NHRA Champ Austin Prock Did WHAT This Offseason?!
Stacking Pennies with Corey LaJoie
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4.8 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Two-time NHRA Funny Car champion Austin Prock joins the show to talk about one of the most talked-about moves in drag racing.
After winning back-to-back championships, Prock made a huge offseason change. Leaving his family team to join Bob Tasca Racing.
He talks about:
- Why he made the move
- What the transition has been like
- The pressure of defending a championship
- Life inside the NHRA Funny Car world
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, we have a special edition. |
| 0:03.0 | Stackin' pennies, because it's not every day you get to talk to a fellow like this. |
| 0:05.9 | Doesn't come, doesn't live in town. |
| 0:07.9 | We talk to a lot of NASCAR winners. |
| 0:09.4 | We talk to some motorsports people. |
| 0:11.5 | We're broadening our horizons, if you will. |
| 0:23.1 | Stacking them deep, selling them cheap. |
| 0:26.4 | I taste like gasoline, grubber, and victory. |
| 0:27.2 | Where's that here? |
| 0:28.0 | Stagging back. |
| 0:34.8 | Back to back. |
| 0:36.3 | Defending and raining. |
| 0:39.3 | 30-year-old from Pittsburgh, Indiana, and town. |
| 0:54.6 | So we had to get him over here in the Nonsense Garage. Please help me welcome. Austin Prock. Cool. Thanks guys for having me. Man, you've had quite the exciting offseason, my friend. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a busy one to say the least. I'll be honest, man. obviously I am a, I would say that I'm a fringe NHRA fan. |
| 0:56.7 | I have a lot of friends. |
| 0:57.9 | Clay Milk. been a busy one to say the least i'll be honest man obviously i am a i would say that i'm a fringe |
| 0:54.7 | n-h-rary fan i have a lot of friends clay milkins a good friend so i keep up with it from afar right |
| 1:02.2 | and appreciate standing next to a dragster rifle off from the tristmas tree and blow your hair back |
| 1:10.0 | but i'll be honest. |
| 1:13.3 | When I did a quick Google search to do my research on you, I did not realize you had all the |
| 1:17.4 | stuff going on. I mean, you just assume, hey, back to back, two-time NHRA, funny car champ. |
| 1:23.2 | Just going to keep running her back. You got a whole family team. Nope, you packed it up. |
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