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John Force
Force at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2024
Nationality
American
Born
(1949-05-04) May 4, 1949 (age 75) Bell Gardens, California, U.S.
16 NHRA Championships (see left) 1 AHRA Championship (1984)[3]
Last updated on: September 4, 2019.
John Harold Force (born May 4, 1949) is an American NHRA drag racer. He is a 16-time NHRA and 1 time AHRA Funny Car champion driver and a 22-time champion car owner. Force owns and drives for John Force Racing (JFR). He is one of the most dominant drag racers in the sport with 156 career victories.[6] He graduated from Bell Gardens High School and briefly attended Cerritos Junior College to play football.[7] He is the father of drag racers Ashley Force Hood, Brittany Force, and Courtney Force. His oldest daughter Adria Hight is the CFO of JFR.
Current drivers racing for Force's team are son-in-law Robert Hight, and daughter Brittany. Mike Neff was crew chief for John two separate times. Effective July 2013 Jimmy Prock replaced Mike Neff as crew chief,[8] and Mike Neff became crew chief for Robert Hight. Neff, who was once the crew chief for rival driver Gary Scelzi, raced in a 4th Funny Car for JFR from October 26, 2007, following the death of Eric Medlen, until the end of the 2009 season. However, in 2010, after a 2009 season in which Force did not win a single race, Force parked his 4th car, and named Neff as his new crew chief instead. This decision resulted in Force winning his 15th NHRA Championship. His nickname among several of the drivers, as well as several announcers within the sport of drag racing is "Brute Force", a nickname he earned by his dominating wins during his run of ten straight NHRA championships. Force, his daughters, Courtney, Ashley, and Brittany, and son-in-law Robert Hight are collectively known as "The First Family of Drag Racing".
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^National Hot Rod Association - John Force, Retrieved Aug, 6, 2018.
^ abBangShift.com, Dead Strip Walking: Watch John Force Run At US 30 Drag Strip In 1984 – Gone Forever Months Later by Brian Lohnes, May 29, 2018, Retrieved Sep. 4, 2019.
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^"NHRA Arizona Nationals Saturday Qualifying Results, Sunday Elimination pairings". Auto Week. February 24, 2018. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
^"John Force earns 149th win; Pritchett, Anderson, Arana Jr. Snag Denver victories".
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^"Changing things up, and I ain't dead yet". Autoweek. July 21, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
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