Force, happy to be back to racing, is already counting many victories
Fourteen-time Funny Car champion John Force didn't lose his flair for the dramatic or his passion for NHRA POWERade drag racing in last September's dramatic accident that sidelined him for four months. He thrilled the faithful at the season-opening CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals by waiting until the last qualifying session to make the field and then racing through to the semifinals in typical Force fashion.
The winner of a record 125 NHRA national events also touted the numerous safety changes in the Funny Car class that his team, along with NHRA, is spearheading and addressed the concerns of the naysayers who are resistant to change. It's obvious Force is more concerned about building a better car than he is with...
Read Rob Geiger's full interview with John Force at NHRA.com
Tags: drag racing, Force, Funny Car, John Force, NHRA, Powerade, racing, safetyNHRA: Winning Funny Car built for safety
John Force proved you don't have to slow down to be safe in the NHRA.
Driving a revolutionary Funny Car designed to help bring the class into the 21st century, Robert Hight defeated Cruz Pedregon by 7 feet in the Funny Car final to give John Force Racing its 18th victory at Auto Club Raceway.
Hight clocked in 4.861 seconds at 284.39 mph in the NHRA season opener, which was slightly quicker than...
Read full story by Damian Dottore in The Orange County Register
Tags: Cruz Pedregon, Force, Funny Car, Hight, John Force, NHRA, Pedregon, race, racing, Robert Hight, safetyFunny Car driver also in cash race
Perhaps the most competitive battleground in the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series is in its Funny Car class, and miles per hour aren't the defining standard.
The real competition involves sponsorships and the cubic dollars racers spend in an effort to not only go fast, but win a championship. The cars, capable of covering the Pomona Raceway quarter-mile drag strip at the Winternationals in a few ticks over four seconds and reaching speeds of 330 mph, are the focal point in sponsor...
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Tags: drag racing, Funny Car, NHRA, Pomona, Powerade, race, racingPedregon sent for evaluation after first-round incident
Defending NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series Funny Car champ Tony Pedregon was transported to Pomona Valley Medical Center Hospital for evaluation after his Q Horsepower Chevy Impala suffered an engine explosion ...
Tags: Chevy, drag racing, Funny Car, NHRA, Pedregon, Pomona, Powerade, racing, Tony PedregonNHRA icon leading the push for improved chassis
POMONA - Few would argue John Force is the most popular ever in drag racing and the most dominant driver in the 56-year history of NHRA.
Fourteen time NHRA funny car champion John Force is coming back from the worst year of his racing career...
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Tags: drag racing, Force, Funny Car, John Force, NHRA, Pomona, racingTroxel makes presence felt – Los Angeles Times
Former top fuel driver ranks third for today's finals in funny car at the Winternationals, but her husband fails to make the field of 16.
She is married to funny car driver Tommy Johnson Jr., and when she made the off-season transition from top fuel dragsters to the class in which her husband competes, much was made of Melanie Troxel's marriage...
Read the full story by Martin Henderson in the L.A. Times
Tags: Funny Car, Johnson, Melanie Troxel, Tommy Johnson, Top FuelNHRA has questions to answer – San Diego Union Tribune
Auto Racing DailyNHRA has questions to answerSan Diego Union Tribune, United States - 8 hours ago"We matched or broke every attendance record last year, but to be honest I don't know where the NHRA is going right now," Carlsbad Funny Car driver Ron ...
Toliver qualifies No. 2 at Winternationals Autochannel (press release)A broken valve holds Wilkerson back in the opening round of Pomona ...
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Tags: Funny Car, NHRA, Pomona, racing, Wilkerson, WinternationalsYorkville’s Burkart waiting for another chance in NHRA
YORKVILLE – Bring up his future as a Funny Car drag racer, and going nowhere, fast, isn’t what Yorkville’s Phil Burkart Jr. has in mind.
“It’s about the dream that you choose and how far you’re willing to go to chase it, and I’m flying thousands of miles to chase mine,” said Burkart a few days ago, before leaving for California and the 2008 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) series opener at Pomona Raceway....
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Tags: Burkart, Funny Car, NHRA, Phil Burkart, Pomona, race