The four-time champion will skip the final two races of 2025, citing family priorities and business commitments.
With no defiant declarations like, “We’re not going out without a fight,” and with no notions of making any heroic runs, four-time Top Fuel champion Steve Torrence is leaving the 2025 competition after this weekend’s Texas Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex, at Ennis.
The Kilgore, Texas, driver and 56-time winner quietly confirmed that he will opt out of the final two races of the Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season. He said he will skip the Las Vegas race in three weeks and the November 14-16 season finale at Pomona, California, because of changing priorities with his growing family and his parents’ pipeline construction company.
“With the championship pretty much out of our reach, going out west for the last two races really didn’t make much sense—especially since we have holidays coming up that we all want to make special for the girls (daughters Haven and Harper),” Steve Torrence said.
He and father Billy Torrence, who have been a Whack-A-Mole-style force in the Top Fuel class during recent years, still have the chance to extend to 14 the number of consecutive seasons in which they have started at least one event from the No. 1 position.
Steve Torrence has not led the field in 25 events, not since the August 2024 race at Brainerd, Minnesota. Billy Torrence’s last No. 1 start was at Reading, Pennsylvania, in 2021 when he won for the most recent time. But Steve Torrence said he isn’t concerned with that at all.
Steve Torrence already declined to enter four regular-season events, and for his dad, this weekend’s Texas Fall Nationals is just the third Top Fuel appearance of the season.
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