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May 20, 2013
John Force got some old results from a new chassis at the Kansas Nationals where his Castrol GTX Mustang set a Heartland Park track record of 4.043 seconds and led Team
May 19, 2013
TOPEKA, Kan. (Read more
May 18, 2013
TOPEKA, KS (May 18, 2013) – It was a banner day for John Force Racing as qualifying for the 25th annual NHRA Kansas Nat
May 17, 2013
TOPEKA, KS (May 17, 2013) – It is only the first day of the NHRA Kansas Nationals but it was a great day for Robert Hight and
May 12, 2013
Although it involved dodging a few more rain showers, Brittany Force got her second round win in the Castrol EDGE Top Fuel dragster by beating Clay Millican in the rain-delayed conclusion of the Summit Southern Nationals
May 11, 2013
COMMERCE, GA ---- The NHRA rescheduled the 33rd Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals after rain washed out last weekend’s event after only four pairs of Pro Stock cars made passes last Friday. Cont
May 10, 2013
COMMERCE, GA (May 10, 2013) – With only one day to get down the track and get qualified for the rescheduled 33rd annual
May 08, 2013
Kansas City, Kan. (May 8, 2013) – Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing series, attended the Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition hosted by AAA Missouri today
May 06, 2013
Heavy rain at Atlanta Dragway washed out the Summit Southern Nationals and sent 15-time champ John Force inside to celebrate his birt
May 04, 2013
COMMERCE, GA (May 4, 2013) --- Rain forced the NHRA to postpone the 33Read more
May 03, 2013
COMMERCE, GA (May 3, 2013) --- Persistent rain showers forced the NHRA to cancel Friday’s qualifying sess
May 01, 2013
COMMERCE, Ga. – The 25th Anniversary Castrol GTX Ford Mustang John Force drove to the 2010 NHRA Funny Car Championship wi
April 30, 2013
ATLANTA, GA (April 30, 2013) --- Robert Hight had planned to start his race weekend by attending the Mello Yello Champions Banquet on Wednesday night in downtown Atlanta. This prestigious event is a celebration of
April 29, 2013
After surviving monsoon conditions that washed out two qualifying sessions a
April 28, 2013
HOUSTON, TX ---- At the conclusion of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals the Mello Yello Funny Car point standings tighte
April 27, 2013
HOUSTON, TX (April 27, 2013) – Sporadic and then intense rain showers washed out the second day of qualifying at the 26th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals. Unfortunately for rookie Top F
April 27, 2013
HOUSTON, TX (April 28, 2013) --- Today during a break in the action at the 26th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway Park Kevin Long of Spring, Texas, was recognized
April 26, 2013
HOUSTON, TX (April 26, 2013) – The three John Force Racing Ford Mustangs attacked the Royal Purple Raceway Park track today with a vengeance. Each Funny Car scored qualifying bonus points on Friday and all th
April 25, 2013
HOUSTON, TX (April 25, 2013) --- On the Thursday night before Robert Hight and his AAA Texas Funny Car team wil
April 22, 2013
Team Castrol’s bid to again win drag racing’s most unique and challenging event ran afoul of Charlotte’s spring weather. Rain forced NHRA officials to
April 21, 2013
CHARLOTTE, NC ---- The day after an explosion launched his Auto Club Mustang carbon fiber body onto a walkway adjacent to the z
April 20, 2013
CHARLOTTE (April 20, 2013) – John Force and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang team came out of the pits swinging today at the
April 19, 2013
CHARLOTTE (April 19, 2013) --- Afternoon rain showers and the possibility of tornados in the area forced NHRA officia
April 08, 2013
At Las Vegas, Brittany Force did something no driver had done in 42 years and her little sister, Courtney, did something that is becoming more and more common.
In the 10,000 horsepower Castrol E
April 07, 2013
LAS VEGAS, NV ---- Courtney Force raced to her third final in the last five races and retook the Mello Yello Funny Car points lead with a runner-up fin
April 06, 2013
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 6, 2013) – Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang proved that last night was not a fluke holding onto the No. 1 qualify
April 05, 2013
LAS VEGAS, NV (April 5, 2013) – It is too early to say Robert Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang has turned its season around but Friday night&
April 02, 2013
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – John Force will be the first to admit that he’s never had much luck in Las Vegas.
Still, it would be ludicrous to bet against the 134-time NHRA tour winner this
April 01, 2013
LAS VEGAS (April 2, 2013) --- If a driver was trying to turn their luck around then getting on the track at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway would seem like the natural venue to make a move. For Robert Hight
April 01, 2013
LAS VEGAS (April 1, 2013) - Courtney Force’s Traxxas Ford Mustang team, part of the four-car John Force Racing operation, has rolled out of Brownsburg, Indiana and is making the 26-hour trek to Las Vegas this week.
March 22, 2013
(YORBA LINDA, CA) March 22, 2013 --- On Sunday 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and 2009 NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight will be enjoying the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. Through their longstanding
March 18, 2013
The luck of the Irish was not with our Team Castrol/JFR drivers this St. Paddy’s day. As we made the third stop of the season at Gainesville Raceway, we were ready to come out swinging. After four qualifying sessio
March 17, 2013
GAINESVILLE, FL ---- Robert Hight may not have won the race but he won the battle to turn around his Auto Club Ford Mustang racing to the semi-finals today at the 44th annual Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals. Hight entered
March 16, 2013
GAINESVILLE, FL (March 16, 2013) – To use a PGA TOUR analogy John Force used today’s qualifying session as “moving day” as he moved up from 17th to 12th to 4th in the hyper-competitive Funny Car q
March 15, 2013
GAINESVILLE, FL (March 15, 2013) – The Auto Club Ford Mustang of Robert Hight made the most positive impact for John Force Racing at the 44th Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals today. After a lackluster
March 06, 2013
Yorba Linda, CA (March 6, 2013) -- Thinking of taking the family on a vacation? BP Lubricants Inc., and thei
March 06, 2013
YORBA LINDA, Cal
March 06, 2013
ORBA LINDA, CA (March 6, 2013) --- Robert Hight, driver of the Auto Club Ford Mustang Funny Car, will spend one of his rare off weekends at the 2013 Bakersfield March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway. Hight will be
February 25, 2013
John Force drove the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang to a track record speed of 316.82 miles per hour en route to a semifinal finish in the 29th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals
February 24, 2013
PHOENIX, AZ ---- John Force and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang got back into competitive racing shape today racing to the semi-finals at the 29th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals. Force won his first round match-up against Al
February 23, 2013
CHANDLER, Ariz. --- After two days of tough qualifying all three John Force Racing Funny Cars and the lone Top Fuel dragster will head into the final eliminations of the 29th NHRA Arizona Nationals with their respective
February 22, 2013
CHANDLER, Ariz. (February 22, 2013) – Coming off a victory at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals last weekend, Courtney Force continued her success today at the 29th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals at
February 20, 2013
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 20, 2013—In just a year of competition among the best race car drivers in world, Courtney Force has established herself as a smart, focused competitor on the track and a solid role model
February 18, 2013
Team Castrol/JFR kept their NHRA Winternationals win streak going yesterday as Courtney’s Ford Mustang Funny Car blazed the strip with a 4.02 second run over Ron Capps in the final round of eliminations. This is th
February 17, 2013
POMONA, CA (February 17, 2013) --- In an epic final pitting a wily veteran versus the one of the fastest rising stars on the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Courtney Force and her Traxxas Mustang defeated Ron Capps at the
February 17, 2013
POMONA, CA (February 17, 2013) --- Last year it was John Force grabbing the first spot in the inaugural Traxxas Shootout, the $100,000 specialty race, with a win at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals. Thi
February 17, 2013
POMONA, CA ---- After grabbing her third No. 1 qualifier of her career, Courtney Force wrapped up the weekend today with her second career win and first at the season-opening 53nd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Wi
February 15, 2013
POMONA – Rookie Brittany Force put her Thursday struggles in the past and drove her Castrol EDGE Top Fuel dragster to the provisional No. 12 spot on Friday at the 53rd annual O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals. Ye
February 14, 2013
POMONA - Courtney Force and her Traxxas Ford Mustang team were one of the top Funny Cars today in the first session of qualifying at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway.
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YORBA LINDA, CA (February 11, 2013) --- John Force Racing today announced that longtime Holiday Car Show sponsor System 51 will expand their relationship with the 17-time Funny Car championship team with a multi-year spo
February 06, 2013
The following is an interview with the 2013 drivers for John Force Racing: John Force, Robert Hight, Courtney Force and Brittany Force. The team will begin the 2013 season at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternati
January 29, 2013
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 29, 2013) --- Stingray Systems, innovator of drenching and eyewash safety solutions is expanding its reach into the motorsports and automotive industries through a partnership with John Force R
January 21, 2013
Rancho Cucamonga, CA (January 21, 2013) --- Veteran sports photographer Gary Nastase of Rancho Cucamonga, California will receive the prestigious Russ Catlin Award during the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour in Charlotte this we
January 10, 2013
Rookie Brittany Force Gets Historic Opportunity in NHRA Mello Yello Series
YORBA LINDA, Calif. – John Force Racing, Inc., NHRA drag racing’s most successful Funny Car team, announced Thur
December 20, 2012
(Jupiter, FL) December 20, 2012 --- After two days of testing outside of West Palm Beach, Florida, three Funny Cars and a lone Top Fuel dragster are ending 2012 with some performance momentum. On January 10th in Yorba Li
December 19, 2012
Jupiter, Fla. (December 19, 2012) For the third consecutive year, Palm Beach International Raceway will once again host professional drag racing’s biggest pre-season event. The PRO Winter Warm-up, on January 18-19,
December 03, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (December 2, 2012) --- The 15th annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show was a huge success even if the weather did not cooperate. Intermittent rain showers dampened some cars but not the spirits of the
November 30, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 30, 2012) --- On the eve of the 15th annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show, a quartet of the John Force Racing drivers will be appearing at the LA Auto Show on Saturday, December 1st. Led by
November 27, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 27, 2012) --- This Sunday at the John Force Racing headquarters and museum in Yorba Linda, California, 15-time NHRA Funny Car world champion John Force will welcome all of Southern California to
November 13, 2012
HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 13, 2012) --- Courtney Force, the 24-year old driver from Yorba Linda, Calif., entered her rookie season with high hopes but grounded expectations behind the wheel of her Traxxxas Ford Mustang. Th
November 13, 2012
HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 13, 2012) --- The rookie season for Courtney Force culminated last night at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood with her Traxxas Ford Mustang crew winning the coveted 2012 Full Thrott
November 12, 2012
POMONA, CA --- Top Rookie of the Year contender Courtney Force closed-out the 2012 season today with a strong finish in both the Auto Club NHRA Finals and in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series points standings. F
November 12, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 12, 2012) --- The 2012 “Win with Force” BrandSource season was a big success for fans across the country. While Courtney Force’s Traxxas Ford Mustang team came up a few thousan
November 11, 2012
POMONA, CA – It is a long shot but a shot none the less for the 2012 Full Throttle Funny Car championship for the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang tuned and driven by Mike Neff. Going into the final day of the 2012 season
November 09, 2012
POMONA, CA – Even though rookie sensation Courtney Force could not hold off the 4.025 second pass by Jack Beckman in the second round of qualifying at the 48th annual Auto Club NHRA Nationals, she managed to make a
November 08, 2012
POMONA, CA – With Full Throttle championship aspirations hanging in the balance for Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang every round of qualifying takes on new levels of importance. Neff, the driver and crew
November 07, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 6, 2012) --- Robert Hight, 2009 NHRA Funny Car champion and driver of the Auto Club Ford Mustang, will drop the puck at the ECHL hockey game between the Ontario Reign and the San Francisco Bulls
November 06, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 6, 2012) --- Robert Hight will enter the 48th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals with a number of goals. While Hight is out of contention for the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car championship he has
November 06, 2012
POMONA, Calif. – One of the most miserable off-seasons John Force ever endured came at the end of his first NHRA championship year. From it, the 2012 inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame learne
November 06, 2012
POMONA, Calif. – He’s done the math, he knows the odds, but Mike Neff doesn’t plan to go gently into the off-season.
“The ultimate motivator is being in contention at the end of t
November 06, 2012
The time of year that all NHRA fans, drivers and those associated with the series dislike the most has arrived; the end of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series season. With that comes the excitement of the 48th annu
November 02, 2012
POMONA, Calif. – Through Sunday, Nov. 4, select Pomona-area Wal-mart stores will double as “pit stops” for some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX &
November 02, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 2, 2012) --- John, Courtney, and Brittany Force will take part in an autograph session Saturday, November 3rd, when the city of La Verne, Calif., adjacent to Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, hosts
October 28, 2012
LAS VEGAS --- In order to get a Nitro Funny Car from the starting line to the finish line under power it is estimated that over a million things have to go right. To ruin a perfectly good run only one thing has to go wro
October 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS – Mike Neff has said all season long all he just wants is a chance at the end of the season to win the Full Throttle Funny Car championship. After two days of qualifying at the 12th annual Big O Tires NHR
October 26, 2012
LAS VEGAS – Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang continued to keep the pressure on his championship foes as he raced to the provisional No. 1 spot at the 12th annual Big O Tires NHRA Nationals today at The St
October 23, 2012
LAS VEGAS (October 22, 2012) --- The Big O Tires NHRA Nationals is the penultimate Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event for 2012. In 2009 Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang Funny Car team won this event and al
October 23, 2012
(LAS VEGAS) --- The NHRA 2012 Full Throttle Drag Racing series is approaching the completion of the season and is currently preparing for the second-to-last event; the 12th annual Big O Tires NHRA Nationals in Las
October 23, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Jack Beckman and Ron Capps lead the NHRA Funny Car contingent into this week’s 12th annual Big O Tires Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway because theirs are the two quickes
October 23, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The thought of John Force as comic book superhero is not as far-fetched as it might seem on the surface.
After all, the 63-year-old drag racing icon, who competes this week at The
October 19, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (October 19, 2012) --- Prior to the Big O Tires NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway NHRA Funny Car superstar Ashley Force Hood and her legendary father, John Force, will participate in
October 16, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Select Las Vegas Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week into “pit stops” for some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX &ldq
October 09, 2012
READING, PA --- On a record setting weekend Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang played it smart and took home the driver and crew chief’s 10th career win and fourth this season. Neff tuned and drove his Must
October 09, 2012
READING, PA (October 8, 2012) --- Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang were the picture of consistency today at the 28th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals. Even though he had to wait an extra day to seal up his fourt
October 09, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (Oct. 9, 2012) – Courtney Force was recognized today as one of the eight NHRA rookie drivers who are eligible for the 2012 Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future Award. For Fo
October 08, 2012
BENTONVILLE, Ark. – John Force wanted boys. What the 15-time drag racing champion got was girls. Fortunately, while his daughters inherited a sense of style from their mother, they still got a healthy dose of com
October 07, 2012
READING, PA (October 7, 2012) --- Persistent rain showers put a halt to eliminations at the 28th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals today. The NHRA announced that eliminations will resume with the final pair of Top Fuel dra
October 06, 2012
READING, PA – Going into final eliminations at the 28th Auto Plus NHRA Nationals John Force Racing is poised to cut into the Full Throttle points lead of Ron Capps and Jack Beckman, the current No. 1 and No 2 drive
October 05, 2012
READING, PA – Mike Neff, driver and crew chief of the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang, threw everything he had at the track at Maple Grove Raceway on the first day of the 28th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals. He was rewar
October 02, 2012
READING, Pa. – It wasn’t so much the loss of position that sent Mike Neff into test mode in advance of this week’s 28th annual NHRA Auto-Plus Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. It was instead the loss o
October 02, 2012
READING, Penn. (October 2, 2012) – This week Courtney Force will compete at the only race track on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series circuit that she hasn’t raced at, Maple Grove Raceway. She will com
October 02, 2012
READING, PA (October 2, 2012) --- Last season Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team were struggling coming into the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals. Prior to that race Hight said it was a “make or break”
October 02, 2012
READING, Pa. – John Force admits that, as a student, he really wasn’t very good at math – which may be why the 63-year-old drag racing icon can’t accept the fact that he won’t be able to wor
October 01, 2012
READING, Penn. (October 1, 2012) - As the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing season winds down John Force Racing driver Courtney Force takes advantage of the month of October and the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove R
September 30, 2012
ST. LOUIS --- Halfway through the 2012 NHRA Countdown to the Championship the four Ford Mustangs in the Funny Car stable at John Force Racing will face a tough battle to win the Full Throttle Funny Car championship. With
September 29, 2012
ST. LOUIS - Top notch weather conditions today made for some interesting and impressive qualifying sessions to kick off the Inaugural AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. Three of the four Jo
September 29, 2012
MADISON, Ill. (September 29, 2012) – John Force held tight to the No. 2 spot today as qualifying came to an end in preparation for race day at the inaugural AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals at St. Louis.
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September 26, 2012
MADISON, Ill. – Few racers were happier to see Gateway Motorsports Park back on the NHRA schedule this season than Mike Neff who, in the first two races of the 2012 Countdown to the Championship, has emerged as the
September 26, 2012
ST LOUIS, MO (September 24, 2012) --- A tough start to the 2012 Countdown to the Championship has not dampen the drive and focus in the AAA Insurance Ford Mustang pits. Driver Robert Hight and crew chief Jimmy Prock spen
September 26, 2012
ST. LOUIS (September 25, 2012) – Following a one-year hiatus from the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series tour, Gateway Motorsports Park has returned, bringing with it the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals.
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September 26, 2012
MADISON, Ill. – John Force believes in magic and because of that remarkable things sometimes occur.
The 63-year-old drag racing icon took time out last week from what has been a down season, at leas
September 25, 2012
OCALA, FL (September 25, 2012) --- The International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, based at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing (Ocala, Florida) has announced the inductees for the 23rd class to the Hall of Fame for the y
September 23, 2012
DALLAS, TX (September 23, 2012) --- Fans of John Force Racing won this weekend in an unconventional “Double Up” picking up a No. 1 qualifier prize thanks to Courtney Force’s 4.081 second effort behind t
September 23, 2012
ENNIS, TX --- It was a steamy day at the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals with temperatures soaring to over 90 degrees. The tough conditions contributed to the early exits by all four John Force Racing Ford Mustangs with Mi
September 22, 2012
ENNIS, TX --- Courtney Force pulled to the starting line today at the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals with the intention of qualifying well. She did not, however, expect to seize her second provisional no. 1 qualifier of h
September 22, 2012
ENNIS, TX (September 22, 2012) --- John Force continued to prove why he is not just the winningest driver in NHRA history but also one of the most decorated in specialty races. Today in front of a capacity crowd at the T
September 22, 2012
ENNIS, TX --- Courtney Force held on tightly to her No. 1 qualifier spot today as the 27th annual AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals qualifying came to a close. Force’s 4.081 second pass at over 308 mph topped the chart
September 21, 2012
DALLAS, Texas – After a two-week wait and a change of venue, John Force Racing Ford Mustangs will roll to the starting line Saturday with an opportunity to (1) earn the biggest payday on the NHRA pro tour outside o
September 19, 2012
DALLAS, Texas – On the fifth anniversary of the crash that almost ended his career, John Force brings his Castrol GTX HIGH MILEAGE Ford Mustang back to the Texas Motorplex in hopes of breathing new life into his bi
September 19, 2012
DALLAS, Texas – There are signs that the often difficult relationship between the man who drives the Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang and the man who tunes it finally has begun to mellow, a circumstance that could cha
September 19, 2012
DALLAS (September 19, 2012) --- Racers and crew chiefs will tell you that it takes a million things to go right and only one thing to go wrong to derail the run of an 8,000 hp Nitro Funny Car. On Sunday afternoon in the
September 18, 2012
ENNIS, Texas (September 18, 2012) – This weekend’s big event at the Texas Motorplex is one of the biggest weekends of the year for rookie Courtney Force and sponsor Traxxas, as it is home to the new NHRA supp
September 16, 2012
CONCORD, NC --- For the second year in a row Mike Neff reached the final round at the kick-off race for the Countdown to the Championship, on the heels of winning the Mac Tools US Nationals. Tonight unfortunately he suff
September 15, 2012
CONCORD, NC --- The first round of the Countdown to the Championship will start tomorrow at zMax Dragway and John Force Racing will have one of the premier match-ups to start the day. Courtney Force and the Traxxas Ford
September 14, 2012
CONCORD, NC --- Mike Neff and his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang continued to maintain their winning momentum coming out of the 58th annual Mac Tools US Nationals, which he won for the second consecutive year, and cruising to
September 12, 2012
DALLAS, Texas – Select Dallas-area Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week to accommodate some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX “25th Anniversary&
September 12, 2012
CONCORD, N.C. (September 11, 2012) – Since the moment Courtney Force stepped out onto the stage at John Force Racing headquarters and announced her debut into NHRA’s professional Funny Car category with Traxx
September 12, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Indianapolis resident Mike Neff attributed his success in winning last week’s 58th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals to the fact that he could drive his own car to and from the track, sleep ev
September 12, 2012
CHARLOTTE, NC (September 11, 2012) --- Three years ago Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team jump started their first championship run with a win at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. In the past th
September 12, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (September 12, 2012) --- In anticipation of the most competitive NHRA Countdown to the Championship in recent memory John Force Entertainment has produced individual videos promoting each Funny Car driver
September 11, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Simply by qualifying for the NHRA’s Countdown to 1 playoffs, John Force extended the drag racing record for consecutive Top 10 seasons in any professional category to 28. The last time the
September 11, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (September 10, 2012) --- It took two weeks but the rain delayed Mac Tools US Nationals concluded on Sunday and two lucky John Force Racing fans also won big as Courtney Force and the Traxxas Ford Mustang s
September 09, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- For the fifth straight year and eighth time in eleven years John Force Racing reigned supreme in Funny Cars at the NHRA Mac Tools US Nationals. Mike Neff tuned and drove his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang
September 08, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Rookie driver Courtney Force held onto the No. 1 qualifying spot today, the first of her career, after sessions we re-opened with two final qualifying hits. Last weekend Force posted a career-best 4.
September 07, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Earlier this week the NHRA made the decision to postpone the culmination of the biggest event of the year due to deteriorating track conditions and an unfavorable weather forecast. The 58th annual Ma
September 05, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C.. – Select Charlotte-area Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week into pit stops for some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX “25th An
September 03, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- For only the second time in its glorious history the Mac Tools US Nationals has been postponed due to persistent rain and deteriorating track conditions. NHRA officials announced this morning that th
September 02, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Mother Nature has a way of making things complicated. Today the final day of qualifying for the 58th annual Mac Tools US Nationals was washed out and rookie driver Courtney Force secured the first No
September 01, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- On an improbable day when Mother Nature looked to stop the racing action at Lucas Oil Raceway before it even got underway it was Auto Club Road to the Future Award front-runner Courtney Force that ra
August 31, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Rookie sensation Courtney Force checked off another goal on her highly successful first season, clinching a spot in the 2012 Countdown to the Championship, with her provisional No. 3 qualifying perfo
August 29, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 29, 2012) --- While this is the inaugural year for the Traxxas Shootout it is not the first time John Force Racing will be looking for bonus money success at the Mac Tools US Nationals. Eight times
August 28, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 29, 2012) --- Former John Force Racing driver Gary Densham pulled off the double win at the Mac Tools US Nationals in 2004 winning the Big Bud Shootout and then the race for the Auto Club team. Thi
August 28, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – On the track on which he celebrated the biggest victory of his career, Mike Neff this week tries to make history and, at the same time, extend John Force Racing’s dominance of the most pr
August 28, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS (August 28, 2012) – Rookie sensation Courtney Force and primary sponsor Traxxas are new to the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series for 2012 and now for the 17th event of 23 total, are finding themsel
August 28, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – John Force will make his 33rd appearance this week in drag racing’s most prestigious single event. The question most often posed to the 15-time series champion is, “who’s gon
August 24, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 24, 2012) --- As thousands of NHRA Full Throttle Racing Series fans begin to arrive in Indianapolis today for the 58th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals they will be greeted by two John Force Racing
August 23, 2012
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (August 23, 2012) - Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series will throw out the first pitch at the Indianapolis Indians game against the C
August 19, 2012
BRAINERD, MN --- John Force lost the race then got back in the race in the first round before finally coming up one round short of winning his 12th Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals in a bizarre day at Brainerd International Race
August 18, 2012
BRAINERD, MN --- A two hour rain delay two-thirds of the way through the final Funny Car qualifying session gave the fans that hung around a tremendous performance show and shook up a tight Funny Car field on Saturday at
August 17, 2012
BRAINERD, MN --- John Force, the winningest driver in the history of Brainerd International Raceway, started the 31st annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals posting the second quickest run on the opening day of qualifying. Forc
August 14, 2012
BRAINERD, MN (August 14, 2012) --- There are some tracks where drivers love to pull their race cars to the starting line because they have seen more win lights than anything else. Brainerd International Raceway is not on
August 14, 2012
BRAINERD, Minn. – Last year, Mike Neff inexplicably “lost the handle” on the tune-up that had carried his Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang to the regular season championship in the NHRA’s Full Thrott
August 14, 2012
BRAINERD, Minn. (August 14, 2012) – One event on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series tour stands between Rookie Funny Car driver Courtney Force and her first ever Funny Car attempt at “The Big Go”
August 14, 2012
BRAINERD, Minn. – With his record streak of 27 consecutive Top 10 finishes in jeopardy, John Force could not find himself in a more comfortable environment this week when the NHRA Full Throttle Series moves to Brai
August 13, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (August 13, 2012) --- Courtney Force has had a tremendous start to her rookie season including three final round appearances and her first win in Seattle. She is asking her fans to give her a little help
August 12, 2012
(Norwalk, OH) -- After Ohio was baked with record high temperatures in July, the cooldown arrived in time for the 35th Annual Auto Plus Night Under Fire at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, with a capacity crowd
August 09, 2012
An Interview With:
COURTNEY FORCE & ERICA ENDERS
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us. We will get started with our phone call today. Joining us for the call we w
August 09, 2012
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (August 8, 2012) – Almost lost in the celebration of Funny Car rookie Courtney Force’s victory last week in the O’Reilly Northwest Nationals at Seattle, Wash., were the milestones achie
August 05, 2012
SEATTLE, WA --- Courtney Force won in just her third final round appearance of her rookie year today at the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest NHRA Nationals. The rookie driver defeated three Funny Car world
August 05, 2012
SEATTLE, WA (August 5, 2012) --- When Courtney Force and her Traxxas Mustang defeated Matt Hagan in the finals of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest NHRA Nationals history was made and a lucky fan was also a big win
August 04, 2012
SEATTLE, WA --- The first day of the 25th O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest NHRA Nationals began with Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang leading the way for John Force Racing at Pacific Raceway. Neff posted the
August 04, 2012
SEATTLE, WA --- Going into race day at Pacific Raceway John Force Racing will have some tough match-ups at the 25th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest NHRA Nationals. The team struggled in the heat today but show
July 31, 2012
SEATTLE, WA (July 31, 2012) --- In 2005 Robert Hight rolled into Pacific Raceway in the middle of his rookie season and raced to the final round in his first appearance at the NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nat
July 31, 2012
SEATTLE, Wash. – In 10 trips to Pacific Raceways as either a Funny Car crew chief, driver or both, Mike Neff has enjoyed uncharacteristically little success. He’s won just seven total rounds, only two in thr
July 31, 2012
KENT, Wash. (July 31, 2012) – One more stop on the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing series tour stands between Courtney Force and the completion of the Western Swing, and it just so happens to be one of her favorites
July 31, 2012
SEATTLE, Wash. – John Force’s results at Pacific Raceways, site of this week’s 25th annual O’Reilly Northwest Nationals, have run the gamut – from spectacular to catastrophic and everything
July 29, 2012
SONOMA, CA --- Robert Hight raced to the quarter-finals before losing a close race to Cruz Pedregon at the 25th annual Sonoma NHRA Nationals today. Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang will leave Sonoma with a slightly l
July 28, 2012
SONOMA, CA --- On a record setting day at Sonoma Raceway Rookie of the Year front-runner Courtney Force and the Traxxas Ford Mustang were tops of the field for JFR racing to the provisional No. 5 spot with a career best
July 28, 2012
SONOMA, CA --- None of the John Force Racing Ford Mustangs made major moves in the qualifying order on Saturday at the 25th annual Sonoma NHRA Nationals. Courtney Force and Mike Neff led the way for Team Force gathering
July 24, 2012
SEATTLE, Wash. – Select Seattle-area Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week into pit stops for some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX “25th
July 24, 2012
SONOMA, Calif. (July 24, 2012) - In just one race, Rookie of the Year frontrunner Courtney Force managed to drive her Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car to her second round final of her rookie Funny Car career at the 33rd an
July 24, 2012
SONOMA, Calif. – John Force can never forget Eric Medlen, the talented young Funny Car driver who lost his life in a testing accident more than five years ago. Still, there are times when the 15-time NHRA champion
July 24, 2012
SONOMA, CA (July 24, 2012) ---With four races to go before the cut-off for the 2012 Countdown Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team have clinched a spot in the race for the championship but he wants to hold on
July 24, 2012
SONOMA, Calif. – Mike Neff owes his success to three things: his ability to adapt to conditions, his aggressiveness when the rewards are great and his willingness to adopt a more conservative approach when it is ne
July 22, 2012
DENVER, CO --- For the second time in three races rookie sensation Courtney Force was running for the money behind the wheel of her Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car. Today at the 33rd running of the MOPAR Mile-High NHRA Na
July 21, 2012
DENVER, CO --- Robert Hight all but locked up his spot in the 2012 NHRA Countdown tonight at Bandimere Speedway racing to the provisional No. 2 spot. All Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team need to do is qualify fo
July 21, 2012
DENVER, CO --- John Force Racing has four Funny Cars all in the top half of the field going into Sunday’s eliminations at the 33rd annual MOPAR Mile-High NHRA Nationals. Led by points leader Robert Hight the JFR co
July 18, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Photo Credit: Ron Lewis
DENVER, Colo. – If John Force had a dollar for every time someone declared his racing career to be in decline, the 15-time Auto Racing All-A
July 18, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DENVER, Colo. – Although he might publicly agree that Bandimere Speedway’s
approach to managing track temperatures is innovative, Mike Neff is not a big fan of the
July 17, 2012
DENVER (July 17 2012) - As rookie driver Courtney Force approaches the 13th stop on the NHRA Full Throttle drag racing series tour, it’s hard not to notice her accomplishments so far this season. Force has remained
July 17, 2012
DENVER (July 17, 2012) --- When your surname is Hight you get a lot of puns and jokes thrown your way heading to the MOPAR Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway. For two time Mile-High Nationals winner R
July 16, 2012
SONOMA, Calif. – Select Sonoma-area Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week into pit stops for some of the world’s most powerful races cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX “25th Anniver
July 12, 2012
UKIAH, CA (July 12, 2012) --- John Force Racing and BrandSource have been synonymous with winning since the inception of the Win with Force Promotion in 2006. Throughout each NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season
July 08, 2012
NORWALK, OH --- Mike Neff used all his mechanical and driving skills this weekend at the 6th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals en route to his back to back victory in Norwalk. Neff tuned and drove his Castrol
July 08, 2012
NORWALK, Ohio (July 8, 2012) --- When Mike Neff and his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang won the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals today, they not only picked up their second win of the season, the seventh win for John Forc
July 07, 2012
NORWALK, OH --- After two grueling days under the hot Ohio sun the four John Force Racing Ford Mustang Funny Car drivers are ready for a break in the heat. With track temperatures creeping up close to 140 plus degrees on
July 06, 2012
NORWALK, OH (July 6, 2012) --- Eleven races into the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season top rookie of the year contenders Courtney Force and Alexis DeJoria are coming off their two most successful we
July 06, 2012
NORWALK, OH --- Defending Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals champion Mike Neff is not going to give up his title without a fight. On Friday night the driver and crew chief of the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car r
July 05, 2012
NORWALK, Ohio – Although he still is no fan of a Countdown to 1 playoff format that, in essence, penalizes the teams that are most successful in the first 17 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Mike
July 05, 2012
NORWALK, OH (July 3, 2012) --- Heading into the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio this weekend Funny Car points leader Robert Hight is keeping his focus on maintaining his Full Throttle points lead. High
July 05, 2012
NORWALK, Ohio – At Summit Motorsports Park, site of this week’s sixth annual Summit Racing Equipment Nationals, John Force has demonstrated that fame does not necessarily follow familiarity.
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July 05, 2012
NORWALK, Ohio (July 3, 2012) – Rookie Courtney Force never dreamed that she would be doing so well, so soon in her professional Funny Car career. Coming down off a ‘first final round high” from this pas
July 01, 2012
JOLIET, IL --- Rookie of the Year candidate Courtney Force and her Traxxas Ford Mustang pushed veteran Jeff Arend and his DHL Toyota to the limit in the final round of the O’Reilly Route 66 NHRA Nationals but in th
July 01, 2012
JOLIET, IL --- John Force may not be back to his old dominating self but the two day performance at Rt. 66 Raceway served notice to the Funny Car category he is moving in that direction. For the 140th time in his career
June 30, 2012
JOLIET, Ill. (June 30, 2012) --- When John Force and his Castrol GTX HIGH MILEAGE Ford Mustang posted the quickest Funny Car elapsed time in qualifying, 4.050 seconds which held through both of Saturday’s sessions,
June 30, 2012
JOLIET, IL --- The two Full Throttle Funny Car champions that race under the John Force Racing banner, 15-time champ John Force and 2009 Funny Car champ Robert Hight brought their respective “A” games to the
June 26, 2012
Castrol will be participating in some two-wheel competition during this weekend’s NHRA Route 66 Nationals in Joliet, Illinois as Junior Pippin Trucking/Racing will campaign a Triumph Castrol Pro Stock Motorcycle. A
June 26, 2012
CHICAGO, IL. – With apologies to country music star Tim McGraw, drag racing icon John Force “ain’t as good as he’s gonna get, but he’s better than he used to be.”
After
June 26, 2012
CHICAGO, IL. (June 26, 2012) --- Two weeks ago in Bristol, Tennessee Robert Hight suffered his second first round defeat of the season losing to Johnny Gray in the opening session of the Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Na
June 26, 2012
CHICAGO, IL. – Every time he straps himself into the Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang, a race car whose supercharged and fuel-injected BOSS 500 Ford engine cranks out an almost unfathomable 8,000 horsepower, Mike Neff
June 22, 2012
CHICAGO, IL (June 22, 2012) - Right before the 11th race of the NHRA Full Throttle drag racing season, the John Force Racing operation finds themselves in recovery mode. Having all four drivers ousted during the first ro
June 17, 2012
BRISTOL, TN --- Thunder Valley was unkind to John Force Racing at the 12th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Tri-Cities Ford Dealers as all four Mustang Funny Cars were ousted in the first round. Thi
June 16, 2012
BRISTOL, TN --- The first day of the 12th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley National presented by the Tri-Cities Ford Dealers was a banner day for the Blue Ovals on the track. When qualifying concluded Bob Tasca III was in
June 16, 2012
BRISTOL, TN --- Warmer track conditions at Bristol Dragway had drivers and crew chiefs scrambling for tune-ups throughout the day at the 12th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by the Tri-Cities Ford Dea
June 12, 2012
BRISTOL, Tenn. – On fire, spinning backwards on the quarter mile track at Memphis Motorsports Park, his Castrol GTX Funny Car just seconds away from bone-crunching impact with the guardrail, a distressed John Force
June 12, 2012
BRISTOL, Tenn. (June 11, 2012) – With nine races down and eight to go before the regular season ends and the 2012 NHRA Countdown to the Championship launches, the entire team of John Force Racing drivers are in the
June 12, 2012
BRISTOL, TN (June 12, 2012) --- There are only a handful of current drivers who can say they won 250 rounds of Funny Car racing. They are multiple-time world champions, veterans and Hall of Fame contenders. With two roun
June 12, 2012
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Whenever Mike Neff comes back to Bristol Dragway, as he does for this week’s 12th annual Ford Thunder Valley Nationals presented by the Tri-Cities Ford Dealers Association, he is reminded why
June 06, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (June 6, 2012) --- Mike Neff knew last weekend was an important one for his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car team. It wasn’t the fact that he was the defending Toyota NHRA SuperNationals event cham
June 04, 2012
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Select TriCities-area Wal-mart stores will be transformed this week (June 7-10) into pit stops for some of the world’s most powerful race cars including the 8,000 horsepower Castrol GTX &ldqu
June 03, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ --- At the halfway point of the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series holding onto Top Ten points positions is almost as important as wins. After nine races John Force Racing has six wins and three d
June 02, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ --- On Saturday at the 43rd running of the Toyota NHRA SuperNationals Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang continued to show that they are one of the cars to beat posting the third quickest time of
June 01, 2012
BRISTOL, NJ (June 1, 2012) --- On Thursday in advance of the 43rd Toyota NHRA SuperNationals rookie of the year front-runner Courtney Force spent the afternoon at ESPN’s world-wide headquarters in Bristol, Connecti
June 01, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ --- It may be just the first day of June but the summer time fireworks got an early start at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park on Friday night of the 43rd annual Toyota NHRA SuperNationals. Robert Hight an
May 29, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. (May 29, 2012) - It’s been an interesting rookie season for Courtney Force and her Traxxas Ford Mustang in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series so far. From going up against her dad, 15-time
May 29, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ (May 29, 2012) --- There are races that only need to be mentioned by their nicknames for race fans and historians to understand how important they are. Indy. The Gators. The World Finals. E-town. Th
May 29, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Mike Neff unquestionably is a champion. He has the hardware to prove it. However, the cause the 45-year-old former surfer is championing this week means more to him than a repeat victory in Su
May 29, 2012
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – He wouldn’t say it’s been a long time since he won a race at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, site of this week’s 43rd annual Toyota SuperNationals, but the last time John For
May 20, 2012
TOPEKA, KS --- Robert Hight’s bid for a three-peat at the NHRA Dollar General Summer Nationals fell short in the semi-finals when his Auto Club Ford Mustang smoked the tires versus Ron Capps at Heartland Park Topek
May 19, 2012
TOPEKA, KS --- Mike Neff is well on his way to redeeming himself from his tough weekend in Atlanta where he missed the qualifying field. Tonight at Heartland Park Topeka under ideal conditions he tuned and drove his Cast
May 19, 2012
TOPEKA, KS --- When you have four Funny Cars competing for sixteen qualifying spots the odds are against you sometimes. The goal is to get all four Funny Cars qualified and then get as many round wins as possible.
May 16, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (May 16, 2012) --- Legendary Funny Car driver John Force and teammate Robert Hight will honor the legacy of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll during the 12th annual NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Br
May 15, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. – Mike Neff’s qualifying failure at the most recent event in the NHRA Full Throttle drag racing series prompted the versatile 45-year-old to pay a grudging compliment to the Countdown to 1
May 15, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. – The word itself is a bit oxymoron-ish, but there’s little doubt that John Force is one of the nation’s most prolific sexagenarians.
A world champion at 61 and an NHRA natio
May 14, 2012
TOPEKA, KS (May 14, 2012) --- Last year in Topeka Robert Hight was attempting to set a couple of personal records and one giant team record when his Auto Club Ford Mustang rolled up to the starting line beside teammate M
May 09, 2012
TOPEKA, Kan. (May 9, 2012) – Coming out of a successful weekend for John Force Racing as a whole, Courtney Force looks to boost her top ten position in the points and go some rounds at Heartland Park Topeka for the
May 06, 2012
TEAM JFR RACE REPORT
32nd annual Summit Southern Nationals
Atlanta Dragway
Atlanta, Ga.
May 4-6, 2012
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Final round results from Sunday’s 32nd annual
May 05, 2012
At 32nd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals in Atlanta, Ga.
COMMERCE, Ga. (May 5, 2012) --- When Robert Hight and his AAA Auto Club of Southern California Ford Mustang posted the quickes
May 05, 2012
TEAM JFR QUALIFYING REPORT
2012 NHRA Final Qualifying Summary
7th of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Series
32nd annual NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals
Atlanta Dragw
May 04, 2012
TEAM JFR QUALIFYING REPORT
2012 NHRA Friday Qualifying Summary
7th of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Series
32nd annual NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Southern Nationals
Atlant
May 03, 2012
TALLADEGA, AL (May 3, 2012) --- The International Motorsports Hall of Fame tonight inducted two NHRA greats, Kenny Bernstein and John Force, along with NASCAR’s Richard Childress into the Hall of Fame. At a sold-ou
May 02, 2012
ATLANTA, Ga. – John Force moves one step closer to Social Security this week, but the former truck driver, wannabe football quarterback and NHRA drag racing champion isn’t likely to apply for benefits any tim
May 02, 2012
ATLANTA, Ga. – One of the quotes attributed to Atlanta Pro Stock legend Warren Johnson is: “there are no bad wins and there are no good losses.”
While he wouldn’t disagree entirel
May 02, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, AL (May 2, 2012) --- On the eve of their induction into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame 15-time Funny Car champion John Force and six-time Top Fuel and Funny Car champion Kenny Bernstein enjoyed an
May 01, 2012
ATLANTA (May 1, 2012) --- When Robert Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang struck the tires in the semi-finals at the O’Reilly Spring Nationals in Houston his goal of winning five consecutive Funny Car NHRA n
May 01, 2012
COMMERCE, Ga. (April 30, 2012) – Coming out of the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals in Houston, Texas this past week, Courtney Force accomplished one major goal by beating fellow “Rookie of the
April 30, 2012
HOUSTON --- On a day when Robert Hight’s bid for a historic fifth win in a row ended in the semi-finals, Mike Neff extended the John Force Racing team win streak to six races with his defeat of Ron Capps in the fin
April 30, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (April 30, 2012) --- John Force has raced dozens of Funny Cars over the course his Hall of Fame career and this week the 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion will display a one of a kind Castrol GTX HIGH MILEA
April 29, 2012
John Force Racing stays undefeated for 2012
BAYTOWN, Texas (April 29, 2012) --- Mike Neff and his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang won the O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals today and ultimately checked Ho
April 28, 2012
TEAM JFR QUALIFYING REPORT
2012 NHRA Final Qualifying Summary
6th of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Series
25th annual NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals
Royal Purple
April 27, 2012
TEAM JFR QUALIFYING REPORT
2012 NHRA Friday Qualifying Summary
6th of 23 races in the NHRA Full Throttle Series
25th annual NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts SpringNationals
Royal Purple
April 25, 2012
HOUSTON, Texas – Endurance typically is not a term applied to drag races that take as few as four seconds to complete.
However, it was lack of endurance, pure and simple, that cost Mike Neff and the
April 24, 2012
HOUSTON, Texas – On the 10th anniversary of his historic 100th NHRA tour victory, John Force is on a mission to reclaim the suddenly-elusive consistency that once made him virtually unbeatable.
The 6
April 24, 2012
IndyCar’s Will Power narrowly edged NHRA’s Robert Hight in the vote for the first quarter DRIVER OF THE YEAR 2012.
An elite panel of 21 broadcasters and journalists had a difficult time this
April 23, 2012
HOUSTON (April 23, 2012) --- Robert Hight is not looking at streak records or career stats as he gets geared up for the 25th annual NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway Park this weeken
April 20, 2012
BAYTOWN, Texas (April 20, 2012) – Courtney Force, driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car is steadily moving forward and into the sixth race of her professional NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series career thi
April 20, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (April 20, 2012) --- As the NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car points leader and winner of the last four NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series events Robert Hight has been in high demand from the media and spon
April 20, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (April 20, 2012) --- John Force Racing will be joining the Blue Oval family at Knott’s Berry Farm, America’s #1 Theme Park, as part of the 27th annual Fabulous Ford
April 20, 2012
2011 FLW Angler of the Year to Appear April 21st at Kennesaw Big Shanty Festival
Kennesaw, GA (March 29, 2012) – Castrol Pro Angler David Dudley, the career leader in FLW tour earnings and the 2011 F
April 19, 2012
Want to get up close to an 8000-horsepower nitro burning Ford Mustang Funny Car? Well now you can while doing some shopping as the John Force Traveling Road Show rolls into selected Walmart stores in the Houston area thi
April 19, 2012
BROWNSBURG, IN (April 19, 2012) --- Building on the momentum of last season’s debut national tour the John Force Racing Road Show will once again be crisscrossing the country promoting the winningest team in motors
April 15, 2012
Last year’s grand prize winner celebrates one-year anniversary of winning a 2012 Ford Focus in conjunction with JFR’s Four-Wide success
CONCORD, NC (April 15, 2012) --- Robert Hight and his AAA
April 15, 2012
CHARLOTTE, NC --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club team continued their streak of Funny Car dominance winning for the fourth time in a row this season with their first win at the Four-Wide NHRA Nationals today. This is jus
April 11, 2012
Through the eyes of motorsports veteran David Hakim, Castrol this year will provide NHRA race fans with a unique opportunity to see exclusive behind-the-scenes action right from their laptops. By capturing unique images
April 10, 2012
CHARLOTTE, NC (April 10, 2012) – Full Throttle NHRA Funny Car points leader Robert Hight would love to race every weekend. In fact between NHRA races he frequently takes in NASCAR races like the recent Auto Club 40
April 10, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mike Neff has been driving competitively only since 2007, but the former surfer, motocross rider and off-road truck mechanic already has done something in professional drag racing that no one else
April 10, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – John Force is more than just the 15-time NHRA Funny Car Champion; the winner of more races (134) and more rounds (1,100) than anyone else in the history of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Serie
April 10, 2012
CONCORD, N.C. (April 10, 2012) – Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future rookie of the year nominee, Courtney Force will take her first shot at racing “four-wide” this week following t
April 02, 2012
LAS VEGAS, NV --- For the third time in 2012 and the 26th time in his career Robert Hight has picked up another NHRA national event win, taking the “Wally” at the 13th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals.
April 01, 2012
LAS VEGAS (April 1, 2012) --- When Robert Hight and his AAA Auto Club of Southern California Ford Mustang won the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals today, they not only increased their success to three event wins in a row,
March 31, 2012
LAS VEGAS, NV --- The hot and windy conditions at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway helped Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang hold onto the No. 1 qualifying position, his second of 2012, at the 13th annual S
March 30, 2012
LAS VEGAS, NV --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team continued their hot streak at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway racing to the provisional No. 1 spot at the 13th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationa
March 28, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (March 28, 2012) --- When Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang defeated Johnny Gray in the finals of the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals he won his second consecutive race of the season and a 55&r
March 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – With apologies to the race winner in Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, “slow and steady” is a strategy that, when applied to professional drag racing, assures little mo
March 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS (March 27, 2012) – Following an unexpected weekend in Gainesville, Fla. for Courtney Force and her recently assembled Traxxas Ford Mustang team, all are looking to regroup and make a strong comeback in La
March 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS, Nevada. – In Vegas, you can’t bet on John Force. Well, actually, you CAN bet on the 15-time NHRA drag racing champion, but you probably shouldn’t.
The first eight times that
March 27, 2012
LAS VEGAS (March 27, 2012) --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team are hoping to stay on a hot streak at the 13th annual Summitracing.com NHRA Nationals this weekend at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
March 26, 2012
LAS VEGAS (March 26, 2012)—With back-to-back event wins in Phoenix and Gainesville this season, Funny Car driver Robert Hight is hoping to keep his hot streak going during this weekend’s SummitRacing.com NHRA
March 23, 2012
Will sign autographs at Freightliner booth Friday, March 23
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (March 22, 2012) – For decades, the Mid-America Trucking Show has been the ideal tradeshow to gain vision, insight
March 21, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (March 21, 2012) --- Three of the most popular NHRA Funny Car drivers, John Force, Courtney Force and Robert Hight will be in attendance at the Auto Club 400 on Sunday, March 25th talking with fans and s
March 12, 2012
GAINESVILLE, FL --- Robert Hight won for the second time in 2012 defeating Johnny Gray in the final round of the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals presented by napafilters.com. For Hight and the Auto Club Ford
March 11, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The potential of a third consecutive all-John Force Racing Funny Car final still was in play late Sunday when NHRA officials were forced to postpone until Monday the last two rounds of racing in
March 10, 2012
GAINESVILLE, FL --- Robert Hight and Mike Neff were consistently at the top of the Funny Car class throughout the two days of qualifying at the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals. They will go into Sunday&rsquo
March 09, 2012
GAINESVILLE, FL --- Mike Neff and Robert Hight put on a performance show for the big crowd at Auto-Plus Raceway at Gainesville today on the first day of qualifying at the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals. Nef
March 05, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (March 5, 2012) – In an effort to continue living out her dream of being a successful race car driver, Courtney Force is beginning to find herself in the midst of a media whirlwind. The Automobile
March 05, 2012
GAINESVILLE, FL (March 5, 2012) --- As the NHRA starts its season on the East Coast at the 43rd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team want to keep their momentum rolling
March 01, 2012
MODERATOR: I'd like to welcome the media to today’s teleconference call for the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. This call will preview the Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals presented by NAPAFilters.com March
February 27, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – In 1979, after competing in just two events in his budding NHRA Funny Car career, both of them in his native California, John “Brute” Force loaded his Wendy’s Hamburgers Corvet
February 27, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Entering this week’s 43rd annual Tire Kingdom Gatornationals at Auto Plus Raceway, Mike Neff likely is the most frustrated recent points leader in any motor racing discipline.
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February 23, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (February 22, 2012) --- When Robert Hight qualified his AAA Auto Club Ford Mustang Funny Car No. 1 at the season opening NHRA O'Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals, he started a domino effect of prize winni
February 20, 2012
PHOENIX --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang raced into the record books extending a number of personal best streaks today winning the 28th annual Arizona NHRA Nationals in a great all John Force Racing final
February 19, 2012
PHOENIX --- Castrol GTX backed Mike Neff made the most of his final qualifying session racing to the No.2 qualifying position with a blistering 4.096 second run, at the Arizona NHRA Nationals. His run was reminiscent of
February 18, 2012
PHOENIX --- In the desert outside of Phoenix John Force Racing continued to turn up the heat on the rest of the Funny Car field. In each session today of the Arizona NHRA Nationals, a JFR Ford Mustang picked up at least
February 17, 2012
PHOENIX – Funny Car points leader John Force admits that the biggest challenge he faces this year isn’t power and performance, it is maintaining his focus, an attention deficit situation that has very little
February 17, 2012
PHOENIX, Ariz. – When he took on the dual role of crew chief and driver on the Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang, Mike Neff admitted that one of his biggest concerns was whether he could move seamlessly from one role t
February 15, 2012
CHANDLER, Ariz. (February 14, 2012) – Courtney Force gave the Funny Car field at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona a run for their money last weekend when she began her pro career in her Traxxas Ford Mustang. Courtney qu
February 14, 2012
PHOENIX, AZ (February 14, 2012) --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team have been picked by a number of media outlets and experts as one of the odds on favorites to win the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car
February 12, 2012
POMONA --- John Force bounced back from a dismal end to the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle season with his sixth win at the O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals today. It was the 134th win of the 15-time champion’s career
February 11, 2012
POMONA, CA --- Robert Hight went from zero to hero in eight hour at the 52nd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Winternationals. Going into the third qualifying session Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang Funny Car w
February 10, 2012
POMONA, CA --- The 2012 NHRA season got off to a “Force-ful” start as Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future rookie of the year candidate, Courtney Force made her official pro debut at the
February 10, 2012
POMONA, CA --- Heading into the weekend at the 52nd annual O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals John Force Racing is half in and half out but totally focused. Led by John Force and Courtney Force in the provisional No. 6
February 08, 2012
POMONA, Calif. – Mike Neff learned last year that winning the NHRA Full Throttle championship is not so much about what you do as when you do it.
The crew chief and driver of the Castrol GTX® Fo
February 08, 2012
POMONA, Calif. – John Force hasn’t won a single round of racing – not one stinking round – since last August 7 when he pushed his Castrol GTX HIGH MILEAGE Ford Mustang past the Chevrolet of Jeff D
February 07, 2012
YORBA LINDA, CA (February 6, 2012) --- As soon as the 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing season came to a close Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang team raced to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to get a jump st
February 06, 2012
POMONA, Calif. (February 6, 2012) – Many childhood dreams begin with a small glimpse into the working world their parents live in, but when your father is 15-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force and races to spe
January 31, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (January 31, 2012) – John Medlen, who won an NHRA Funny Car championship as crew chief to Tony Pedregon, helped design and develop the BOSS 500 Ford nitro motor and served as the “safety c
January 25, 2012
(Palm Beach, FL) January 24, 2012 --- After the 2nd annual PRO Winter Warm-Ups testing session came to a close Saturday, team owner John Force planned on staying an additional day to test but on Monday he made the decisi
January 25, 2012
CONCORD, N.C. – NHRA introduced two of the most intriguing rookie drivers in the history of the sport to the national motorsports media today during a press conference conducted as part of the NASCAR Sprint Media T
January 21, 2012
PALM BEACH, FL (January 21, 2012) --- Robert Hight ended the two day PRO Winter Warm-Up with a thundering, 4.034 seconds at 316.67 mph run, which was the quickest and fastest Funny Car run of testing. Hight and the Auto
January 20, 2012
PALM BEACH, FL (January 20, 2012) --- The 2nd annual PRO Winter Warm-Ups got off to a hot start for Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team. The 2009 NHRA Funny Car champion recorded two of the quickest runs of
January 19, 2012
PALM BEACH, FL (January 19, 2012) --- John Force Racing began its 2012 campaign for an unprecedented 18th NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car championship today at Palm Beach International Raceway. All four JFR Ford Mustang Fun
January 10, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (January 10, 2012) – Courtney Force, who for the last four seasons learned how to deal with all of the off-track aspects of professional racing, finally will get a chance to show what she can do
January 10, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (January 10, 2012) – Traxxas, which successfully created, manufactured and marketed the first RTR (Ready-to-Run) radio-controlled vehicles for the car enthusiast and which today is the world lea
January 10, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (January 10, 2012) – Ron Douglas, who helped direct Ashley Force Hood to second and third place finishes and back-to-back Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Funny Car titles in her two most recent seasons
January 10, 2012
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (January 10, 2012) – Unwilling to accept his team’s 2011 results as just an unexpected bump in the road, John Force made a series of aggressive off-season moves designed to return his name
January 05, 2012
ANAHEIM, CA (January 4, 2012) - When Jennifer Goodnight attended the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Charlotte, NC in the spring of 2011, the last thing she thought would happen was to get a call at the end of t
December 05, 2011
YORBA LINDA, California (December 2, 2011) – John Force announced this week that crew chief Danny DeGennaro has joined John Force Racing Inc. and that Dickie Venables, who helped Tony Pedregon win a pair of NHRA Fu
December 05, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (December 5, 2011) --- A day after the 14th annual John Force Racing Holiday Car Show the staff at the West Coast JFR HQ is still recovering from what many long-time employees consider the biggest and mos
December 05, 2011
(YORBA LINDA, CA) December 5, 2011 --- Every year since 1998, ESPN The Magazine has recognized an elite group of emerging athletes to watch in the year ahead -- athletes they call NEXT. They are competitors not only on t
December 02, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (December 1, 2011) --- The first edition of Destination Force, a graphic novel produced by John Force Entertainment, will be available on December 2nd in advance of the 14th annual John Force Racing Holid
November 29, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 29, 2011) --- This weekend at the John Force Racing headquarters and museum in Yorba Linda, California, 15-time NHRA Funny Car world champion John Force will welcome all of Southern California t
November 28, 2011
YORBA LINDA, Calif. – John Force answered any questions about his level of commitment to winning another NHRA Funny Car Championship by undergoing post-season surgery to repair a damaged right knee originally injur
November 14, 2011
POMONA, CA --- The 2011 Full Throttle Drag Racing season wrapped up for John Force Racing with Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang racing in the final round versus 2011 Full Throttle Funny Car champion Matt Hagan
November 13, 2011
GLENDORA, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2011) – NHRA’s 60th anniversary season began 11 months ago with a quest to determine the greatest moment in its 60-year history and Sunday, on the final day of the 2011 season, that
November 12, 2011
POMONA, CA --- An impressive run by Funny Car point leader Matt Hagan shifted Robert Hight and Mike Neff back a slot in the qualifying order and set up the potential for another historic championship comeback by John For
November 11, 2011
POMONA, CA --- After two days of qualifying at the 47th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals Robert Hight and Mike Neff remain at the top of the provisional Funny Car qualifying order. During the lone qualifying session today Hi
November 11, 2011
POMONA, CA --- Robert Hight and Mike Neff started the final race of the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season with strong performances on Thursday at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. Hight led the Funny Car class
November 09, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (November 9, 2011) --- John Force Racing, Inc. today announced a multi-year agreement with Portland, Ore.- based Freightliner Trucks where the 17-time NHRA Funny Car championship team will begin to rotate
November 09, 2011
POMONA, CA (November 9, 2011) --- It all comes down to the Auto Club NHRA Finals, November 10-13. Years ago this race was known as the World Finals and for Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team winning this ra
November 09, 2011
POMONA, Calif. – It should not be too surprising to find that Mike Neff is largely undaunted by the formidable task with which he is confronted this week in his bid to succeed his boss, John Force, as the NHRA Ful
November 09, 2011
POMONA, Calif. – John Force is so far back in the Full Throttle driver standings that if all his rivals were abducted by aliens and never arrived at Auto Club Raceway for this week’s 47th annual Auto Club Fi
November 07, 2011
ATLANTA (November 7, 2011)— Before the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series reaches its championship conclusion during the season-ending Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Auto Club Ra
October 31, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (October 31, 2011) --- The Auto Club Mustang Funny Car crew led by crew chief Jimmy Prock has been nominated as one of four finalists for the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Hard Working Crew Award in the Funny C
October 31, 2011
LAS VEGAS (Oct. 31, 2011) - The annual NHRA Breakfast at the SEMA show will highlight several of drag racing’s well respected and valued members of the drag racing community. This year’s breakfast will pay tr
October 30, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV --- On Sunday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Mike Neff and Robert Hight stumbled in their Full Throttle Funny Car championship pursuit dropping their respective first round match-ups. They did not
October 29, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV --- If history is a barometer tomorrow will be an epic day for the Funny Car category at the 11th annual NHRA Big O Tires Nationals. The winner of this event in the Funny Car class has gone on to win the Fu
October 28, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV --- On Friday at the 11th annual NHRA Big O Tires Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang took a page from the St. Louis Cardinals and kept battling fo
October 27, 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – John Force normally is not a betting man, but the gamble he took last January when he gave Mike Neff the “keys” to his Castrol GTX Ford, the Funny Car in which he won the 2010 Full T
October 27, 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – John Force could be the most dangerous driver in the field this week when the Full Throttle drag racing tour returns to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the11th running of the Bi
October 26, 2011
ATLANTA (October 26, 2011)—With less than 60 points separating the top five competitors in the quest for the 2011 Funny Car championship, there is a lot riding on the outcome of this weekend’s Big O Ti
October 24, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (October 24, 2011) --- With two races to go in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series Countdown the Top Fuel and Funny Car classes are battling down to the last few points. Nitro Rewind has the i
October 24, 2011
LAS VEGAS (October 24, 2011) --- The similarities are almost scary between Robert Hight’s 2011 and John Force’s 2010 respective positions heading into Halloween weekend and the 11th annual NHRA Big O Tires Na
October 24, 2011
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (Oct. 24, 2011) --- John Force, 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion, will answer fan questions in real time on an interactive video chat on Ford Racing’s Facebook page tomorrow before making his way
October 16, 2011
CHANDLER, AZ --- With two races left in the Countdown to the Championship Mike Neff and Robert Hight are leaving the 27th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals with a legitimate shot at winning the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Funny
October 15, 2011
CHANDLER, AZ --- With only 58 points separating Funny Car points leader Mike Neff from No. 5 contender Jack Beckman tomorrow’s race at Firebird International Raceway could be as pivotal a race day as the Countdown
October 14, 2011
CHANDLER, AZ --- Mike Neff knows that this Funny Car championship will most likely come down to the final race of the season at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona but today at the NHRA Arizona Nationals he reclaimed the Full Th
October 13, 2011
PHOENIX, Arizona – Five years ago, Mike Neff’s path to the Full Throttle Funny Car championship would have been far less circuitous than it has been thus far this season. In fact, if this was 2006, the man w
October 13, 2011
PHOENIX, Ariz. – There’s no question that John Force needs a miracle to repeat this year as the NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car Champion – and not just a minor miracle, either. We’re talking a
October 13, 2011
PHOENIX (October 11, 2011) --- Two weeks ago Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team were in a make or break situation in Reading, Pennsylvania. They had to make a move up the points or for all intents and purpo
October 03, 2011
READING, PA --- It took two days and repeated breaks in the racing action but Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team got their mo-jo back with three races remaining the Countdown to the Championship. On M
October 02, 2011
READING, PA. – A resurgent Robert “Top Gun” Hight drove the Auto Club Ford Mustang past the DieHard Dodge of new Full Throttle Funny Car points leader Matt Hagan Sunday before rain and cold forced NHRA
October 01, 2011
READING, PA --- John Force continued his mastery of Maple Grove Raceway today posting track record times in the first qualifying session on Saturday. His opening run of 4.011 seconds at 319.22 mph had both ends of the tr
September 30, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (September 30, 2011) --- Dallas’ AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals at Texas Motorplex produced two first time winners in the Nitro ranks as Bob Vandergriff won his first career Top Fuel title and Cruz P
September 30, 2011
READING, PA --- There are four races left in the Countdown to the Championship and everyone knows that moves need to be made this weekend at the 27th annual Auto Plus NHRA Nationals. John Force let the other Funny Car te
September 29, 2011
READING, Pa. – No one is more familiar with what is possible in the NHRA’s Countdown to 1 playoffs than Robert “Top Gun” Hight, the former world class marksman who, over the last seven seaso
September 29, 2011
READING, Pa. – Since Labor Day, Mike Neff has seen his Full Throttle points lead dwindle from 215 points to 30 points to 22 points to a measly four points. So, on the eve of this week’s 27th annual Auto-Plus
September 25, 2011
DALLAS, TX (September 25, 2011) --- The International Motorsports Hall of Fame has announced today that NHRA greats Kenny Bernstein and John Force will be inducted into the Hall of Fame along with NASCAR’s Ri
September 25, 2011
ENNIS, TX --- The Castrol GTX Ford Mustang and Mike Neff will leave the famed Texas Motorplex with the points lead but he got a little help from two unlikely competitors. In the premiere match-up of the first round at th
September 24, 2011
ENNIS, TX --- Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang have a feeling of déjà vu all over again. For the third race in a row Neff will square off with Matt Hagan and this is a classic 1 vs. 2 battle in th
September 23, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (September 22, 2011) --- The 2011 NHRA Countdown to the Championship has begun and Nitro Rewind continues to talk with the contenders and the spoilers. This week’s episode talks with the Top Fuel an
September 23, 2011
ENNIS, TX --- Robert Hight and the AAA Texas Ford Mustang led the way on Friday for John Force Racing at the 26th annual AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals. In the second qualifying session Hight tripped the lights in 4.154 s
September 22, 2011
DALLAS, Texas – Mike Neff grew up in the great outdoors. The Funny Car points leader raced motocross bikes and off-road trucks; rode ATVs and dirt bikes. He was into camping, water skiing, boating and golfi
September 22, 2011
DALLAS, Texas – Four years after leaving the Texas Motorplex by air ambulance with injuries that threatened not just his career, but his survival, drag racing icon John Force is hoping to take the final therapeutic
September 20, 2011
DALLAS, TX (September 20, 2011) --- At the end of August Robert Hight took a quick trip to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to promote the 26th annual AAA Texas Fall Nationals and take in a little baseball. Hight met with
September 18, 2011
CONCORD, NC --- Mike Neff came within a football field of ruining Matt Hagan’s picture perfect weekend at the 4th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. As Neff’s Castrol GTX Ford Mustang cros
September 17, 2011
CONCORD, NC --- The first day of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship started today at zMax Dragway in Concord and points leader Mike Neff led the way for John Force Racing posting the second quickest run on the day, 4
September 17, 2011
CONCORD, NC --- John Force and his Honoring Our Heroes Castrol GTX HIGH MILEAGE Ford Mustang raced into the field at the 4th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals today. In the first session of the day Force po
September 14, 2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – John Force has a great affinity for first responders and members of the American military. For 20 years, his brother Walker was a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy and he himself aspired
September 14, 2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The NHRA Countdown starts this weekend and that means that ten Funny Car teams have a chance to win the 2011 NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car Championship. Robert Hight and his Auto Club Ford Mustang prove
September 09, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (September 9, 2011) --- The biggest race of the season, the Mac Tools US Nationals, had the editors at Nitro Rewind scrambling. In addition to great Top Fuel and Funny winner interviews Nitro Rewind was t
September 06, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (September 6, 2011) --- To commemorate its 60th anniversary season, NHRA announced the 60 Greatest Moments in its history back in January and then it asked its fans, throughout the course of the 2011 seas
September 05, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Today at the richest and most prestigious drag race in history driver and tuner Mike Neff etched his name into the history books, making one of the most improbably runs to victory in the 57 years of
September 04, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Cooler temperatures greeted the fans and racers today at the 57th annual Mac Tools US Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis. The John Force Racing Ford Mustangs took advantage of the improve
September 04, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (September 4, 2011) – John Force will be celebrating his 15th Full Throttle NHRA Funny Car championship with a specially designed Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang which he will race for only o
September 03, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Two of the three John Force Mustangs improved on the second day of qualifying at the 57th annual Mac Tools US Nationals. The Castrol duo of John Force and Mike Neff raced into the top half of the fie
September 02, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang got off to a strong start at the 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals but Hight knows there is more than enough room for improvement. Paired up with teamma
September 02, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (September 2, 2011) --- In what has become a John Force Racing tradition team owner and 15-time Funny Car champion John Force unveiled his 15X Funny Car Champion Ford Mustang today at the 57th annu
September 01, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – When he was thrust back into the cockpit of the Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang this year after Ashley Force Hood announced she was putting her driving career on hold to start a family, Mike Neff
September 01, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – What’s this? John Force, the world’s premier drag racer, characterized as no more than a darkhorse at this week 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, the world’s premier drag
August 31, 2011
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 31, 2011) --- With the biggest race of the season just a few days away, the Auto Club Ford Mustang team led by driver Robert Hight and crew chief Jimmy Prock, is ready to race to another Mac Tools
August 30, 2011
DALLAS, TX (August 30, 2011) --- Robert Hight got the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals week started in unique fashion by spending two days in Dallas, Texas talking up the upcoming AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals, September 22-25 a
August 30, 2011
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 30, 2011) --- As thousands of NHRA Full Throttle Racing Series fans begin to arrive in Indianapolis today for the 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals they will be greeted by two John Force R
August 29, 2011
BROWNSBURG, IN (August 29, 2011) --- Once again NHRA fans and fans of cool muscle cars and hot rods will have the chance to mingle and view hundreds of show cars at the John Force Summer Car Show on Thursday, September 1
August 26, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (August 26, 2011) --- The 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals takes the green light Labor Day weekend and Nitro Rewind will be there giving fans all the behind the scenes dramatic moments of the la
August 21, 2011
BRAINERD, MN --- For the second year in a row John Force Racing was finished early at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Last year Robert Hight was eliminated in the second round of racing action ending the day for JFR and th
August 20, 2011
BRAINERD, MN --- Qualifying wrapped up on Saturday at Brainerd International Raceway and all three John Force Racing teams are ready to put today behind them and get to eliminations at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals. Rober
August 19, 2011
BRAINERD, MN --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team opened up the second qualifying session at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals with a strong run of 4.152 seconds and that time held up as the third quickest of
August 17, 2011
BRAINERD, MN (August 17, 2011) --- Even 17-time NHRA Funny Car championship teams need a little horsepower every now and then. On Friday, August 19th, John Force Racing will be getting their extra horsepower from Mills F
August 17, 2011
BRAINERD, MN (August 17, 2011) --- All three John Force Racing Funny Car drivers will be meeting and greeting NHRA fans and BrandSource customers at the Schroeder’s Appliance Center in Brainerd this Thursday, Augus
August 17, 2011
BRAINERD, MN (August 17, 2011) --- Two events have 2009 NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight eager to get his Auto Club Ford Mustang into competition at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals this weekend. One is his recent win at
August 16, 2011
BRAINERD, Minn. – As a driver, Mike Neff hasn’t won a single racing round in two previous appearances at Brainerd International Raceway, site of this week’s 30th annual Lucas Oil Nationals.
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August 16, 2011
BRAINERD, Minn. – Within reach of a milestone that would apply yet another exclamation point to his resume as the most successful driver in the history of professional drag racing, John Force couldn’t find hi
August 11, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (August 11, 2011) --- This summer the John Force Racing Road Show has thrilled fans at the Indianapolis 500, educated fans at five Denver area Super Wal-Mart locations for a week in advance of the NHRA Mo
August 11, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (August 11, 2011) --- With the Western Swing in the rear view mirror teams are looking to secure their position in the Countdown or looking at strategies to enhance their NHRA championship chances. Comin
August 07, 2011
KENT, WA --- There was no Wally hoisted by JFR this weekend at the 24th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals but Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team joined teammate Mike Neff as Countdow
August 06, 2011
KENT, WA --- Even though John Force lost control of the No. 1 qualifier spot to fellow Ford driver Tim Wilkerson the JFR pit was all smiles as qualifying concluded at the 24th annual NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Northw
August 05, 2011
KENT, WA --- John Force and the Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang raced to the top of the Funny Car field at Pacific Raceway on Friday. His opening run of 4.124 seconds at 304.87 mph, a track record, was enough to gr
August 05, 2011
SEATTLE, Wash. – Points leader Mike Neff’s surprising first round loss last week at Sonoma, Calif., has not been cause for concern inside John Force Racing, the high energy, high performance juggernaut that h
August 05, 2011
SEATTLE, Wash. – With his bid to sweep the critical Western Swing derailed last Sunday at Sonoma, Calif., John Force this week shifts his focus to Pacific Raceways, to the 24th annual O’Reilly Northwest Natio
August 04, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (August 4, 2011) --- Two thirds of the Western Swing races are in the books and there will be no sweeps as Nitro Rewind looks back at Sonoma’s FRAM/Autolite NHRA Nationals and caps off The Swing wit
August 04, 2011
SEATTLE, WA (August 3, 2011) --- Five years ago BrandSource and John Force Racing teamed up to offer fans at NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series events the chance to “Win with Force” at select national even
August 02, 2011
SEATTLE, Wash. – So far this season, Robert Hight’s Auto Club Ford Mustang has demonstrated all the traits of the protagonist in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “There Was a Little Girl.”
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July 31, 2011
DEARBORN, Mich., July 30, 2011 – When Courtney Force was 15 and learning to drive, her parents John and Laurie – especially Laurie - taught her to drive slowly. Slowly as in speed, of course. But they also sl
July 31, 2011
SONOMA, CA --- No. 1 qualifier John Force raced into the semis at the 24th annual NHRA FRAM/Autolite Nationals today before being defeated by fellow Ford driver Tim Wilkerson. Force eliminated Brian Thiel and Gary Densha
July 30, 2011
SONOMA, CA --- On Friday at the 24th annual NHRA FRAM/Autolite Nationals John Force picked up right where he left off in Denver sitting in the No. 1 spot as the sun set on Infineon Raceway. Force, the seven-time FRAM/Aut
July 30, 2011
SONOMA, CA --- It took over twenty-five years but today John Force added one more record to his illustrious list of personal achievements qualifying No. 1 at the 24th annual NHRA FRAM/Autolite Nationals for the 139 No. 1
July 29, 2011
SONOMA, Calif. – Much has been made this season of the exhaustive nature of Mike Neff’s work as both driver and crew chief on a Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang that has reached the Funny Car final seven times i
July 29, 2011
SONOMA, Calif. – John Force has resigned himself to the fact that he NEVER is going to break stock car legend Richard Petty’s record for career victories in a major series. That’s because the target nu
July 29, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (July 29, 2011) --- John Force used his downtime between winning the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationalslast weekend and the NHRA FRAM Autolite Nationals in Sonoma today to make a quick trip to the legendary E
July 28, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (July 28, 2011) --- Nitro Rewind kicks off the Western Swing coverage with a look back at the NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals in Denver and a look ahead to the Fram/Autolite NHRA Nationals in Sonoma, Calif
July 27, 2011
SONOMA, CA (July 27, 2011) --- In the early 90’s Robert Hight would drive to Infineon Raceway to see the stars of the NHRA race. The Alturas, Calif., native would dream about getting involved in a sport he felt a h
July 24, 2011
MORRISON, CO --- John Force joined his teammates, Mike Neff and Robert Hight, by adding an NHRA 60th anniversary commemorative Wally to his trophy case winning the 32nd annual NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals today. Force
July 23, 2011
MORRISON, CO --- There were no major changes in the qualifying order at the 32nd annual NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals today. The three John Force Racing Mustangs all held onto their top spots qualifying in the No. 2, No
July 22, 2011
MORRISON, CO --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang picked up on Friday night at the 32nd annual NHRA Mopar Mile High Nationals right where they left off in 2010. Last year’s event winner recorded the quic
July 21, 2011
DENVER (July 21, 2011) --- Heading into the 2010 MOPAR Mile High NHRA Nationals Robert Hight had never won four races in one season. With a dominant tune-up and some great driving Hight left Denver last year with his fou
July 21, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (July 21, 2011) --- The John Force Road Show will be in Oshkosh, Wisconsin celebrating the beauty and power of flight while also promoting the land-based power of John Force Racing and NHRA Full Throttle
July 21, 2011
DENVER, Colo. – This year, Mike Neff has demonstrated his mechanical mastery over both hot and cool weather conditions, over bumpy tracks and smooth ones and over slippery surfaces as well as those with traction su
July 21, 2011
DENVER, Colo. – John Force has spent a lot of time this season managing youngest daughter Courtney’s driver training program, orchestrating a build-up of studio facilities for John Force Entertainment in Yorb
July 18, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA --- As the NHRA greatest moments add up the latest opportunity for fans to recognize NHRA immortality was added today to the NHRA’s Facebook page. Up for fan consideration is John Force’s dram
July 15, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (July 15, 2011) --- With the Western Swing right around the corner Nitro Rewind is back talking about the O’Reilly Rt. 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago and the first look at the MOPAR Mile-High NHRA Nat
July 13, 2011
DENVER, CO (July 13, 2011) --- Beginning this week the John Force Road Show will be displaying five of the famed Funny Cars that helped the team win its 17 Full Throttle NHRA Funny Car championships at area Denver Wal-Ma
July 10, 2011
JOLIET, IL --- At the O’Reilly Rt. 66 NHRA Nationals the only thing hotter than Rt. 66 Raceway was the performance of Mike Neff and his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang. Throughout the day Neff’s Mustang laid down ru
July 09, 2011
JOLIET, IL --- Mike Neff’s Friday prediction of quicker elapsed time during Saturday’s second night session of the 14th annual NHRA O’Reilly Rt. 66 Nationals did not come to fruition. Track temperatures
July 08, 2011
JOLIET, IL --- A hot day cooled off most of the John Force Racing Mustangs throughout the day at Rt. 66 Raceway in Joliet. Current points leader Mike Neff made the best run of the trio of Ford Mustangs racing to the top
July 07, 2011
CHICAGO (July 6, 2011) --- Last year headed into Rt. 66 Raceway Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team were hot, real hot. They were riding a three race win streak and looked like world beaters en route to anot
July 06, 2011
JOLIET, Ill. – The National Hot Rod Association is in town this week, bringing its 300 mile per hour, straight-line drag racing circus back to Chicagoland Speedway for the 14th renewal of the O’Reilly Auto Pa
July 06, 2011
JOLIET, Ill. – Mike Neff is nothing if not unconventional.
In an age of motor racing specialization, the current Full Throttle points leader, the Funny Car favorite in this week’s 14th annual O
June 30, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (June 30, 2011) --- Nitro Rewind is back with a look back at the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk and a look ahead to the O’Reilly Rt. 66 Nationals in Chicago, July 8-10. The show,
June 26, 2011
NORWALK, OH --- Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Ford Mustang won for the third time in six final round appearances this season taking the Wally trophy at the 5th annual NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals. Neff defeated
June 24, 2011
NORWALK, Ohio – In this age of specialization, serving as both driver and crew chief on one of the world’s most powerful race cars is exceedingly challenging, a reality underscored by the fact that it’s
June 24, 2011
NORWALK, Ohio – Drag racing icon John Force loves Ohio. Unfortunately, Ohio hasn’t always loved him back.
In 33-plus seasons on the NHRA pro tour, 15 of which have yielded series championships
June 24, 2011
NORWALK, OH (June 23, 2011) --- With four of the 60th anniversary commemorative pewter “Wally’s” in his trophy case already this season 2009 Full Throttle NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight is looking
June 24, 2011
NORWALK, Ohio – NHRA officials grudgingly yielded to the elements Friday afternoon, canceling first day qualifying leading up to Sunday’s fifth annual Summit Racing Equipment Nationals at Summit Motorsports P
June 23, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (June 23, 2011) --- This week’s episode of Nitro Rewind looks back at the NHRA Ford Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol and previews this weekend’s 5th annual NHRA Summit Equipment Nationals,
June 19, 2011
BRISTOL, TN --- Robert Hight said he was ready to battle at Bristol Dragway and today he gave the historic track in Thunder Valley a knock-out punch winning in Bristol for the first time and the fourth time in 2011. On t
June 17, 2011
BRISTOL, TN --- A three hour rain delay at the 11th annual NHRA Ford Thunder Valley Nationals gave the three John Force Racing Mustangs a chance to improve their qualifying positions and they took advantage of Mother Nat
June 17, 2011
BRISTOL, TN --- After a long day of racing action Robert Hight and the Auto Club Mustang team proved that their consistent efforts in previous races could start paying off at a track where the 21-time winner has struggle
June 16, 2011
BRISTOL, TN (June 13, 2011) --- The past four years at Bristol Dragway have not been kind to 2009 Full Throttle NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight. As Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang team roll into Bruton Smith&rs
June 16, 2011
BRISTOL, Tenn. – In only 56 appearances as a professional race car driver, Mike Neff has established two truths.
One is that he and his Castrol GTX® Ford Mustang can compete with the NHRA elite
June 16, 2011
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Over the course of his spectacular career, John Force has raced Castrol GTX® Ford Mustangs that have recalled Superman, Frankenstein and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
The ques
June 09, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (June 9, 2011) --- This week’s episode of Nitro Rewind will look back at the NHRA Englishtown race and preview the 11th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals coming up June 17-19. The show, an i
June 07, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA --- (June 7, 2011) --- John Force, 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion, and Carl Edwards, 19-time NASCAR Sprint Cup winner, are featured in a national television commercial promoting the Ford 40 MPG aspect o
June 05, 2011
OLD BRIDGE, NJ --- Castrol GTX driver Mike Neff took a bad day on Friday turned it into a good day on Saturday then an excellent day on Sunday racing to his second win of the season at the 42nd annual NHRA SuperNationals
June 04, 2011
OLD BRIDGE, NJ --- On Saturday the pressure was ratcheted up at the 42nd annual NHRA SuperNationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park. Going into the final day of qualifying the two Castrol sponsored Ford Mustangs were
June 03, 2011
OLD BRIDGE, NJ --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang picked up where they left off in Topeka, a race he won two weeks ago, racing to the provisional No.1 spot on Friday at the NHRA SuperNationals. Hight closed
June 02, 2011
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ (June 1, 2011) --- Robert Hight is hoping to get the Auto Club Ford Mustang to the winner’s circle for the third time. Ironically if Hight is successful it would be his first personal trip to the wi
June 02, 2011
WAYNE, N.J. – Mike Munro, General Manager, North America, for BP Lubricants Americas, the U.S. distributor of premium Castrol motor oils including Castrol GTX, Castrol GTX HIGH MILEAGE and Castrol EDGE, has formall
June 01, 2011
ENGLISHTOWN, NJ --- John Force and Robert Hight will be at All American Ford of Old Bridge on June 2nd from 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. meeting fans and talking up the NHRA Supernationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway
May 31, 2011
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – If things go as anticipated this week at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Funny Car points leader Mike Neff won’t be in actual competition for more than 16 or 17 seconds.
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May 31, 2011
ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. – Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, site of this week’s 42nd annual NHRA SuperNationals, is not the venue at which one would expect drag racing icon John Force and his Castrol GTX® High
May 30, 2011
BIG CROWDS, EXCITEMENT GREET JFR AT INDY 500 WEEKEND
BROWNSBURG, IN (May 30, 2011) --- The inaugural trip to the Indy 500 was a whirlwind of fans, drivers, media and overall excitement for the drivers of J
May 27, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (May 26, 2011) --- This week’s episode of Nitro Rewind will preview the 42nd annual SuperNationals on the NHRA YouTube channel. The show, an internet based broadcast, is hosted by Bill Stephens and
May 26, 2011
-Fifth annual event hosted by the Brownsburg Motorsports Network-
BROWNSBURG, IN (May 25, 2011) --- On the eve of the centennial Indianapolis 500 over half a dozen of the premier motorsports race shops in
May 26, 2011
BROWNSBURG, IN (May 26, 2011) --- In January John Force announced he was going to take a page from the PT Barnum book on promotion and start spreading the gospel about the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series as well as othe
May 26, 2011
BROWNSBURG, IN (May 26, 2011) --- John Force Racing has just confirmed that 15-time NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car champion John Force will be signing autographs at the John Force Road Show at the Indianapolis 500 on Frida
May 22, 2011
TOPEKA, KS --- Robert Hight and the Auto Club Ford Mustang took full advantage of a get well weekend winning for the third time in 2011 at the 23rd annual NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park – Topeka. This was
May 21, 2011
TOPEKA, KS --- All three John Force Racing Ford Mustangs and their respective drivers can make strong cases for success on race day at the 23rd annual NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park – Topeka.
May 20, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (May 19, 2011) --- This week’s episode of Nitro Rewind will preview the 23rd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Summer Nationals on the NHRA YouTube channel. The show, an internet based broadcast, is
May 20, 2011
TOPEKA, KS --- The rains came to Heartland Park – Topeka early this morning and throughout most of the day fans were forced to wander the pits wondering if they would see any racing action on the first day of the N
May 19, 2011
TOPEKA, Kan. – Mike Neff, the talented Funny Car crew chief who last year helped return drag racing icon John Force to prominence by directing him to six NHRA tour victories, undoubtedly is the best of the current
May 19, 2011
TOPEKA, Kan. – Think of John Force as a drag racing nomad wandering aimlessly through a competitive desert. Think of Heartland Park-Topeka, site of this week’s 23rd annual NHRA Summer Nationals, as his oasis
May 19, 2011
TOPEKA, KS --- Last year Robert Hight and the Auto Club team broke through at Heartland Park – Topeka for their first win at the O’Reilly NHRA Summmer Nationals. The win capped a three in a row streak for the
May 15, 2011
COMMERCE, GA --- Mike Neff proved that you don’t have to have the best Funny Car to race for a title at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals. Over the course of the weekend and especially today his C
May 14, 2011
COMMERCE, GA --- John Force had to wait through multiple rain delays at Atlanta Dragway but at the end of Saturday’s qualifying session he held onto the No. 1 qualifying position and added one more record to the ev
May 13, 2011
COMMERCE, GA --- John Force and his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang took one more step closer to the all-time record books but along the way they picked up an Atlanta Dragway track record. Force raced to the provis
May 10, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (May 9, 2011) --- Today John Force Entertainment upload its third video promoting NHRA’s Greatest Moments centered around John Force Racing achievements in the first 60 years of the NHRA. The first
May 10, 2011
ATLANTA, Ga. – In addition to an obviously unparalleled level of communication between driver and crew chief, points leader Mike Neff has discovered another benefit to his dual role with the Castrol GTX® Ford M
May 10, 2011
ATLANTA, Ga. – In the 31st annual Summit Racing Southern Nationals, an event in which he has gone to the finals more often than any other (14 times in the last 25 years), John Force this week tries to grab a share
May 09, 2011
ATLANTA, GA (May 9, 2011) --- There is only one other track that Robert Hight has dominated as much as Atlanta Dragway in the first six years of his professional driving career. Joining the home of the Summit Racing Equi
May 06, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (May 5, 2011) --- The second episode of Nitro Rewind will preview to the 31st annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals on the NHRA YouTube channel. The show, an internet based broadcast, is
May 01, 2011
BAYTOWN, TX --- Mike Neff and the Castrol GTX Mustang dominated all day at the O’Reilly Spring Nationals at Royal Purple Raceway. Through the first three rounds of eliminations Neff was untouchable but the only thi
April 30, 2011
BAYTOWN, TX --- John Force and his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang held onto the top qualifying spot at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals, the 137th of his legendary career. It was Force’s t
April 29, 2011
BAYTOWN, TX --- John Force is recognized by many fans as drag racing royalty. Today at Royal Purple Raceway he was the king of the class recording the quickest runs of both Funny Car qualifying sessions, 4.174 seconds an
April 27, 2011
HOUSTON, Texas – It looked like current Full Throttle Funny Car points leader Robert Hight was going to own Royal Purple Raceway when after just four professional starts the Northern California native qualified No.
April 21, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (April 21, 2011) --- As a preview to the 24th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Spring Nationals John Force Entertainment will be posting the first installment of Nitro Rewind on the NHRA YouTube chan
April 17, 2011
CHARLOTTE, NC --- A promising qualifying start was derailed in the second round of the VisitMyrtleBeach.com NHRA Four Wide Nationals as all three John Force Racing Mustangs were ousted at zMAX Dragway. Robert Hight and h
April 16, 2011
CHARLOTTE, NC --- John Force turned the tables on teammate and son-in-law Robert Hight today at the 2nd annual VisitMyrtleBeach.com NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. Force blasted to the top of the Funny Car class with a 4.056 s
April 13, 2011
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In an age of specialization, it is Mike Neff’s versatility that distinguishes him from the rest of those vying this year for the NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car Championship.
Win
April 13, 2011
CHARLOTTE, NC (April 12, 2011) --- Robert “Top Gun” Hight has come out of the off-season guns blazing. He has added two wins already the season to his growing list of accomplishments that includes leading the
April 13, 2011
CHARLOTTE, NC (April 13, 2011) --- Tomorrow night the drivers of John Force Racing will be four wide at the Town and Country Ford located at 5401 East Independence Boulevard in Charlotte from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Four d
April 08, 2011
FT WORTH, TX (April 7, 2011) --- John Force brought the house down at the Speedway Club at Bruton Smith’s crown jewel of the southwest, Texas Motor Speedway, during the 8th annual Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame ind
April 03, 2011
LAS VEGAS --- Robert Hight did something on Sunday that no other Funny Car driver has ever done. He drove his Automobile Club of Southern California Ford Mustang into the winner’s circle of the 12th annual SummitRa
April 02, 2011
LAS VEGAS --- John Force and his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang proved that he is still a force to be reckoned with racing to the top spot in a tough Funny Car field at the 12th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nation
April 01, 2011
LAS VEGAS --- The desert heat played tricks with John Force Racing on Friday at the 12th annual Summitracing.com NHRA Nationals. At the conclusion of racing today John Force sat in the provisional No. 2 and Robert Hight
March 30, 2011
LAS VEGAS, NV (March 30, 2011) --- Robert Hight has opened the season with a win and a tough second round loss. The 2009 Full Throttle Funny Car champion is looking to regain some momentum at the SummitRacing.com NHRA Na
March 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (March 24, 2011) --- NHRA superstar and Castrol GTX funny car driver Ashley Force Hood will be one of the celebrity headliners at the 37th annual Piston Ring World of Wheels show in Winnipeg, MB this week
March 13, 2011
GAINESVILLE, FL --- Mike Neff and his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang were hot on Saturday and they got hotter on Sunday racing to a second career win as a driver at the 42nd annual Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals. The win was
March 12, 2011
GAINESVILLE --- Last night Mike Neff talked about being aggressive on the track today and he put his bonus points where his mouth was. Neff’s Castrol GTX Ford Mustang was the quickest funny car in both sessions on
March 11, 2011
GAINESVILLE --- The conditions at Gainesville Raceway were solid all day for the 42nd Tire Kingdom NHRA Gatornationals but only one John Force Racing Mustang was able to really capitalize on the first day of qualifying.
March 10, 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Figuratively, John Force used to own Gainesville Raceway, site of this week’s 42nd annual Tire Kingdom Gatornationals. In one 10-year stretch, in fact, the 61-year-old drag racing icon pu
March 10, 2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Over the last six years, Mike Neff has guided two of drag racing’s biggest stars to the NHRA Funny Car championship, winning with Gary Scelzi in 2005 and John Force five years later.
March 09, 2011
GAINESVILLE, FL (March 9, 2011) --- Tomorrow, the Civil Defense Music Group will invade Gainesville, Florida with an action packed evening of entertainment at the Common Grounds nightclub featuring Marilyn Manson founder
March 09, 2011
GAINESVILLE, FL (March 8, 2011) --- Robert Hight is still riding high from his season opening win at the 51st annual Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals. In fact the 41 year-old former crewman has not even stopped
March 08, 2011
LAS VEGAS (March 8, 2011) --- When the John Force Racing Road Show was announced in January during the season kick-off press conference at the John Force Racing Yorba Linda headquarters the idea received immediate positi
March 06, 2011
This weekend NHRA Full Throttle funny car champions John Force and Robert Hight introduced up and coming funny car driver Courtney Force to a whole new world of horsepower. The youngest Force enjoyed her first experience
March 02, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (March 1, 2011) ---Minutes after Robert Hight and his Jimmy Prock tuned Auto Club Ford Mustang raced to a season opening win at the 51st annual Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals Hight was giving
February 27, 2011
POMONA --- Robert Hight had to endure a long cold winter. Beginning with his last round win in Brainerd at the Lucas Oil Nationals in August the 41-year old former crewman’s season ground to a halt when over the ne
February 26, 2011
POMONA --- On a day that started with a fifteen minute hail storm and ended with a Funny Car getting a leg up on the national record, John Force Racing was consistent and quick throughout the day’s two qualifying s
February 25, 2011
Johnny Gray Surprise First Day Leader; Weather Could Impact 2011 Opener
POMONA, Calif. – On a day on which being the quickest qualifier wasn’t as important as simply being qualified, the three
February 25, 2011
POMONA, CA (February 25, 2011) --- Persistent rain forced the cancellation of the lone Friday qualifying session at the 51st annual Kragen O’Reilly NHRA Winternationals. NHRA Safety Safari officials repeatedly trie
February 23, 2011
POMONA, Calif. – At Auto Club Raceway, a track on which he was undefeated a year ago, one on which he has won 14 NHRA tour events and a record 105 racing rounds and one on which he came from behind to claim a memor
February 23, 2011
POMONA, Calif. – Over the last four NHRA seasons, no one has won more often at Auto Club Raceway, site of this week’s season-opening, 51st annual Kragen O’Reilly Winternationals, than Mike Neff.
February 21, 2011
POMONA, CA (February 21, 2011) --- For 2009 Full Throttle Funny Car champion Robert Hight the end of 2010 is a six race stretch he would like to forget. An 0-5 round record has been pushed out of the world class trapshoo
February 19, 2011
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (February 18, 2011) – An appreciative John Force accepted congratulations today after the editors of RACER Magazine confirmed that their readers overwhelmingly had voted him 2010's Racer of the
February 14, 2011
BROWNSBURG, Ind. (February 14, 2011) --- The entire stable of John Force Racing Mustangs received a make-over during the off-season. Gone was the 25th anniversary look of John Force’s Castrol High Mileage Mustang.
February 05, 2011
JUPITER, FL (February 5, 2011) --- Mike Neff opened the second day of testing for John Force Racing blasting down the Palm Beach International Raceway track in 4.034 seconds at 312.06 mph. Neff’s Castrol GTX Ford M
February 04, 2011
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (February 4, 2011) --- John Force Racing opened the 2011 testing session at Palm Beach International Raceway with a strong showing during the Inaugural PRO Winter Warm-Up event. JFR posted the second
January 31, 2011
Jupiter, Fla. (January 31, 2011) – Palm Beach International Raceway is excited to announce it will be hosting the inaugural Pro Winter Warm-up Friday February 4 and Saturday February 5 at the all-concrete champions
January 27, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 27, 2011) --- Fresh off the announcement that has been promoted to president of John Force Racing, Inc., 2009 NHRA Funny Car champion Robert Hight will head to St. Louis to represent AAA Missouri
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) – Two-time reigning Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Champion Ashley Force Hood, a top three finisher in the NHRA Full Throttle driver standings each of the last two seasons, announced Tu
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) --- Tuesday was graduation day for Courtney Force as the youngest daughter of 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force was introduced during a press conference at John Force Racing co
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) – In the wake of daughter Ashley Force Hood’s announcement that she is temporarily stepping away from competition in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series to focus on fa
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) --- At the end of every season at John Force Racing, there is a feeling of anticipation that runs through the entire organization. It is not the excitement of cashing championship bonus
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) --- Fifteen-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force announced today that he is reorganizing John Force Racing, Inc., and, effective immediately, is promoting his son-in-law, 2009 NHRA F
January 25, 2011
YORBA LINDA, CA (January 25, 2011) --- John Force will be the first person to admit that he has some P.T. Barnum DNA running through his veins. In fact, the 15-time NHRA Funny Car champion is known as much for hi
November 14, 2010
POMONA, CA - On a day that could not have been scripted any better, the namesake of John Force Racing, 14-time Funny Car champion John Force, became a 15-time NHRA Full Throttle Funny Car champion by racing to the semi-f
November 08, 2010
YORBA LINDA, CA - The Castrol GTX Mustang Funny Car crew led by co-crew chiefs Dean "Guido" Antonelli and Ron Douglas has been nominated as one of four finalists for the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Hard Worki
October 31, 2010
LAS VEGAS, NV - If NHRA drag racing was the World Series of Poker John Force would have added another bracelet today for his dramatic performance when the chips were down. Force was on a collision course with Full
October 10, 2010
October 10, 2010
READING, PA - It was a tough day for the Ford Mustangs of John Force Racing at the 26th annual Toyo Tires NHRA Nationals. In a bizarre turn of events all three JFR Mustangs failed to advance out o
September 26, 2010
September 26, 2010
DALLAS, TX - NHRA legend John Force was racing for history at the 25th annual O'Reilly Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals. He was racing in his 500th race with primary sponsor Castrol at
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