{"id":104311,"date":"2026-01-16T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=104311"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:20:57","slug":"prock-familys-move-to-tasca-racing-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/prock-familys-move-to-tasca-racing-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Prock Family\u2019s Move to Tasca Racing Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series news that most folks have been expecting for several months has finally dropped, January 15th during Detroit\u2019s auto show, where Ford Racing delineated its 2026 motorsports activities. Austin Prock, the two-time consecutive Funny Car champion with John Force Racing and Chevrolet, together with his father Jimmy and brother Thomas, are joining Ford stalwarts Tasca Racing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Austin Prock is ready for his Ford debut – Tasca Racing photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the same time, Bob Tasca III, 50, who has been driving the team\u2019s Ford Mustang Dark Horse Funny Car since 2008 is turning all driving duties to Prock as this organization enters a new era of competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s true. The nitro ranks in NHRA will look a lot different this coming season, the sanction\u2019s 75th year of racing. There won\u2019t be anyone with the surname \u201cForce\u201d driving for John Force Racing, now that both John Force and Brittany Force have stepped from their respective Funny Car and Top Fuel seats. Now Bob Tasca, who has been in the thick of Funny Car competition for nearly two decades, was the first to hit 340mph – albeit unofficially at Bradenton last year – while Prock was the first to set an official 341-mph blast to 1,000 feet in NHRA\u2019s 2024 season closer.<\/p>\n

Just those two changes are pretty earth-shattering. No Force. No Tasca. But we do get plenty of Prock. Three Procks, in fact!<\/p>\n

Tasca and the Prock family made their announcement in Detroit, with the launch event of Ford Racing for the 2026 season. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to welcome the Prock family under the Tasca Racing umbrella,\u201d third generation racer Tasca stated. \u201cI\u2019ve had a front-row seat throughout my career, watching the success Jimmy Prock has achieved, and he\u2019s only continued to elevate his program with the addition of his sons.<\/p>\n

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Tasca Racing has strong Ford affiliations – Anne Proffit photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cPeople will naturally ask how this all came together, and the answer is simple: the long-term vision of the Prock family and the Tasca family aligned perfectly. With the combined resources of Tasca Racing, Ford Racing and the Prock family, we know this partnership will be a force to be reckoned with for many years to come,\u201d Tasca declared.<\/p>\n

While testing before the season starter, Prock\u2019s first race as a Ford driver, after driving Chevrolet-bodied Floppers for the past two seasons, takes place in the 75th anniversary season starter for NHRA, the Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, scheduled for March 5-8, 2026. He\u2019ll be driving the P{G Nitro Mustang Dark Horse Funny Car in his official debut with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored to join Tasca Racing. Our family shares the same passion and work ethic for success in motorsports,\u201d said Austin Prock, also a third-generation drag racer. \u201cLike Tasca, our family\u2019s legacy in the racing industry runs for many decades. We re ready for the challenge of building a championship-level team under the Tasca Racing banner. The work has already begun,\u201d he warned. \u201c2026 is going to be exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin Prock, the two-time consecutive Funny Car champion with John Force Racing and Chevrolet, together with his father Jimmy and brother Thomas, are joining Ford stalwarts Tasca Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":104312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029],"tags":[6606,5624,39,43,148,38,1438,423,9966,11513,7,5626,11306],"class_list":["post-104311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","tag-austin-prock","tag-bob-tasca-iii","tag-chevrolet","tag-ford","tag-ford-racing","tag-funny-car","tag-jimmy-prock","tag-john-force-racing","tag-mission-foods-drag-racing-series","tag-mustang-dark-horse","tag-nhra","tag-tasca-racing","tag-thomas-prock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ford-FC1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-r8r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104347,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104311\/revisions\/104347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}