Ashley Force topped the qualifying field at the Lucas Oil Nationals in Brainerd, Minnesota. Ashley Force ran her Castrol GTX Mustang 4.110 seconds E.T. at 299.40 MPH to secure the position on Friday. Qualifying ended with four John Force racing cars in the top five positions. John Force qualified second with a [...]

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Tim Wilkerson continued his hold on the number one position in Fuel Funny Car championship points with his latest win at the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown, NJ. Wilkerson defeated Mike Neff by 0.010 seconds in the final round.
The win was bittersweet for Wilkerson, who in the winner’s circle, expressed the need to [...]

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John Force and Mike Neff started their engines. Both lurched closer to the starting line.
Then the flag dropped on the first race at zMAX Dragway @ Concord.
Sure, there was no pavement. There were no Ford Funny Cars.
What they did have were dump trucks and, technically, a track. So the drivers of the NHRA POWERade Series [...]

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Mike Neff and his John Medlen-tuned Old Spice Mustang grabbed the first No. 1 qualifying effort of his 10-race driving career at the O’Reilly NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee by holding onto the top spot courtesy of his Friday-night 4.783, but he did get a serious challenge from teammate Robert Hight, who based [...]

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BRISTOL (May 9, 2008) — Mike Neff and the Old Spice Ford Mustang team are once again looking for one round win as they head into Bristol Dragway for the 8th annual O’Reilly Thunder Valley NHRA Nationals.
This weekend instead of their first round win Neff and crew chief John Medlen are looking for their first [...]

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Top qualifier, Tim Wilkerson, won at the O’Reilly Midwest Nationals in Madison, IL. Wilkerson considers Gateway International Raceway in Madison to be his hometown track. This is the Levi, Ray & Shoup Chevy Impala’s fourth fast qualifier this season and second Wally win this year. Wilkerson’s win also bumps Ashley Force out [...]

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Old Spice, the No. 1 anti-perspirant/deodorant stick and body wash choice for guys in the United States, is joining forces with drag racing’s most successful Funny Car Team — John Force Racing, with rookie Funny Car driver Mike Neff behind the wheel of the new Old Spice Ford Mustang in the 2008 NHRA POWERade Drag [...]

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Jack Beckman beat Robert Hight to win his fourth Wally in Phoenix at the 24th annual Checker Schuck’s Kragen NHRA Nationals at Firebird International Raceway. Beckman qualified his Don Schumacher Racing, Valvoline,Mail Terminal Series Dodge 15th on Saturday. Jack Beckman out ran Mike Neff, then Gary Scelzi, and Jim Head (in that order). To get [...]

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The Ford BOSS 500 engine made its competition debut two weeks ago at the NHRA POWERade season-opener at Pomona in Mike Neff’s Old Spice Funny Car Mustang. Crew chief John Medlen says he was very encouraged by what the new engine showed.
JOHN MEDLEN – Crew Chief, No. 7701 Old Spice Ford Mustang Funny Car [...]

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Imagine for a moment that John Force, the most prolific drag racer in history, winner of 125 races and 14 championships, is pursuing you to drive one of his high-powered Funny Cars. You don’t have any experience driving one of the 7,000-horsepower beasts and yet he gives you a full two months to ponder the [...]

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