Photos courtesy of Ron Lewis, NHRA
Mission accomplished.
The drag racing journey of Dallas Glenn finally culminated Sunday with his first career NHRA Pro Stock championship.
The coveted title didn’t come with a fantastic finish. Instead, Glenn was awarded the championship when NHRA officials made the decision Sunday to cancel this weekend’s In-N-Out Burger at Pomona, Calif., due to persistent rain and unsafe track conditions.
NHRA officials made the decision to determine the Pro Stock champion by the current points standings, which gave Glenn the title. Glenn came into the season finale with a 92-point lead over his KB Titan Racing teammate Greg Anderson. Anderson was hoping to wrangle a seventh championship to go with those of 2003-2005, 2010, 2021, and 2024.
Now, Glenn has a title of his own.
“It’s definitely really special, especially getting so close last year [11 points],” he said. “It’s kind of a very strange way of getting it. You don’t have all the adrenaline that you have when you’re in the car, so it kind of changes a little bit. I was telling some of the guys back at the pit that I don’t think I can do anything normal the first time. If you go back to my first Pro Stock win, we didn’t know who won right off the bat because of the timing issues.
“It feels good. I honestly don’t think it’s really hit me yet. Maybe it’ll hit me on the long four-day drive home later in the week, but no, it feels really good right now. There’s just a lot of stuff, a lot of emotions, and just trying to process everything.”
Glenn finished the season with eight wins in 13 final rounds. He also had six No. 1 qualifiers and a 50-9 elimination-round record.
A year ago, Glenn lost in the final round at Pomona to Anderson and saw a title slip away, but none of that mattered Sunday.
“It definitely feels good. I get to race all next season with the No. 1 on my car. I get to take it from Greg,” Glenn said. “Take it off of Greg’s car, put it on mine. We get to swap numbers. Maybe I can convince him to just swap cars, and we can just go ahead and leave the numbers on there. But, no, I remember that two years ago I won the race here, and Pomona is such a hard place to win. And it’s a very tough track, very prestigious. And to leave here with the points lead then, I remember the feeling. And I think we went on to win Vegas the next race too as well.
“But to look from there and then go all the way to here, I just try to get a little better every season, and I feel like I’ve definitely had the car to back me up this year when I wasn’t the best. And definitely going to just try to remember everything that I did this season and try to apply it for next year to try to be a little bit better next year, and hopefully we can have another year like we did this year.”
Glenn has won 21 career Wallys since he made his NHRA debut in Pro Stock in 2021. That season he was named NHRA Rookie of the Year, and picked up three wins (Charlotte, N.C.; Topeka, Kan.; Las Vegas). He advanced to five final rounds and posted one No. 1 qualifier.
“Obviously, I wanted to race here” at Pomona, Glenn said. “I wanted to, especially when you have a car and a team as good as we’ve had this season, it’s almost one of those seasons that you don’t really want to end even though you’re in the points lead, and ending means you’re the champion. But it’s kind of like when the going’s good, you’ve got to go get it. So, we’ve had the car to beat. We’ve had the team to beat. We’ve been doing our job on and off track, and it’s one of those where we all want to go out there and race, but we’ve got to do it safely.
“I just feel the worst for the fans and for competitors who did have a shot, especially in the sportsman ranks or in (Pro Stock Motorcycle), but we want to go out and race at the end of the day, but we completely understand the decision.”
Although Pomona was not held as scheduled, Glenn was proud of his 2025 resume.
“I really feel like I earned it, because if Greg would have beat me in Vegas and just been 30 or 40 points behind me, it definitely would have felt a lot different,” Glenn said. “And I have a feeling Greg would have pushed harder to try to race this on Wednesday or something like that.
“But to be able to take out Greg Anderson there in the semis at Las Vegas and extend the points lead into something where it’s going to be pretty hard for him to get around me, not something like he’s got to take me out of the semis or the final round or something like that to where I just needed to win first round. I think he kind of understood that this was one, we definitely earned it this year. We didn’t have any gimmes. We didn’t have any freebies. We went out and earned every round. Even if the planets were aligned on some of them and I may not have driven the best on some of them, we definitely went out there. And we did our homework, and we did all of our work off track so that we can have the success on track.”
The long road from Pomona to Mooresville, N.C., where the KB Titan headquarters is located, will culminate in a celebration.
“We’re definitely going to have a party when we get back to the shop and we get all the rigs back when we get everybody together,” Glenn said. “And we’re going to have a great office party, so to speak. And I’m sure I’m definitely going to have to step up the winner’s lunch a little bit from the normal barbecue joint. But no, it’s really good. Greg won the championship last year. I won the championship this year. We’re both one and two, two years in a row, so it’s definitely a big exclamation point for KB Titan racing. We have a lot of new things happening next year, a lot of excitement for next year already, but when we get back to the shop, I guarantee you it’s not going to be more than a day or two before we’re back at it working hard, looking forward to 2026.”
The 2026 season-opening race will be the Gatornationals on March 5-8 in Gainesville, Fla.
“It comes quick, and you definitely need to put your head down and get to work. Otherwise, you might be at the other end of the spectrum come Gainesville,” Glenn said.
When asked in his championship press conference about the Pomona cancellation, Glenn reiterated that safety was the biggest concern.
“It’s more than just driving. And obviously, the rain shower that we had in the middle of the day today really hurt any progress, but they have to go out there and scrape the top layer of rubber off because water seeps in,” Glenn said. “Then it just peels the rubber completely off the track, and it’s very bald. It’s very patchy. So, we need a nice, smooth, flat surface with a nice, clean, smooth layer of rubber or several layers of rubber on it. When there’s just a really old layer on the bottom or no rubber at all, it makes it extremely, extremely loose, especially down track for a Pro Stock car, as well as it makes it very unpredictable on the starting line.
I don’t think anybody wanted us to go out there and crash or just shake the tires of every other car or have several cars just constantly be in a pedal fast and things like that. It’s not the show that we want to put on for the fans. And we also need to make sure that it’s also safe so that we can continue doing this for years. They (NHRA Safety Safari) can go out there and work their butts off. They work their butts off hard enough, and they don’t need to go out there, and a bad surface is just going to make them look bad when their hands are tied.”
Reaching the NHRA Pro Stock summit is something Glenn has been envisioning since he was a boy.
“I think I started standing at the ropes in the Pro Stock pits maybe when I was 8 to 10 years old, somewhere in there,” Glenn said. “When I got older and I was starting to run bracket racing in Stock Eliminator after I was 16, I’m sure a lot of the teams were probably annoyed every time I came walking up, ‘Here’s this kid who’s going to stand here for the next 20 minutes and try to talk to me.’ I’d try to distract them from the work that they had to do. And then I was lucky enough to join KB Racing at the start of the 2013 season. At that point, I’m just working on the car. I’m a back-half guy, tire guy driving the truck. And I had no idea at that point if I would ever even be able to race one of these cars because they’re extremely expensive. You have to have a lot of support from family, from teammates, from sponsors, especially to help cover the financial burden.
“Then once I was able to get sponsors and get into a car, then all bets are off, I’m going head down, doing everything I can to just win every race that I can. That first year [in 2021] was one of those where it was, I had a pretty decent start to the Countdown [to the Championship]. And I was like, ‘Obviously, I feel like the underdog coming in as the rookie.’ I was head in, going for it. And then I got humbled a little bit the next couple of years.
“But I’ve definitely felt like I’ve tried to elevate and just get a little bit better every season. And then last year felt like we definitely had the car to beat, and Greg snuck around us and showed why he’s a six-time champion. This year I was determined to show him that he’s not the only one that can get it done.”
With a championship now in his fold, winning the prestigious U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis is the next box he would like to check.
“Indy’s going to be one of those that’s always a tough race. Indy’s just a long, grueling, hot, just extremely difficult, pressure-filled race. And that’s definitely one that’s right there up at the top of the list that I’d really like to accomplish,” Glenn said. “I’m always going to be kicking myself for the mistake I made [losing in the semis at Indy this year], but you’re only as good as your last race. And at this moment, the last race that we got to compete, I was holding a trophy. So, I always just try to look forward to the next one and try to learn from my mistakes and try not to do that.
“I feel like I have definitely done that. I’ve stepped up my reaction times through the Countdown. Definitely got better as I went, and kind of just snuck up on it and learned from that mistake I made in Indy.”
Even when announcers are introducing Glenn as the 2025 NHRA Pro Stock champion he is going to keep things in perspective.
“I don’t feel like I’m going to be any different than I am this season,” Glenn said. “I’ve always gone up there, and I want to, my ultimate goal is to win every single race during a season. Everybody says you can’t win them all, and I always answer with, ‘Why not?’
“It’s the same as Greg Anderson. You ask him, he’s going to go up there and he’s going to put his head down and try to win every single round, every single race. He doesn’t care who it’s against. And I kind of feel like I’m the same. I’m going to go up there, and I’m going to just learn from all the experience that I’ve had. And I’m going to go up there and I’m going to try to win every round and then put all those rounds into every race that I can and turn every race that I can into every championship that I can.”
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