Pruett grew up competing in drag racing and made her mark across multiple NHRA classes before reaching the pinnacle of Top Fuel. Prior to her Top Fuel debut, she competed in Pro Mod and Nostalgia Funny Car, winning the 2010 Nostalgia Funny Car title in the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series. This foundation across different drag racing disciplines gave her a versatile technical understanding that proved valuable as she advanced to the most powerful class in the sport.
Pruett debuted in NHRA Top Fuel in 2013 with Dote Racing, spending her first three seasons building experience and finishing outside the top ten in championship points. Her breakthrough came in 2016 when she claimed her first career national event win on February 28 at the Carquest Auto Parts NHRA Nationals in Chandler, Arizona. That victory was historically significant: she defeated Brittany Force in the final round, marking the first all-female Top Fuel final since 1982. She finished seventh in points that year.
She followed up with her strongest championship runs in subsequent seasons: fifth in 2017 with four wins, and fourth in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Her 2017 wins came at the Winternationals, Chandler, Houston, and Brainerd. In 2018 she won at Atlanta and Denver. A Brainerd win highlighted her 2019 campaign.
In October 2021, Pruett was announced as the Top Fuel driver for Tony Stewart Racing, the team co-owned by former NASCAR champion Tony Stewart, who had become her fiancé. She joined the team for 2022 and turned in some of her most consistent late-career performances: finishing third in 2023 championship points with two wins at Norwalk and Texas.
Pruett also claimed the NHRA SAMTech Factory Stock Showdown championship in 2019, the first title for Don Schumacher Racing in that class and the first season the team competed in it. She remains the only female champion in Factory Stock Showdown history.
Pruett's Top Fuel record across eleven full seasons showed steady improvement from her early years to competitive title contention:
2013: 15th (0 wins)
2014: 14th (0 wins)
2015: 14th (0 wins)
2016: 7th (1 win — Chandler)
2017: 5th (4 wins — Winternationals, Chandler, Houston, Brainerd)
2018: 4th (2 wins — Atlanta, Denver)
2019: 4th (1 win — Brainerd)
2020: 4th (0 wins)
2021: 7th (1 win — Winternationals)
2022: 11th (1 win — Denver)
2023: 3rd (2 wins — Norwalk, Texas)
Her career total stands at 11 Top Fuel wins and 3 Pro Modified wins for 14 national event victories.
Pruett stepped back from racing after the 2023 season. In 2024, Tony Stewart took over her Top Fuel seat at Tony Stewart Racing while the couple planned to start a family. Their son, Dominic James Stewart, was born on November 16, 2024.
Pruett was previously married to Todd LeDuc, an off-road racer and Monster Jam truck driver. She later married Gary Pritchett, an NHRA Top Fuel crew member, in 2013, and filed for divorce in 2019. She and Tony Stewart announced their engagement in March 2021 and married on November 21, 2021, in Los Cabos, Mexico. She is not related to multi-series racing driver Scott Pruett.
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