Mon, 24 Nov 2025, 14:50 PM Former Sportsman Racer Dallas Glenn Achieves the Dream Becomes the 2025 Pro Stock World Champion

Story provided by Kelly Wade, WinLight Communications Photo courtesy of Auto Imagery/Gary Nastase

Dallas Glenn and crew celebrate Championship.

POMONA, Calif. - The rain that plagued In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip throughout the championship weekend positively wrecked any chance for completion of the final race of the season, and NHRA was forced to make a tough decision. Stunningly, officials announced on Sunday afternoon that the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals were cancelled, and the undecided 2025 Mission Foods Drag Racing Series championships were to go to the incoming points leaders. KB Titan Racing's Dallas Glenn, who won the regular season championship and was at the top of the standings for the bulk of the year, had officially earned his first Pro Stock world championship.

Although anti-climactic, it was nothing short of a dream-come-true for a kid who grew up enamored with Pro Stock.

"I think this all started standing at the ropes in the Pro Stock pits when I was eight or 10 years old," said Glenn, who won the Sportsman title in the 2008 Race of Champions at the Division 6 Summit Racing Series Finals at the tender age of 17. "When I got older and started to bracket race and run Stock Eliminator, I'm sure there were a lot of Pro Stock teams that were annoyed every time I came walking up. 'Here's this kid who's going to stand here for 20 minutes trying to talk to me.' But I was lucky enough to get hired at KB Racing in 2013, just working on the car as the back-half and tire guy, driving the truck. I had no idea if I would ever be able to race one of these cars."

Glenn did, indeed, get to race a Pro Stock car. He earned a shot after putting in a number of years as a loyal and hard-working member of the then-KB Racing crew. With the support of Dan Provost and RAD Torque Systems, Glenn made his Pro Stock debut at the Gainesville race in 2021. He was only going to race four events in that first push, but he immediately showed promise - particularly at the starting line, where he quickly earned the moniker "Double-Oh Dallas" for reaction times that routinely started with a .00. After winning a race, he knew he had to keep going, and Provost was on board, as was Shane Thompson from Silverstate Plumbing.

Catching the eye of sponsors wishing to be represented well, Glenn was able to race the full season, and in doing so, won three races along with the NHRA Rookie of the Year award. He finished No. 3 in the standings that first season.

"I felt like the underdog coming in as a rookie, obviously, and I was head-in going for it," recalled Glenn. "But I got humbled over the next couple of years. I feel like I tried to elevate and just get a little bit better every season, though, and last year we felt like we definitely had the car to beat. Greg snuck around us and showed why he's the six-time champion, but this year I was determined to show that he's not the only one who can get it done."

Last season, the championship came down to the wire in the final round of the final race of the season. It was a winner-take-all affair between Glenn and Greg Anderson, the most winning driver in the history of the class and a tough competitor - who also happened to be his boss at KB Titan Racing. Ultimately, Anderson won that fateful final round in 2024 by two-thousandths of a second, thusly securing the championship by 11 points over Glenn.

The friendly rivalry poured into and permeated the entire 2025 season. Glenn defeated Anderson in the final round at the Gainesville opener to take the points lead, but then the script flipped. At the next two races, Anderson defeated Glenn in the final to take over the top spot. Glenn was back in the driver's seat with the points lead after back-to-back wins in four wide final rounds at Las Vegas and Charlotte.

A glowing red light at the hit in the second round of the New England Nationals was the first of barely a handful of blemishes on Glenn's scorecard for the year, and he was back to the final for the next three races. In Seattle, at the racetrack where the Covington, Wash., native grew up, Glenn swept the event with a dominant performance that included a start from the No. 1 position, a reset of the track record with a pass that narrowly missed the national record for elapsed time (6.446), and a victory that sent him back to the top of the Pro Stock points.

The lead was never relinquished from there as Glenn powered to victory in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro at four of the five Countdown to the Championship playoff events. In all, Glenn won eight races in 13 final rounds and was No. 1 qualifier six times. Over the course of the season, the young driver remained steady, focused, and optimistic.

Heading into the NHRA Finals, Glenn held a 92-point lead over Anderson. All he had to do was win the first round on Sunday and the title would be his. Mother Nature, though, had other plans. Two days of qualifying at the NHRA Finals were completely washed away, and when the storm persisted well into Sunday, the decision was made to call the race. The lack of fanfare had a strange impact.

"I wanted to race here," said Glenn. "Especially when you have a car and a team as good as we've had this season. You almost don't want it to end, even though you're in the points lead and ending the season means you're the champion. It's kind of like, when the going is good, you gotta go get it. We had the car to beat, the team to beat, and we've been doing our job on and off the track. But I do feel like I earned it. We didn't have any gimmes or freebies, we went out there and earned every round. Even if the planets were aligned on some of them and I may not have driven my best at times, we did our homework and did all of the work off-track so that we could have success on-track.

"Next season is going to be the same as it was this year; I'm going to go up there, learn from the experience that I've had so far, and try to win every round, every race, and the championship. My ultimate goal is to win every race in a season, and everybody always says, 'You can't win them all.' But I always answer, 'Why not?' "

210 Pro Stock wins
11 NHRA Pro Stock Championships

KB Titan Racing includes NHRA Pro Stock drivers Greg Anderson, a six-time world champion and the most winning driver in the category; 2025 Pro Stock world champion Dallas Glenn; Deric Kramer; Matt Hartford; Eric Latino; Cory Reed; and 2025 Rookie of the Year contender Matt Latino.