John Force Racing
FORCE’S LATEST ‘SHAKE UP’ PAYING DIVIDENDS
SEATTLE, WA – John Force hasn’t stayed on top of his game the last quarter century by being unwilling to change.
However, the 15-time champion’s most recent moves were extreme, even by his standards, and yet, entering this week’s 26th annual O’Reilly Northwest Nationals, Force once more is beginning to look like a chess master after swapping crew chiefs, crews and race cars with teammate and son-in-law Robert Hight.
“Sometimes, you just have to shake things up,” explained the Hall of Fame inductee (Motorsports Hall of Fame of American in 2008 and International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2012). “You gotta get the right people in the right place.”
As a result, Mike Neff, who won the NHRA championship with Force in 2010 and started the season with the 135-time tour winner, now is making the performance decisions for Hight on the Auto Club Ford.
Conversely, Jimmy Prock, who took Hight to the championship in 2009, now is turning the wrenches for Force on the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang.
HIGHT GETTING CLOSER TO FIRST WIN OF 2013
SEATTLE, WA – Robert Hight was cruising to his third semi-final appearance of the season in the second round when a fire-bottle 
deployed and his Auto Club Ford Mustang hazed the tires. As Hight slowed down Alexis DeJoria sped past the 2009 Funny Car champion and into a semi-final match-up with John Force.
“That was a tough loss for sure. Miek Neff had this Auto Club Ford Mustang flying. We ran 4.01 in the first round and I didn’t think there was anything that could have stopped us from getting our first win of the season. It was just a fluke deal with the fire bottle and honestly if something like that has to happen I would rather it happen now instead of the Countdown,” said Hight.
With Hight’s first round win over Bob Tasca III Hight moved back into the Top Ten heading into the O’Reilly Northwest NHRA Nationals at Pacific Raceway. Hight and Tasca have been trading the tenth and eleventh spot in the Mello Yello point standings for over a month. Neither driver has been able to pull away and solidify a Top Ten position in the points. The 8th through 11th spot in the points are separated by twenty-five points which is barely over a round of racing.
COURTNEY FORCE HEADS TO SEATTLE – Sight of First Funny Car Win
KENT, WA– One last event stands between Courtney Force and the completion of the “Western Swing.” The 26th annual O’Reilly Auto 
Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals will run Aug. 2-4 at Pacific Raceways, the site of her first NHRA national event win in the Funny Car category.
“Seattle is one of my favorite race tracks on the circuit. I’m really looking forward to racing at Pacific Raceways this year,” said Force. “I’ve won there twice. It was my first win in Top Alcohol Dragster and my first win in Funny Car just last season. I’m excited to get back there this week. Hopefully we can have our Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car going rounds.
Last weekend in Sonoma, Force took out Cruz Pedregon before getting a holeshot win over Jack Beckman and driving her car to the semi-final round, where her Traxxas Ford Mustang had a fuel system malfunction and blew the burst panel off.
“Sonoma was pretty good to us, and we just had a tough break there at the end of the race weekend. We’re finishing up the Western Swing. We moved up a little bit back in Sonoma so hopefully we’ll have just as good luck as we had last year at Pacific Raceways. I am confident in my team and car for this weekend in Seattle. This is my lucky track, so we’re going to go there, do our jobs and hopefully pick up our third win on the season,” said Force.
JFR’S TOP FUEL PILOT BRITTANY FORCE PREPARES FOR FINAL RACE OF WESTERN SWING
SEATTLE, WA – The final race on the Western Swing is fast approaching and John Force Racing, is hungry to get a win Seattle at the 
O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals. For Top Fuel rookie Brittany Force and her entire Castrol EDGE team, the motivation and persistency keeps them pushing harder to claim their first win.
Force, the second youngest daughter of 15-time Funny Car champion John Force, has proven herself thus far in the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season. With strong, consistent runs and amazing comebacks in qualifying, it’s that kind of hard work that leads to wins.
One of those amazing comebacks came last week in Sonoma, California, when after three qualifying sessions, Force was not in the show. However, crew chiefs Dean Antonelli and Eric Lane, along with Richard Hogan and her entire team tuned the Castrol EDGE just right and was able to pull off a great run to qualify for the event.
“It’s always stressful when you have to get in on your last qualifying pass,” Force said. “I have a great team behind me and great crew chiefs, so I was confident that they put together a good car and that we were going to get down there.”
JOHN FORCE RUNNER-UP AT SONOMA NATIONALS
SONOMA, CA -John Force was racing for his 8th win at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals today against veteran Ron Capps. It was Force’s 
fourth final round in the last six races this season and even though he came up on the wrong side of the ET slip the 15-time Funny Car champion was not hanging his head.
“I have no complaints. (Crew chief) Jimmy Prock brought this Prock Rocket back. I wasn’t where I should have been today on the tree. I thought I could get there. We’ll go to Seattle. I’ll work that gym harder and get up again. Ron Capps is a good driver but I had the best race car,” said Force after the final round.
Force has seven wins at Sonoma Raceway and this was his twelfth final round at the Northern California race track. His career record versus Capps stands at 44-26 and his final round record is 8-7 now.
JFR IN TOP HALF HEADING INTO SONOMA RACE DAY
SONOMA, CA – It was a strong showing by John Force Racing today at Sonoma Raceway. Team leader and seven-time NHRA Sonoma 
Nationals winner John Force led the team as the No. 4 qualifier and showed that he will be a force to be reckoned with on race day. His Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car was the quickest Funny Car of both sessions today earning six valuable qualifying bonus points.
“We got a good ole hot rod, The Prock Rocket! Sometimes change is good. Mike Neff is doing great, ran 4.07 and Courtney ran 4.07, but they had a problem there in the final run. I’m going to go find out what happened. I ran for a couple of sessions, but tomorrow’s race day. I ran 4.06 today and an 4.02 last night. My biggest highlight is my daughter Brittany (Force) in that dragster. Pulling it out right there at the end in the Castrol EDGE dragster and making the show. I’m so excited about that,” said Force.
JOHN FORCE LEADS JFR ON FRIDAY AT SONOMA
SONOMA, CA – John Force and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang team led the way for Team JFR posting the 4th quickest elapsed time at 
the 26th annual NHRA Sonoma Nationals. Force piloted his Jimmy Prock tuned Funny Car to a blistering time of 4.025 seconds at 316.60 mph. Matt Hagan is the provisional No. 1 qualifier with a track record 3.986 second elapsed time.
This was the second race for Force to drive with his new crew chief and the 15-time Funny Car champion continues to be positive about his decision to shake up his teams. Prior to the Mile High Nationals in Denver last week Force announced he would be driving for world champion crew chief Jimmy Prock and teammate Robert Hight would switch to running a Mike Neff tuned Funny Car.
“Well our cars are up there in the top half. It’s too early to tell what it shows. The dragster was trying too hard, so we’ll see what happens tomorrow,” said Force.
HE AIN’T BEAUTIFUL, BUT HE’S STILL BOLD
SONOMA, CA – John Force doesn’t really understand all the fuss over daughter Courtney’s photo spread in ESPN The Magazine’s latest 
“Body Issue.” After all, the 25-year-old wasn’t the first Force family member to pose sans seven layer Simpson firesuit.
Force himself did so in 2011, posing in the altogether for a sidebar entitled “The Body You Don’t Want” that focused on the numerous injuries suffered by the 15-time NHRA champion in a horrific 2007 crash at an NHRA event in Texas that led to the first complete re-design of the Funny Car chassis in 25 years.
Fortunately for the elder Force, the championship at this week’s 26th annual Sonoma Nationals won’t be decided by either the application of the universal body fat index, which would certainly favor Courtney and others, nor by an arbitrary “hotness” factor which, again, would leave him lacking.
HIGHT HAS SIGHTS ON SONOMA SUCCESS AND TAKING AIM AT GETTING 300 FOR NEFF
SONOMA, CA – The 26th annual Sonoma NHRA Nationals at Sonoma Raceway hold a special place in many racers and fans memories. 
For Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang team their pinnacle of success in the Wine Country was winning the event in 2008 a year after they lost teammate Eric Medlen in a testing accident the previous season. Medlen was the defending Sonoma National champion and Hight picked up the win to keep the John Force Racing win streak going. The next year John Force took home the Wally.
As the teams reach the midpoint of the Western Swing Hight has his sights on another Sonoma NHRA Nationals win and he has a new team to possibly take him to the top. Paired with two-time world championship crew chief Mike Neff for the rest of the season Hight is fired up to bring high performance to Sonoma Raceway.
“We really ran well in Denver and that is tough to do on the mountain top. We were the quickest of two of the four qualifying sessions and we almost made it to the finals. We are battling at the bottom of the top ten and we want to be solidly in the top ten leaving Sonoma. We think that is a realistic goal,” said Hight, finalist earlier this season in Topeka.
TOP FUEL ROOKIE BRITTANY FORCE LOOKS FOR CONTINUED SUCCESS AT SONOMA
SONOMA, CA – Road to the Future candidate Brittany Force looks to continue riding that momentum from Denver as she travels to 
Sonoma Raceway for the second race of the Western Swing on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series circuit.
The Castrol EDGE top fuel pilot is coming off her best race of the season, qualifying third for the national event as well as earning her fifth career round win against fellow competitor Scott Palmer. In the process, Force debuted a brand new, lighter dragster with several changes. Despite the changes, she feels they contributed to the team’s success.
“I’m glad we had that first run in Denver to adjust to the new car without the canopy,” Force said. “We only took it to half-track on the first run, but it was something I needed as a driver. Now after making some passes in it, I feel good about it.”
