{"id":102591,"date":"2025-11-18T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/alan-drinkwater-claims-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:45:15","slug":"alan-drinkwater-claims-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/alan-drinkwater-claims-second-pdra-extreme-pro-stock-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Drinkwater Claims Second PDRA Extreme Pro Stock World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years after Alan Drinkwater hoisted his first Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series world championship trophy, the Florida native captured another title in AED Competition Extreme Pro Stock to close out the 2025 season. Drinkwater in his Kaase-powered Flatout Gaskets \u201908 Mustang won four races in five final-round appearances across the seven-race season to become just the fourth driver in series history to win multiple Extreme Pro Stock world championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After winning the 2023 PDRA Extreme Pro Stock title, Drinkwater and his team took a year off from PDRA competition. When they returned at the 2025 season-opening East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park, Drinkwater raced to a runner-up finish behind defending world champion Chris Powers. Two races later, Drinkwater made it back to the winner\u2019s circle when he defeated Mountain Motor Pro Stock veteran Elijah Morton in the final round at the North vs. South Shootout at Maryland International Raceway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would say the most memorable part of the season was probably when we turned the first [final-round] win light on this year,\u201d Drinkwater says. \u201cWe made it to the first final. I goofed it up at the next race, then we won Maryland. When we turned on that last win light, it was just like, \u2018OK, we\u2019re back. We can do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

With his confidence fully restored, Drinkwater stayed on a roll through the second half of the season. He won the Northern Nationals at U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, reached the semifinals at the Thunder Valley Throwdown at Bristol Dragway, and won the final two events of the season, DragWars at GALOT Motorsports Park and the Brian Olson Memorial World Finals at Virginia Motorsports Park. The last win was a bonus, as Drinkwater secured the championship when he qualified for the World Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came here in \u201923, first time out running Extreme Pro Stock, and we clinched the championship in probably one of the most competitive fields in PDRA history,\u201d Drinkwater said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t race any PDRA last year, and to come back and repeat it again just makes us feel real good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drinkwater shared in the celebration with his team, which includes his cousin, Preston Drinkwater, longtime Extreme Pro Stock racer Tony Gillig, and racing partner Kenny Floyd.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to thank God and give Him all the glory,\u201d Drinkwater said. \u201cI thank my wife for all the support \u2013 he\u2019s at home keeping things together \u2013 and my mom and dad and everybody that supports us to get here. I give it all to my crew \u2013 Kenny, David, Mike, Scott, Preston, Rosco. Tony Gillig with Flatout Gaskets. Jay with AED has been a critical part with us and helps us get every ounce of Kaase horsepower we can out of it. We think we\u2019ve got something for everybody and we\u2019re just going to try to keep capitalizing and making good runs. We\u2019re looking forward to what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Drinkwater\u2019s closest challenger for the championship was Jeremy Huffman, who competed in Pro 632 before moving up to Extreme Pro Stock, just like Drinkwater. Driving his 3V Performance-powered \u201910 Cobalt, Huffman earned his first career win in the class at the Mid-Atlantic Showdown at VMP and picked up his third career No. 1 qualifier award at the Northern Nationals to finish second in the points standings. Young gun Jordan Ensslin finished third in a career-best season that saw the driver of the Allen-powered \u201cSeabiscuit\u201d \u201909 Mustang get his first career win at Bristol and his first and second career No. 1 qualifier awards at the final two races of the season. Ensslin finished runner-up to Drinkwater at those last two races, but beat him in the final round of the Summit Racing Equipment PDRA ProStars all-star event held during the World Finals.<\/p>\n

The Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series will celebrate its 2025 world champions at the PDRA Championship Awards Banquet on Friday, Dec. 12 during the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show weekend in Indianapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This story was originally published on November 18, 2025. \"Drag<\/p>\n

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Two years after Alan Drinkwater hoisted his first Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series world championship trophy, the Florida native captured another title in AED Competition Extreme Pro Stock to close out the 2025 season. Drinkwater in his Kaase-powered Flatout Gaskets \u201908 Mustang won four races in five final-round appearances across the seven-race season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}