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Dallas Glenn put together an incredible season in his RAD Torque Systems Chevrolet Camaro powered by KB Titan Racing, but heading into the final six races that make up the Countdown to the Championship, he knew that his footing was anything but secure. It was far too easy to recall what had happened the year before, when Glenn’s dream of bringing home the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Pro Stock championship slipped from his grasp in the final six seconds of the last race. This time around, however, skill and fortune collaborated in favor of the young gentleman with clutch dust under his fingernails and the route to drive the race rig home from Pomona already mapped.

Glenn, who had won the regular-season championship, three Mission #2Fast2Tasty NHRA Challenge races, and was at the top of the standings for the bulk of the year, was the Pro Stock points leader entering the season closer. He officially earned the title on Sunday afternoon when the rain-plagued In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals was canceled. Although it was an anti-climactic ending to a stout season-long battle with teammate and defending world champion Greg Anderson, the final result was nothing short of a dream come true for a kid who grew up enamored with Pro Stock.

“This all started standing at the ropes in the Pro Stock pits when I was 8 or 10 years old,” said Glenn, who raced to victory in the 2008 Race of Champions at the Northwest Division’s NHRA Summit Racing Series Finals at the age of 17. “When I got older and started to bracket race and run Stock eliminator, I’m sure there were a lot of Pro Stock teams that were annoyed every time I came walking up. ‘Here’s this kid who’s going to stand here for 20 minutes trying to talk to me.’ But I was lucky enough to get hired at KB Racing [now KB Titan Racing] in 2013, just working on the car as the back-half and tire guy, driving the truck. I had no idea if I would ever be able to race one of these cars.”

Glenn earned a shot to race a Pro Stock car for the team after putting in a number of years as a loyal and hardworking member of the crew, driving Anderson’s hauler to and from races and setting up and tearing down the awnings at each event — tasks he still handles, to this day. But hard work and a good attitude do not fund a Pro Stock car. With the support of Dan Provost and RAD Torque Systems, Glenn was able to make his debut at the Gainesville race in 2021. Initially, he was only on the books to race four events, but he showed immediate promise — particularly at the starting line, where he quickly earned the moniker “Double-Oh Dallas” for reaction times that routinely started with a .00.

After procuring a win in just the fourth race of his career at the Charlotte NHRA 4-Wide Nationals, it became evident that he had to keep going. With financial support of marketing partners and the encouragement of original team owners Ken and Judy Black, Glenn raced the full season. He finished No. 3 in the world with three victories on his scorecard and the NHRA Rookie of the Year award.

“I felt like the underdog coming in as a rookie, obviously, and I was head-in going for it,” recalled Glenn. “But I got humbled over the next couple of years. I feel like I tried to elevate and just get a little bit better every season, though, and last year, we felt like we definitely had the car to beat. Greg snuck around us and showed why he’s the six-time champion, but this year, I was determined to show that he’s not the only one who can get it done.”

Last season, the championship came down to the wire. The final round of the last race was a winner-take-all affair between Glenn and Anderson — the most winning driver in the history of the class and a tough competitor, who also happened to be the boss at KB Titan Racing. Both drivers laid it all on the line in the final, and ultimately, Anderson won that fateful round in 2024 by two-thousandths of a second to win the championship over Glenn by 11 points.

That friendly rivalry poured into and permeated the entire 2025 season, with the two ultracompetitive drivers dominating the class, repeatedly butting heads in the final round, and trading wins. Glenn defeated Anderson in the final at the Gainesville opener to take the points lead, but then the script flipped. At the next two races, Anderson defeated Glenn to resume his position at the top. Glenn was back in the driver’s seat with the points lead after back-to-back wins in four-wide final rounds in Las Vegas and Charlotte. While their competitors wanted a chance at glory, too, only three other drivers saw the inside of the winner’s circle in 2025: KB Titan’s Cory Reed and Elite Motorsports drivers Greg Stanfield and Erica Enders.

A glowing red light in round two at the NHRA New England Nationals was one of only a handful of blemishes on Glenn’s scorecard in a year that produced not a single first-round loss. In Seattle, at the racetrack where the Covington, Wash., native grew up, Glenn swept the event with a dominant performance that included a start from the No. 1 position, a reset of the track record with a pass that narrowly missed the national record for elapsed time (6.446), and a victory that vaulted him back to the top of the Pro Stock points, where he would remain for the rest of the season.

The Countdown to the Championship, where Glenn had lost grip of the moment last season, told a wholly different story in 2025. Glenn powered to victory in his RAD Torque Systems entry at four of the five playoff races. In all, he won eight races in 13 final rounds over the course of his championship season, and he did it with a powerful race car beneath him. Glenn notched No. 1 qualifying starts six times, locked down low elapsed time of the meet in three events, and five times sailed to top speed. Over the course of the season, the young driver remained steady and focused, with a characteristically cheerful attitude on full display.

Heading into the NHRA Finals, Glenn held a 92-point lead over Anderson. All he had to do was win the first round on Sunday and the title would be his. Mother Nature, though, had other plans. Two days of qualifying at the NHRA Finals were completely washed away, and when the storm persisted well into Sunday, the decision was made to call the race. Glenn was the champion without challenge, and although earned, it wasn’t the energy-packed moment he had expected.

“I wanted to race here,” said Glenn. “Especially when you have a car and a team as good as we’ve had this season. You almost don’t want it to end, even though you’re in the points lead and ending the season means you’re the champion. When the going is good, you gotta go get it. We had the car to beat, the team to beat, and we’ve been doing our job on and off the track.

“I do feel like I earned it. We didn’t have any gimmes or freebies, we went out there and earned every round. Even if the planets were aligned on some of them and I may not have driven my best at times, we did our homework and did all of the work off track so that we could have success on track,” he said.

Though vibrantly competitive, Glenn is a consistently even-keeled and rational racer, complementing the historic tone of a team with 210 Pro Stock wins and now 11 championships. In a manner true to KB Titan Racing form, there won’t be much rest over the winter, and Glenn sees zero problems with that. He wants to come out swinging at the season opener in Gainesville.

“I don’t feel like I’m going to be any different than I was this season,” said Glenn. “My ultimate goal is to win every race in a season. Everybody says, ‘You can’t win them all,’ but I always answer, ‘Why not?’ I’m going to learn from the experience I’ve had so far and try to win every round, every race, and every championship that I can.”