funny Car point standings after two of 20 races on the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Calendar. She finished runner-up in her John Force Racing debut at the Gatornationals and went out in the first round at Phoenix two weeks later to JFR teammate Jordan Vandergriff. Bandero team crew chief Mike Neff has experienced the ultimate success at the Winternationals during his initial stint at John Force Racing. The Hemet, Calif., native was the crew chief for John Force when he won the Funny Car class in 2013 and qualified No. 1 in 2014. Overall, John Force Racing drivers have won 32 times in three events at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip (17 times in the Winternationals, 14 times in the Finals plus John Force’s win in the 50th Anniversary NHRA Nationals in 2001). The 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car point standings are: 1. Chad Green, 174; 2. Spencer Hyde, 156; 3. Ron Capps, 151; 4. J.R. Todd, 140; 5. Matt Hagan, 135; 6. Alexis DeJoria, 126; 7. Jordan Vandergriff, 125; 8. Paul Lee, 111; 9. Daniel Wilkerson, 107; 10. Jack Beckman, 64. Quotes What’s it like racing at your home track? “I’m looking forward to racing in Pomona, looking for redemption after that finish in Phoenix. We started off really strong, went to the finals at the first race of the season and then dropped down by losing first round in Phoenix. So, I’m definitely looking for redemption and Pomona’s always kind of been one of my home tracks because I’m a California native born and raised. I’ve never won there before so that’s always been on my bucket list. So, we’ll see what happens this weekend but I’m hoping for the best and continuing our early success with this Bandero team.” “Pomona is where I first saw Funny Cars in person. I went there for the Winternationals when I was 16. I’ve also gone there for swap meets and stuff for my personal car collection but that was the first time I had ever seen professional drag racing in person and John Force in particular.” What would winning NHRA’s 1000th Funny Car race mean to you? “Winning the 1000th Funny Car race would be incredible. There’s the special trophy getting a special trophy and the prestige and obviously just the history of that racetrack. The whole year is significant for NHRA with the 75th anniversary, but Pomona, that’s the place I’ve always wanted to win. and I’ve been to the finals (2021 In-N-Out Burger Finals), qualified number one (2014 Finals) but never got the trophy so we’ll see.” How has the Bandero team progressed so far this season? “Oh gosh. I think the Bandero team is gelling really well and for a brand new team that says a lot. I’m very, very grateful to be on such a successful team. You can just tell early on who’s going get along with who and where troubles happen, but I really haven’t seen any of that go down. We’re really blessed and I can’t wait to see what we’re going to achieve in our future, especially in the immediate future by going out there and having a good showing in Pomona.”
Stats Pomona1 Race Result Round Wins Round Loss Qualified Event Record 2011 (FC) Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2012 (FC) 1st round Loss to J. Force 11th 0-1 2013 (FC) 1st round Loss to J. Gray 10th 0-2 2014 (FC) 1st round Loss to G. Densham 3rd 0-3 2015 (FC) 1st round Loss to R. Capps 11th 0-4 2016 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Campbell Loss to D. Worsham 4th 1-5 2017 (FC) 1st round Loss to T. Johnson Jr 7th 1-6 2018 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2019 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2020 (FC) Semi-finals Def. P. Lee, R. Hight Loss to J. Beckman 11th 3-7 2021 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Rupert Loss to J. Campbell 6th 4-8 2022 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Campbell Loss to C. Pedregon 5th 5-9 2023 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Arend Loss to M. Hagan 2nd 6-10 2024 (FC) DNQ N/A N/A 17th 6-10 2025 (FC) 1st round Loss to M. Hagan 9th 6-11 Starts: 11 Wins: 0 No. 1 Qualifiers: 0 Event Round Record: 6-11 Track & TV Schedules NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying features qualifying at 1:30 and 4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 10, and the final two rounds on Saturday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, April 12. Television coverage on Sunday, April 12, 2026, includes a qualifying show from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on FS1 and eliminations from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
BROWNSBURG, Ind. – It was at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip that John Force Racing’s Jordan Vandergriff got his first taste of the sensory overload that is NHRA drag racing and it’s there during the April 8-10 NHRA Winternationals that the Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS Funny Car driver hopes earn his first event win in the sanctioning body’s 1,000th Funny Car race. This weekend will be the first time the California native has competed in the Winternationals but he does have prior experience at the legendary drag strip. In the last event of his 11-race Top Fuel rookie season, at the 2019 NHRA Finals, Vandergriff beat Austin Prock in Round 1 before losing to Leah Pruett in the second. Vandergriff sits seventh in the Funny Car point standings after the season’s first two races. He earned a semifinals finish at the season-opening Gatornationals in his John Force Racing debut and a second-round showing two weeks later in the Arizona heat. Overall, John Force Racing drivers have won 32 times in three events at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip (17 times in the Winternationals, 14 times in the Finals plus John Force’s win in the 50th Anniversary NHRA Nationals in 2001). The 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car point standings are: 1. Chad Green, 174; 2. Spencer Hyde, 156; 3. Ron Capps, 151; 4. J.R. Todd, 140; 5. Matt Hagan, 135; 6. Alexis DeJoria, 126; 7. Jordan Vandergriff, 125; 8. Paul Lee, 111; 9. Daniel Wilkerson, 107; 10. Jack Beckman, 64. Quotes What are your thoughts on competing in the Winternationals for the first time at your home track? “Pomona is my track is my hometown track. It’s the track I grew up going to and it holds a special place in my heart because it’s where drag racing was introduced to me. I’ve only run there once before, in my rookie year at the Finals. So, this will be my second time there and I can’t wait to be in the Cornwell Tools Funny Car.” “Pomona was where I first got the feel for the speed and what it was about. It was the heyday of Tony Schumacher, when he was winning everything and John Force was winning everything. It was just a different era of drag racing when I was growing up, and now, to be ushering in this new era of drag racing at Pomona is unreal. So, I can’t wait to go back.” What would it mean to you to earn your first event win in NHRA’s 1,000th Funny Car race? “Getting my first win in the NHRA’s 1000th Funny Car race, at my hometown track, would be amazing. I think you couldn’t write a script any better than that, and Hollywood’s not too far away. It just would be unbelievable for it to happen and we’re going there with the idea that it’s going to happen. We have a good Cornwell Tools Chevy, and the weather should come into the wheelhouse, so we’ll be ready. Chris Cunningham and Jason Bunker (crew chiefs) will tune that thing up and I’m going to hop in it and try to get that win.” What is your assessment of the Cornwell Tools team’s progress two races into the 2026 season? “The Cornwell team is great. Chris Cunningham leading us with Jason Bunker, and the team has really come together very quickly. We’re all really good friends already and I think that’s part of it. You know, you have to be good friends. You work together. you respect each other. That will usher in good results. But it all starts with Chris Cunningham. He is the right guy to be leading us. We’ve experienced some good results so far. We’re seventh of the points and I think we’ve done better than what seventh points looks like, honestly. I think we’ve performed well in these first two races.”
Stats Pomona1 Race Result Round Wins Round Loss Qualified Event Record 2019 (TF) Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2025 (TF) Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A Starts: 0 Wins: 0 No. 1 Qualifiers: 0 Event Round Record: 0-0 Track & TV Schedules NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying features qualifying at 1:30 and 4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 10, and the final two rounds on Saturday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, April 12. Television coverage on Sunday, April 12, 2026, includes a qualifying show from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on FS1 and eliminations from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
BROWNSBURG, Ind. – With the cancellation of last November’s NHRA Finals, Jack Beckman’s incredibly successful albeit circuitous winning streak is still intact for he and the John Force Racing PEAK Chevrolet SS Funny Car team heading into the April 8-10 NHRA Winternationals at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip. Beckman has won his last four starts at Pomona (2019 Finals, 2020 Winternationals, 2024 Finals, 2025 Winternationals) and is 19-1 in his last five appearances at the track. The more than three years’ gap is the result of his fulltime return to his job as an elevator repairman after his previous team shuttered at the end of the 2020 season. In addition, his two NHRA Super Comp national event wins happened at the Winternationals in 1998 and 2003. Beckman is currently 10th in the 2026 Funny Car standings after Round 1 losses at Gainesville (to JFR teammate Jordan Vandergriff) and Phoenix (to Daniel Wilkerson). Overall, John Force Racing drivers have won 32 times in three events at In-N-Out Pomona Dragstrip (17 times in the Winternationals, 14 times in the Finals plus Force’s win in the 50th Anniversary NHRA Nationals in 2001). The 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Funny Car point standings are: 1. Chad Green, 174; 2. Spencer Hyde, 156; 3. Ron Capps, 151; 4. J.R. Todd, 140; 5. Matt Hagan, 135; 6. Alexis DeJoria, 126; 7. Jordan Vandergriff, 125; 8. Paul Lee, 111; 9. Daniel Wilkerson, 107; 10. Jack Beckman, 64. Quotes What would it mean for you to win NHRA’s 1000th Funny Car race? “Not only am I a drag racing historian, I am also part of the history. NHRA is hosting a panel discussion at the museum on race weekend with the milestone winners, and numbers 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, are all alive and as far as I know will all be there. I’m number 600. I had forgotten the fact that I’m part of the fabric of the milestone race wins that got us to 1,000. There’s never any extra incentive to win a race, because you just want to win a race, and they’re the same size trophies at every race … except for this year being NHRA’s 75th anniversary. NHRA stepped up the appearance of the winners’ trophies this year, and tracks have lately been giving an additional trophy, kind of the flavor of the event there, and so I’m sure this one for the 1000th is going to be incredible.” I just I didn’t think I’d be a part of this. I mean, I’ve done 30 races for John Force Racing, so 31 races ago I wasn’t racing. The fact that I’m back in the cockpit to have a chance to win the 1,000th Funny Car race is the greatest news.” “Pomona happens to be my home track, just happens to be the 1,000th Funny Car race, and I happen to be the defending race champion. I’m hoping that the planets are going to line up. I’ve won the Winternationals the last two times I’ve been there. One of them was 2020 and the other one was 2025 so, for me, I’d love this to be a three-peat there. I’ve actually won at Pomona the last four times I’ve raced there so I’d like to make it five in a row. There’s just a three-and-a-half-year gap in between. It’s kind of a nice feeling to be a part of this history. Maybe I haven’t thought about this too much but I’m a historian that’s also getting to put my thumbprint on some of the history. That’s pretty cool.”
Stats Pomona1 Race Result Round Wins Round Loss Qualified Event Record 2005 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2006 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2007 (FC) 1st round Loss to J. Arend 6th 0-1 2008 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Toliver Loss to C. Pedregon 15th 1-2 2009 (FC) 2nd round Def. C. Pedregon Loss to R. Hight 8th 2-3 2010 (FC) Semi-finals Def. T. Pedregon Def. D. Worsham Loss to J. Force 7th 4-4 2011 (FC) 1st round Loss to R. Capps 9th 4-5 2012 (FC) 2nd round Def. Bob Bode Loss to G. Densham 2nd 5-6 2013 (FC) 1st round Loss to T. Lesenko 2nd 5-7 2014 (FC) 1st round Loss to T. Johnson Jr 8th 5-8 2015 (FC) DNQ N/A N/A 18th 5-8 2016 (FC) 2nd round Def. J. Hale Loss to J. Force 1st 6-9 2017 (FC) 2nd round Def. C. Pedregon Loss to M. Hagan 8th 7-10 2018 (FC) Semi-finals Def. B. Tasca Def. T. Wilkerson Loss to R. Hight 3rd 9-11 2019 (FC) Runner-up Def. P. Burkart Def. C. Pedregon Def. T. Johnson Jr Loss to R. Hight 2nd 12-12 2020 (FC) ***60th Winternationals Winner Def. S. Densham, R. Capps, A. DeJoria, J. Force 2nd 16-12 2021 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2022 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2023 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2024 Did Not Compete N/A N/A N/A N/A 2025 (FC) Winner ***300th FC Win for John Force Racing Def. J. Diehl, C. Green, M. Hagan, D. Wilkerson 4th 20-12 Starts: 14 Wins: 2 (2020 & 2025) No. 1 Qualifiers: 1 (2016) Event Round Record: 20-12 Track & TV Schedules NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series qualifying features qualifying at 1:30 and 4 p.m. PT on Friday, April 10, and the final two rounds on Saturday, April 11 at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Final eliminations are scheduled for 11 a.m. PT on Sunday, April 12. Television coverage on Sunday, April 12, 2026, includes a qualifying show from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on FS1 and eliminations from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
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