EPPING, N.H. (June 1, 2025) – Top Fuel’s Brittany Force picked up her first victory of the season, making a pair of 340-mph runs on Sunday at New England Dragway and defeating points leader Tony Stewart in the final round of the 12th annual NHRA New England Nationals.
J.R. Todd (Funny Car) and Greg Anderson (Pro Stock) also won the seventh of 20 races during the 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season.
Force went 3.694-seconds at 340.39 mph in the finals in her 12,000-horsepower Monster Energy dragster to track down Stewart, who has now advanced to five straight final rounds. He left the starting line first and went 3.720 at 329.91, but Force caught him at the finish line to win for the first time in 2025 and 18th time in her career.
It ties her with Shirley Muldowney for the most wins by a female in Top Fuel history and comes a year after her father, legendary Funny Car driver John Force, won in Epping. It was his last win before an explosive crash two weeks later in Richmond.
To get to the finals, Force knocked off Clay Millican, Shawn Reed and No. 1 qualifier Doug Kalitta, going a whopping 3.681 at a track-record 341.42 in the semifinals, just off her world-record blast of 341.59 from last month in Charlotte.
“This is just a big one. The last time I stood in the winner’s circle with him was here and I wanted to win for him,” Force said. “This one is dedicated to him and everything he’s done over the last year. It’s been really tough and we’re so proud of him, and I’m just happy to have him out here. I need him out here with me. I knew we would get back to this winner’s circle and I’m so proud of all these guys.
Funny Car’s Todd returned to the winner’s circle for the first time since the season-opener in 2024, defeating rookie Spencer Hyde in the final round with a standout run of 3.888 at 332.43 in his 12,000-horsepower DHL Toyota GR Supra. It’s the 22nd career victory for the former world champion and this one came at an ideal time, snapping a 25-race winless streak.
This one took some impressive work, too, as Todd and his team suffered an engine explosion during the final qualifying session on Saturday. But they bounced back in stellar fashion, as crew chief Dickie Venables won for the first time since joining Todd’s team in the off-season.
“I’m just glad we got that win out of the way for Dickie’s sake,” Todd said. “I’m not saying there was pressure, but when you hire a guy of that caliber, people expect you to win.”
In Pro Stock, fans witnessed the first final-round matchup between longtime rivals between Greg Anderson and Erica Enders in 2025, and it was the reigning world champion Anderson who put together a classic performance, going 6.469 at 212.19 to set the track E.T. record at the perfect time in his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro.
It was a rebound weekend for Enders, but there’s still no stopping KB Titan Racing at the moment, as Anderson rolled to his third win of the season and 109th in his terrific career.
Anderson and teammate Dallas Glenn have won every event this year and that continued on Sunday, as Anderson defeated Kenny Delco, Dave Connolly and Matt Hartford to reach the final round.
“I got lucky a couple times today,” Anderson said. “It takes a lot of luck to win one of these things. We finally made a great run in the final.”
Enders reached the final round for the first time this season but was denied her 50th national event win. She knocked off Deric Kramer, Cory Reed and Aaron Stanfield to advance to the finals, moving from 14th to ninth in points.
The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series returns to action June 6-8 with the 24th annual Super Grip NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tenn.