Dallas Glenn is one of the many sportsman racers who have dreamed getting a chance to race in the NHRA “big show” as a professional and when that opportunity arose, he took the ball and ran with it and now, Glenn is the 2024 Mission Foods NHRA Pro Stock World Champion.

“It’s definitely really special, especially after getting so close last year,” Glenn said. “It’s kind of a very strange way of getting it. You don’t have all the adrenaline 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, but 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 it feels really good right now. Theres just lot of stuff, a lot of emotions and and just trying to process everything.”

Glenn left the recent Dodge NHRA Nevada Nationals in Las Vegas leading KB Titan teammate Greg Anderson by 92 points and officially locked up the title when the season ending Pomona event was cancelled due to rain. He is the 20th driver to win an NHRA Pro Stock world title and the first new champ since Tanner Gray in 2018.

For Glenn, clinching his first world title helps take the sting out of the 2024 season where he lost a winner-take-all final round against Anderson by just two-thousandths of a second in one of the sport’s most memorable finishes.

“You know, I get to race all next season with number one on my car. I get to take it from Greg, take it off of Greg’s car, put it on mine,” Glenn said. “We get to swap numbers.”

As a sportsman racer growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Glenn’s talent has always been undeniable. He scored a national event win in Super Gas at the 2011 Northwest Nationals and also had a successful run in Stock Eliminator.

After joining the KB Titan team first as a crewmember, Glenn got his chance to drive a Pro Stock car in 2021, and it took him just four events to find the winner’s circle at the 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte. Glenn went on to win two more events in 2021 en route to a third-place finish behind class icons Greg Anderson and Erica Enders. He went on to win the Rookie of the Year award in a landslide.

Pro Stock cars are extremely difficult to drive, but Glenn has never once looked out of place in a 6-second, factory hot rod, and his penchant for quick reaction times and multiple holeshot wins has led to the nickname “Double-O Dallas.”

Since his successful debut season, Glenn has only reinforced the notion that he’s among the Pro Stock’s all-time greats.  Through the first 91 races of his career, he’s got 21 wins in 40 final rounds and has an enviable 185-69 record in elimination rounds.

The pain of losing a championship on the final run of the 2024 season clearly lit a fire under Glenn as he’s enjoyed the best year of his career in 2025. Glenn kicked off the season in the best way possible with a win at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals and he’s since tacked on wins in Seattle, Reading, Dallas, in addition to both Las Vegas and both Charlotte events.

Glenn finished with a 50-9 record in elimination rounds and he’s the only tour regular who did not endure a single round one loss. He was also never ranked lower than No. 2 at any point during the season.

Glenn has earned the respect of his peers, and the admiration of fans, largely because he’s more than just a hired driver. He still works daily at the KB Titan headquarters in Mooresville, N.C. and gets his hands dirty after every run working as a mechanic on the KB Titan team’s expansive fleet of Pro Stock entries. Glenn even drives a team transporter from event to event. He also remains humble, and grateful for the opportunity to pursue his dreams.

“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 goings good, you got to go get it. We’ve had the car to beat, we’ve had the team to beat. We’ve been doing our job, on and off track.”