YORBA LINDA, CA – BrandSource and Ford Motor Company teamed-up with John Force Racing during the 2014 racing season to giveaway a new Ford Escape as the Grand Prize in the Win With Force Sweepstakes. Amy Abbott of Ohio, who signed up to win prizes at the race team midway display during the NHRA nationals in Norwalk, OH, was recently drawn as the Grand Prize winner of the new vehicle.

“I was very leery when I got the call that I had won; When I realized I had actually won the Ford Escape – I was extremely excited,” said Abbott. “I am a huge John Force Racing fan! We’re already making plans for our trip to the Norwalk races next year. We’re driving the SUV and I’m hoping John will autograph the dashboard for me!”

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ST LOUIS – It was a historic day for Traxxas backed Funny Car driver Courtney Force as she won for the second consecutive week jumping up to the No. 2 position in the Mello Yello Funny Car point standings. Force defeated Bob Tasca III, Del Worsham, John Force and finally Matt Hagan to win for the fourth time in 2014. The win is the seventh of her career which is a record for women in Funny Car and she is the first female to win back-to-back Funny Car races.  For her effort Scott Bessee of New Windsor, Illinois won a 55” flat screen TV courtesy of BrandSource and the “Win with Force” promotion.

“I think the good news is at least our team is making the right moves at the right time, right here in the Countdown to the Championship. It was tough going up against dad; I didn’t want to race him, but all I thought about was how he took me out in Charlotte and he didn’t feel bad, so I thought, ‘Alright, we’re going for it!’ Our Traxxas team got the win,” said Force.

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ENNIS, TX – Courtney Force qualified No. 1 at the 29th annual AAA Texas NHRAFallNationals at Texas Motorplex and she raced to the winner’s circle giving two different fans a front loading washer & dryer set and a TV from BrandSource and the Win with Force promotion.  This was Courtney’s third win of the season and sixth of her career, which are both records for female Funny Car drivers.

“I looked at the ladder and thought, ‘Man, I could be bumping into my teammates from second round, through the Semis,’ and I wasn’t about to have a weekend like last weekend in Charlotte when my dad took me out in the first round. It felt good to go some rounds out here today and end up in the Winner’s Circle,” said Force. “Definitely proud of my team; these guys have been working hard in this heat. It’s tough for them and I really appreciate everything they’ve done for me today. Thank you to (crew chiefs) Ron Douglas and Dan Hood for giving me a great race car in the heat and getting me down the race track on every run, and on both sides of the track; in the right and the left lane. I’m very proud of my team and glad that we could get this win for Traxxas in their home state of Texas.”

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – All season long John Force Racing and BrandSource have been showering NHRA fans across the country with washer & dryer sets and flat screen TVs through the BrandSource “Win with Force” promotion. To date JFR drivers have been No. 1 qualifier ten times and have put a race car in the NHRA winner’s circle ten times. Mello Yello points leader John Force has won three times and been No. 1 qualifier five times with his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford.

Robert Hight and the Auto Club Mustang have been in five winner’s circles and been No. 1 qualifier once. The Traxxas Ford Mustang and Courtney Force have two wins and three No. 1s followed by sister Brittany Force and the Castrol EDGE Top Fuel dragster with three No. 1 qualifiers, twice this season Brittany and Courtney have shared the No.1 qualifier stage.

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SONOMA, CA – Courtney Force qualified No. 1 at the 27th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals at Sonoma Raceway and for the third time in her career she won from the top spot to once again give a lucky fan a TV from BrandSource and the Win with Force promotion. The youngest Force also became the winningest female Funny Car driver picking up her fifth career win passing sister Ashley Force Hood (4 Funny Car wins) in the record books. Courtney, the 2012 NHRA Auto Club Rookie of the Year, outran her teammate and father 4.253 seconds to 4.405 seconds in the 44th all JFR final round.

“I think about way too many things when I’m against dad. Normally I’m calm and collected and I think whatever is going to happen will happen, but I was so wanting this win that I was thinking don’t screw up on the light, don’t red light, don’t pull in too deep. I wanted to pull in deep, but I didn’t want to light the red light and just ruin it for my team. I was nervous. I just didn’t want to screw up and it was just one of those deals where I just wanted to go and get this car straight down the track and do my job as a driver. I knew everyone would be looking at me so I just didn’t want to screw it up for us,” said Force, a two-time winner in 2014.

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DENVER, CO – John Force qualified No. 1 at the 35^th annual Mopar Mile High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway but he came up a few tenths of a second short from getting the BrandSource double up when Robert Hight got the win light today. Hight, the 2009 Funny Car champion, outran his teammate and boss 4.166 seconds to 5.953 seconds in the 43^rd all JFR final round.

When John Force solidified his No. 1 qualifier status Daniel Price of Westminster, Colorado won the washer and dryer from BrandSource. Twenty four hours later Christ Angelos (in attached photo) of Colorado Springs, Colorado won a 55” TV as part of the Win with Force promotion.

“(This win) shows that we work well as a team. We work together. I knew we were going to give the fans quite a race. For four runs in qualifying we were side by side. John went down the track all of them. A lot of the success this weekend goes back to John Bandimere. I call this the coolest track in the country because it has the cooling system under the racing surface. If you didn’t have that system there would be a lot of tire smoke,” said Robert Hight, a five time winner in 2014.

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NORWALK, OH – NHRA Funny Car champion John Force won for the second time in 2014 and for the first time at famed Summit Motorsports Park on Sunday July 6^th. The legendary driver had never taken his Castrol GTX High Mileage Funny Car to the winner’s circle at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in seven previous attempts but the eighth time was the charm. Force out raced Tim Wilkerson, Chad Head, Cruz Pedregon and finally Ron Capps to get his 140^th career win.

The win put a 55” flat screen TV in the hands of Chad Vanbuskirk of Urbana, Ohio, compliments of BrandSource and the “Win with Force” promotion. This was the seventh win for John Force Racing this season.

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EPPING, NH – Robert Hight raced to his first No. 1 qualifier of the season at the 2^nd annual Auto-Plus New England NHRA Nationals this weekend. It was Hight’s 46^th career No. 1 and his second with crew chief Mike Neff. Hight has now joined all his JFR teammates with at least one No. 1 this season. It is the first time all four JFR drivers have earned No. 1s in the same season.

Hight’s No. 1 time was a track record elapsed time of 3.988 seconds on Friday night and it was the first three second run at New England Dragway. It was the 27^th three second run in NHRA history and Hight has run in the threes on three occasions this season.

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BRISTOL, TN – Brittany Force raced to the No. 1 qualifying position for the second time in her career today at the 14^th annual Ford Thunder Valley NHRA Nationals. Brittany’s category quickest elapsed time of 3.828 seconds at 317.94 mph put her in front of veterans J.R. Todd, Tony Schumacher and Antron Brown to round out the top four in Top Fuel.

With Brittany’s No. 1 effort Doug Watson of Madisonville, Tennessee, won a front loading washer and dryer as part of the BrandSource “Win with Force” promotion. This is the fifth different race a John Force Racing driver has been No. 1 qualifier and three weeks ago it was Brittany and sister Courtney Force as dual No. 1s in Top Fuel and Funny Car.

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TOPEKA, KS – Courtney Force and the Traxxas Ford Mustang made more history at the 26^th annual NHRA Kansas Nationals racing to victory and claiming the 100^th pro win by a female in the history of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. Force outran Cruz Pedregon in the final after dispatching Dale Creasy Jr., Jeff Arend, and Tommy Johnson Jr. leading up to the final.

“I think my rookie year I didn’t know where I was supposed to be. I didn’t have any frame of reference as far as the Mello Yello points. Now I know when we are at this point in the season we all start thinking about how this was so different than last year or the year before in my rookie season. That starts to weigh on you. Getting to the final last weekend was huge accomplishment,” said Courtney Force on reflecting on how important this win was. “All my guys told me they cheered just because they got to the final. It just means that our Funny Car is turning around and we are getting things turned around. Next weekend is a new weekend in Englishtown and it will be a new weekend to get after it again. Robert has had so many finals in a row I was shocked to not see him beside me.  For John Force Racing it was a huge milestone too.”

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