By Jerry Jordan, Editor
ENNIS, Texas – Dallas Glenn turned the quickest weekend in Pro Stock history into a clean sweep Sunday at Texas Motorplex, backing up his world-record qualifying run with a win at the Texas NHRA Fall Nationals and moving back into the points lead.
Antron Brown, J.R. Todd and Matt Smith joined Glenn in the winner’s circle at the 18th of 20 races in the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season and the fourth of six races in the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.
Pro Stock
Glenn, driving the RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro for KB Titan Racing, defeated Matt Hartford in the final round with a run of 6.478 seconds at 212.30 mph to Hartford’s 6.496 at 212.37. The win came one day after Glenn’s 6.434 at 213.50 set the Pro Stock national record and locked up the No. 1 qualifying spot, and he stayed the quickest car on the property through eliminations, defeating Stephen Bell, Jeg Coughlin Jr. and KB Titan Racing teammate Greg Anderson to reach the final.
It is Glenn’s fifth win of the season and his second straight at Texas Motorplex. He leaves Ennis back in the points lead by 14 points over Greg Stanfield, who lost in the first round, with Hartford third and 41 points back.
Dallas Glenn, the KB Titan Racing Pro Stock driver who set the national record on Saturday and won for the fifth time this season, told Kickin’ the Tires the final round felt calmer than the first because the points math had already broken his way.
“Matt Hartford’s an extremely tough competitor, but I knew my car was fantastic,” Glenn said. “I knew that we had a little bit left in it from the semis, and even if I did lose, it’s still going to be a fantastic day with points.”
The record itself nearly got away from him. Glenn said a small parts failure in the second qualifying session cost him the top spot there, so he called his shot before the next session.
“Just, you know, one of those $5 parts that lets you down,” Glenn said. “I went up there and I said, well, if it sticks we’re going to go, you know, probably like a 43-4. I’m going to call it right now.”
Top Fuel
Brown went 3.706 at 335.75 in his Matco Tools dragster in the final round, collecting his 83rd career win when rookie Maddi Gordon left early and fouled. His road to the final ran through Dan Mercier, Leah Pruett and points leader Shawn Langdon, and the semifinal win over Langdon snapped the Kalitta Motorsports driver’s four-race Countdown winning streak.
Brown, a four-time Top Fuel world champion and now a four-time winner at Texas Motorplex, moved to third in the points standings. Langdon still leads, 139 points ahead of Doug Kalitta, with Brown 224 points back in third.
Antron Brown, the driver of the Matco Tools Top Fuel dragster, was asked by Kickin’ the Tires about the track surface after days of racing during the Stampede of Speed had only made it better.
“Since 1988, this has probably been one of the best race tracks to race on, even in the heat,” Brown said. “The track surface never gets greasy. For some reason, even when it’s hot, the track races like a 10 degree cooler track. We raced on a 110 degree track the other day, and we’re running 60s. Don’t get that anywhere else. Only at the motorplex.”
Asked what it meant to knock off Pruett and Langdon on the way to the win, Brown credited his team’s approach.
“When you stay poised, you stay humble, and you stay hungry,” Brown said. “It’s not a surprise for us to win a race. When you go up against somebody like Shawn Langdon, you got to throw it all out there.”
Funny Car
Todd, driving the DHL Toyota GR Supra for Kalitta Motorsports, defeated points leader Matt Hagan in the final round, 3.931 at 331.76 to Hagan’s 4.050 at 316.57, after round wins over Spencer Hyde, Alexis DeJoria and Ron Capps. The win is the 24th of Todd’s career and his second of the season, and it made him just the fourth driver in NHRA history to win at Texas Motorplex in both Top Fuel and Funny Car, joining Don Prudhomme, Kenny Bernstein and Mike Dunn.
Todd jumped to third in the Funny Car points standings and trails Hagan by 119 points with two races left. Jordan Vandergriff sits second, 98 points back.
J.R. Todd, the Kalitta Motorsports Funny Car driver, was asked by Kickin’ the Tires whether the win gives him an extra boost of belief for the final two races.
“All you can ask for as a driver and a team is to have a shot, whether it’s a long shot or what have you,” Todd said. “We’re still in the conversation, so we’re not going to quit fighting until they say we’re done.”
“This is special in so many ways,” Todd said. “It’s tough to get a win, period, especially in the Countdown, and Matt Hagan’s been making it really hard for everybody in the category.”
Pro Stock Motorcycle
Smith won the final on a holeshot, pairing a .006 reaction time with a 6.660 at 203.08 on his Denso Auto Parts Buell to beat points leader Richard Gadson’s quicker 6.654 at 203.79. The win is Smith’s 46th in his career, his fourth this season and his second at Texas Motorplex, and it came after round wins over Malcolm Phillips Jr., Chase Van Sant and Ryan Oehler.
Matt Smith, the six-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion riding the Denso Auto Parts Buell, now sits third in the points standings, 85 behind Gadson. Gadson leads his teammate Gaige Herrera by 58 points.
The win did not come without a scare. Smith told reporters his bike was getting out of shape in the shutdown area, where bumps in the surface act like motocross whoops on a motorcycle with no suspension, and Kickin’ the Tires asked him what goes through his mind when it happens at speed.
“The whole bike was off the ground at one point,” Smith said. “It’s a scary feeling, you know, because the speeds that we’re running. In E2, I thought I was coming off the bike. I thought I was done.”
“When you’re running that other camp like that, you’ve got to get up on the wheel and go,” Smith said of the final.
The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series returns to action Oct. 29-Nov. 1 with the MOPAR NHRA Las Vegas Nationals powered by Dodge at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the next-to-last race of the season.