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\u201cDickie [Venables] and Todd [Smith, crew chiefs] did a really good job of racing smart today, not throwing down every run, just racing the conditions on the track,\u201d Todd said. \u201cI thought for sure we were in trouble there in the semis. I missed the Tree, which you can\u2019t do against Matt Hagan because they\u2019ll make you pay for it, and then I hit the gas and the thing is just out of control, but the win light came on. In the final, I saw Austin out front, and I was like \u2018You\u2019ve got to be kidding me.\u2019 I thought that I was late and then the win light is on our side. It\u2019s crazy, but I\u2019m just so happy for my guys because they\u2019ve been working their butts off.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a big weight off our shoulders. I feel like we let a couple slip through the cracks there earlier in the year. Then we struggled the summer with some clutch disc issues. Now, I think that we\u2019re getting back to where we need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prock, the defending event winner, advanced to the final round for the second time this season and the 34th time in his career after getting round wins against Daniel Wilkerson, Dave Richards and Jack Beckman. Ron Capps, who lost in the first round for the second straight race, stayed in the points lead, but it\u2019s now just 37 points over Jack Beckman and only 42 against Seattle winner Todd.<\/p>\n
Top Fuel\u2019s Doug Kalitta ensured a Kalitta Motorsports nitro sweep for just the second time ever, going a whopping 3.677 at 338.43 in his 12,000-horsepower Mac Tools dragster to slip past Leah Pruett\u2019s 3.689 at 333.49.<\/p>\n
A week after winning in Sonoma, Kalitta rolled to a second straight win, making three runs in the 3.60s on Sunday in Seattle. After qualifying third, he went 3.669 \u2013 the quickest run of the weekend \u2013 3.690 and 3.726 to reach the finals, defeating Shawn Reed, Jasmine Salinas and Antron Brown in the process.<\/p>\n He led wire-to-wire against Pruett to capture his third victory of the season and the 62nd in his career. It\u2019s also Kalitta\u2019s second win in Seattle, 12 years after his first. More importantly, the reigning world champion has gotten hot at the ideal time for a second straight year, closing in on teammate Shawn Langdon. He\u2019s now just five points outside of the lead in the race for the regular season title.<\/p>\n \u201cGetting this double, I\u2019m just so happy for Connie (Kalitta),\u201d Kalitta said. \u201cHe\u2019s given us everything we need, and obviously all the crew chiefs, everybody\u2019s pulling together trying to help one another, and today\u2019s a good result of that. I\u2019m just real proud of our whole effort. I tell you, Connie\u2019s had my back for years.<\/p>\n \u201cAlan [Johnson, crew chief] has got the car dialed in. I feel very fortunate he\u2019s working on my car. It took us a little bit to get it going this season. We obviously made a lot of changes and it\u2019s coming together, and when you get down towards the end of the year, Alan\u2019s got a lot of championships. This is really the time of the year he really focuses on and he always seems to be able to pull it off, so it\u2019s going to be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n Pruett made her third final-round appearance in 2026 and the 28th in her career after defeating Will Smith, Justin Ashley and No. 1 qualifier Josh Hart.<\/p>\n In Pro Stock, Greg Anderson broke out of a recent slump in a major way on Sunday at Pacific Raceways, taking down Greg Stanfield in the final round after Stanfield went red. Anderson went 6.508 at 211.00 in his HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro, avenging a recent stretch that included back-to-back first-round losses.<\/p>\n That wasn\u2019t the case in Seattle, as Anderson moved back into the points lead, winning for the third time in 2026 and the 115th time in his career. After qualifying second, Anderson drove past Stephen Bell, Matt Latino and then longtime rival Erica Enders to reach the final round.<\/p>\n Stanfield, who won last weekend in Sonoma, went red by .008 to hand the victory to Anderson. It gives the six-time world champion four victories at Pacific Raceways and this was an important one after a rough two-race stretch. That now seems to be long gone as Anderson got back on the winning track \u2013 and at an ideal point in the season.<\/p>\n \u201cI certainly didn\u2019t have a lot of confidence when I came here today. We ran a lot better this weekend,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cMy car was definitely better, but I could see, as everybody could see, Dallas Glenn had the car to beat, so to get by Dallas and everybody else out here, like Greg Stanfield, who\u2019s on a roll, is really great.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just a cool class right now. The rest of the year is going to be cool. It\u2019s going to be a real dogfight. I just feel fortunate to be part of it. I\u2019m still alive. I apparently, somehow, took the [points] lead from Dallas today, so that\u2019s pretty damn cool, and it just shows what can happen in this class.\u201d<\/p>\n Stanfield was denied a second straight win, but advanced to the final round for the 30th time in his career after defeating his son, Aaron, Cody Anderson and defending event winner Dallas Glenn. Anderson\u2019s points lead over reigning world champion is just eight points with two races left in the regular season.<\/p>\n The NHRA Mission Food Drag Racing Series returns to action Aug. 20-23 with the 44th annual NHRA Brainerd Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minn.<\/p>\n This story was originally published on July 26, 2026. The post Kalitta, Todd, and Anderson Race to Wins at Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Funny Car\u2019s J.R. 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