BROWNSBURG, IN – Three-time Funny Car winner Courtney Force and Road to the Future nominee Brittany Force will be racing unique paint schemes at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading for the 29^th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The John Force Racing drivers will be supporting Lionel Racing’s “Paint the Track Pink” program in support of breast cancer research. Through this special promotion, die-cast manufacturer, Lionel Racing will contribute a portion of the proceeds from each program die-cast sold to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Sophomore sensation Courtney Force ran a similar paint scheme during her 2012 rookie season and is excited to participate for such a unique cause. Last year the Traxxas Pink die-cast sold almost as well as Courtney’s standard paint scheme die-cast and was the second best-selling NHRA special of 2012. Over one million people were reached online and through social impressions. In addition the program received national media coverage throughout the month of October.

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MADISON, IL – John Force picked up his 136^th career Funny Car win today at the second annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. This is JFR’s sixth win of the season; the second for driver of the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car and fifteen-time world champion, John Force.

The 17-time championship team was able to give away a 55” flat screen TV to lucky fan Marsha Smith of Philo, Ill. compliments of BrandSource and the “Win with Force” promotion.

“We are working as a team and it is really cool. I have been struggling on the tree and Robert Hight has been working with me on getting me comfortable in the car. I gave away two trophies for this win. I gave one to Jim McGrath, the president of AAA Missouri and one to Jimmy Prock,” said Force, from the winner’s circle stage. “I also gave away a flat screen TV thanks to Brandsource. This is the second win for me this season and second TV I have been able to win for a fan. The fans are why we are out here so this is awesome.”

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Madison, IL – John Force, the winningest driver in NHRA history, continues to add to his expanding legacy. Today at the 2nd annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Force defeated long-time rival Jack Beckman in a final for the ages taking the win light by .013 seconds or six feet to capture his 136th career Funny Car title. This was Force’s sixth final round in the last twelve races and his first win with crew chief Jimmy Prock.

“You have to start with Jimmy Prock but it is the brain trust. Jimmy gave me a good hot rod,” said Force, a three-time winner at Gateway Motorsports Park. “I was losing some races but Robert worked in that cockpit with me to get me comfortable. I have been guilty of getting overloaded and not focusing on my race car. Now I have people like Just Marketing, Octagon, and Rogers & Cowan working for me so I can focus on winning. You have to live this race car every day.”

Force moved into second place in the Mello Yello Funny Car point standings just six points behind points leader Matt Hagan. This is the highest Force and the Castrol GTX team has been in the point standings since Force won his 15^th Funny Car championship in 2010.

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Madison, IL – The 2013 season has had its ups and downs for John Force Racing but this weekend at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals the on-track performance was the best of the year with the three Funny Car qualifying in the top four and the Castrol EDGE Top Fuel dragster qualifying No. 5 going into eliminations. Led by AAA Insurance backed Robert Hight in the No. 2 spot followed by John Force and Courtney Force the three JFR Ford Mustang Funny Cars were some of the most consistent and dominant this weekend.

On Saturday the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang driven by John Force was the quickest of the first session and second quickest of the last session of the day. In the first session Force blasted to the best of session elapsed time of 4.063 seconds as the sun beat down on the Gateway Motorsports Park track. As the conditions improved and cloud cover rolled in Force’s crew chief Jimmy Prock stepped up the tune-up and saw an immediate improvement in performance with a 4.047 second run.

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Madison, IL – On the first day of the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals the three John Force Racing Ford Mustang Funny Cars

set the pace of the field provisionally qualifying No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 after two sessions. Led by 2010 AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals champion Robert Hight with a 4.022 second run the JFR Funny Cars made a strong impression on the near capacity crowd.

Hight smoked the tires in his first run and was relegated to run early in the second session. The AAA Insurance Funny Car made the most of their opportunity on a well prepped track blasting to the top of the field with a 4.022 second run that established the track record for elapsed time. Only Matt Hagan was quicker running 4.001 seconds in the last pair with JFR teammate Courtney Force.

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Madison, IL – Robert Hight and the AAA Ford Mustang team closed the gap on points leader Matt Hagan with a semi-final finish at last weekend’s AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals. Hight will continue to try and reel in Hagan as well as Dallas winner Cruz Pedregon while he holds off a charging 15-time Funny Car champion John Force at this weekend’s AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals. With four races left in the Countdown to the Championship Hight is poised to make a strong run for his second NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car Championship.

“I said at the beginning of the Countdown if you wanted to have a chance to win the championship you would need to win two or three races at least and get to the semi-finals at the other races. We won in Charlotte and moved from 9^th to 3^rd and in Dallas we had a great race car which made it to the semi-finals,” said Hight.

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Madison, IL – With just four NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing national events left, Courtney Force sits No. 8 in the Funny Car point standings and is hoping to advance this weekend at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park, Sept. 27-29.

“Having only raced at this track once before in 2012 makes no difference to me. The pressure is definitely on since it is one of the last races in the countdown, but we qualified well at Gateway last year and I’m hoping our Traxxas Ford Mustang team can keep the momentum going,” said Force.

Most- recently, Force qualified No. 5, but suffered a devastating first round upset to her father at the NHRA Fall Nationals in Dallas, causing her to drop two spots in the point standings.

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MADISON, IL – John Force taught his three youngest daughters how to drive 10,000 horsepower race cars capable of zero-to-300 mile-an-hour acceleration in less than 4.00 seconds but, as the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship moves this week to Gateway Motorsports Park, the sport’s biggest winner admits that he recently had to apply the same lessons to himself.

“I was so busy teaching my kids that I forgot how to drive myself,” joked the 135-time tour winner who, after struggling with his starting line routine during last July’s three-race Western Swing, once again has muscled his way into title contention.

Entering this week’s 16^th annual AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals (or, second, if one is to believe the NHRA’s math), Force finds himself just three rounds behind pacesetting Matt Hagan with four playoff races remaining.

That’s not too bad for a 64-year-old who admits that he’s had a bit of trouble adapting to a new race car in this, his 36^th season on the NHRA tour.

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ST. LOUIS, MS – As the season winds down, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series returns to the Midwest for the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park Sept. 27-29.  As for Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future candidate Brittany Force, this will be new track for the Top Fuel driver to conquer.

Coming off her third consecutive race of qualifying in the top ten, Force and her Castrol EDGE team are looking to continue riding that momentum. In the process, she also claimed her sixth career round win this past weekend in Dallas.

“Overall, I think the weekend went awesome for the Castrol EDGE team,” Force said. “We’re excited about it. Just getting that first round win gets me pumped up and motivated and it’s the same with my team and crew chiefs. We’re still moving in the right direction. We leave Dallas with some good runs and another round win under our belt.”

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ENNIS, Texas (September 22, 2013) – Today at the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals, Robert Hight qualified No. 1 for the 45^th time in his career and set a track record at the Texas Motorplex when he raced his AAA Texas Ford Mustang Funny Car to low of the round 4.052 seconds.

Hight was in the last pair of Funny cars running beside the provisional No. 1 racer Cruz Pedregon when he posted his record run. As an added bonus, Hight was able to give away a front-loading washer and dryer set away to a lucky John Force Racing fan, Clayton Junek, of Temple, Texas, courtesy for BrandSource and the “Win with Force” promotion.

“You want to do well at your sponsor’s race and you especially want to give away the washer and dryer with the ‘Win with Force’ promotion. Mike Neff my crew chief races so smart. I have a lot of confidence and would love to get a win on Sunday to go with the No. 1 qualifier,” said Hight.

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