The Ford Racing Nitro Mustang Funny Car continued to show measurable progress during the 2026 NHRA Southern Nationals at South Georgia Motorsports Park, delivering a top-six qualifying effort and flashes of competitive performance throughout the weekend. Piloting the Mustang Funny Car, Austin Prock and the Tasca Racing team used the event to further refine their Funny Car combination, producing one of their most complete runs of the season while continuing to build consistenc

Austin Prock and his Ford Racing Nitro Mustang Funny Car continued to make important, but bittersweet progress during the 2026 NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway, qualifying for Sunday eliminations and collecting valuable data as the team works to unlock the full potential of its Ford Racing Funny Car combination. Prock qualified No. 16 and faced a tough opening-round quad on Sunday against No. 1 qualifier Ron Capps, Chad Green, and Spencer Hyde. Although the weekend ended

Progress in nitro racing is rarely linear. It is built in increments, measured in data, and revealed in flashes. For Tasca Racing, those flashes turned into something more tangible this weekend at the 2026 NHRA Winternationals. By the time qualifying concluded Saturday evening at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip , Austin Prock had delivered a 3.967-second pass at 323.58 mph in the PPG Nitro Mustang Funny Car. On paper, it was a top-five qualifying effort. In context, it was