JAMIE ALLEN, 2025 HANGRY’S BUMP TO PASS - STATELINE SPEEDWAY
This is Jamie Allen’s first championship and “I couldn’t be more excited for my friends, crew and fans that cheer me on,” he wrote in an email. “We are looking forward to the 2026 season and have a few new things in the works.”
Allen has been racing for 25 years at Stateline Speedway. He originally started working at the track when he was 15. “I would drive out in the Ford Courier pickup and sweep up after crashes and motor blow ups,” he said.
“I was immediately addicted and built my first racecar, a 1979 Honda Civic for the Roadrunner class,” Allen said. “I have raced several classes from demo derbys to late models.”
He always wanted to race in the bump to pass class as many of Allen’s friends raced that class. So with a little work, he did just that.
“I had a Monte Carlo sitting in my yard for several years with the intention of building it,” Allen explained. “I went with my family to a Boat race, saw the carnage, and knew that’s what I wanted to do.”
Over the winter prior to the 2023 race season he built the car which also led to building his brother a car as well.
“We had a great first season trying to figure it all out,” Allen said. “In the 2024 opening boat race I went a little too hard on a boat and smacked the wall head on, causing me to break my hand and severe damage to the car.
He spent the next year getting the car dialed in and was able to pull out some wins in the 2025 season including winning the final boat race of the season which secured the championship.
LAS VEGAS (Nov. 2, 2025) – In her final appearance at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Brittany Force powered past Shawn Langdon in the final round on Sunday at the 25th annual Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals powered by Direct Connection, winning for the 19th time in her career.
Matt Hagan (Funny Car), Dallas Glenn (Pro Stock) and Gaige Herrera (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won the 19th of 20 races during the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season and the fifth of six races in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.
Force went 3.704-seconds at 337.33 mph in her 12,000-horsepower Chevrolet Accessories dragster, holding off Langdon’s run of 3.727 at 333.91 to pick up her second victory in 2025 and her fifth career win in Las Vegas. It brought out a roar from the crowd as Force, who announced her retirement from full-time racing at the end of the season, looks to close the season in style.
She qualified No. 1, setting the track speed record on Friday, and then knocked off Clay Millican and Tony Stewart on Sunday to face off against Langdon. It gives her back-to-back fall wins at Las Vegas, adding another special memory to her standout career.
“This win is a special one,” Force said. “This race is now something more than any other race, because of that number 19, lining it up as the winningest female driver in Top Fuel makes it more special. “
In Funny Car, four-time world champion Matt Hagan stayed alive in the title chase with a spectacular performance in Vegas, including a weekend-best run of 3.877 at 327.03 in his 12,000-horsepower American Rebel Beer Dodge//SRT Hellcat to defeat points leader Austin Prock in the final round.
With Prock on the verge of clinching, Hagan and his Tony Stewart Racing team made sure it wouldn’t take place in Vegas, turning in an epic day, making two runs of 3.87 to stay alive. The victory over Prock gave Hagan his third victory of the season and 55th in his standout career.
“I think we made [the points race] interesting,” Hagan said. “Nobody really expected us to win or them to smoke the tires, or anything like that. But we just went up there and said, ‘This is what we think the track can hold and run the best that we can,’ and I was up on the wheel and got a good light.”
There was no Las Vegas slump this weekend for Pro Stock points leader Dallas Glenn, who was picture-perfect, taking the win for the eighth time this season after defeating Matt Hartford in the championship round with a run of 6.602 at 206.61 in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro.
It was the weekend Glenn needed, as he defeated Dave Connolly, 10-time Vegas winner Erica Enders and then Anderson en route to the finals.
“This is very satisfying,” Glenn said. “Coming in with a very similar points lead to last year where I had to sit and watch that lead go to negative.”
Back-to-back Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion Gaige Herrera had a flawless weekend when he needed it most, capping off an impressive three days with his third straight victory in Las Vegas.
It gives Herrera his seventh victory this season and 28th in his career, and with a third straight championship on the line, he pulled to within 21 points of teammate and points leader Richard Gadson. That’s less than one round of racing at the In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals in Pomona, setting up what could be an incredible finale.
“This couldn’t have gone any better,” Herrera said. “Me and my teammate [Gadson], facing off in the semis, with him in the points lead, so I needed him to go out to get a little closer.”
The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series returns to action on Nov. 13-16 with the final race of the season, the 60th annual In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip.
LARSON TAKES CUP TITLE AS BLANEY WINS SHOCKER AT PHOENIX By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service
Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, sons, Cooper Larson and Owen Larson and daughter Audrey Larson celebrate in victory lane in Avondale, Arizona. NASCAR photo
AVONDALE, Ariz. (November 2, 2025) — When William Byron hit the Turn 3 wall with bone-jarring impact on Lap 310 of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race, the gut punch it delivered to Denny Hamlin was exponentially more painful.
The resulting caution and strategic call by crew chief Cliff Daniels allowed Kyle Larson to snatch the Cup Series championship from Hamlin without leading a lap at Phoenix Raceway.
Larson finished third behind race winner Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski to claim his second title in NASCAR’s top division and the 15th for team owner Rick Hendrick as the highest finisher among the Championship 4 drivers—Hamlin, Byron and Chase Briscoe.
It was the 15th Cup championship for team owner Rick Hendrick, and it came with a major plot twist in the final stage.
With the scheduled 312 laps winding down, Hamlin led Byron by nearly three seconds and appeared headed for the first Cup title in his 20 full-time seasons behind the wheel of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
In dominating fashion, Hamlin led seven times for 207 laps. Though he battled a balky clutch and rallied from a flat left-rear tire after winning the second stage, he failed to win the championship for the fifth time under the elimination Playoff format.
Instead, it was Larson who went to Victory Lane to receive the Bill France Cup, almost in disbelief.
“Honestly, I can’t believe it,” Larson said. “Like, we didn’t lead a lap today. Somehow won the championship. I mean, really, I’m just speechless. I can’t believe it. We had an average car at best.”
Larson got the confidence he needed on the first two-tire call under caution on Lap 281. He restarted second beside Briscoe and was able to maintain fifth place before Byron hit the wall.
“Again, just unbelievable. I cannot believe it. This is insane.”
Doubtless, Hamlin would agree. He and his team brought the fastest car to Phoenix and executed a near-flawless race. The clutch issue and flat left-rear tire were challenges the No.11 team overcame without panicking.
But the championship eluded Hamlin once again.
“Did the best I could,” Hamlin said. “Everything I really prepared for happened today. I felt like we responded. Even losing track position at one point, just battling back. Did really well on restarts. Hadn’t been good on restarts for the bulk of the year.
Blaney’s win was almost an afterthought, but it also was tantalizingly close to a second championship for the driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford. Blaney finished second to Byron in a must-win situation last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway—one spot away from qualifying for the Championship 4.
Blaney led 20 laps in securing his fourth win of the season and the 17th of his career. The win was his first at Phoenix after three straight runner-up finishes in the Championship Race. In 2023, however, second place was good enough to earn Blaney his only series title to date.
