BRISTOL, TN ---- John Force continued to rewrite the record books winning for the 135th time in his Funny Car career today. This is the 26th season the 15-time NHRA Mello Yello Funny Car champion has won at least one race in a season. Force defeated daughter Courtney Force, Matt Hagan, Blake Alexander and Cruz Pedregon on the way to his fourth Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Tri-Cities Ford Dealers victory. This was Force’s fifth win at Bristol Dragway. He also won the inaugural race, the 1999 Winston Showdown, when he defeated Bob Vandergriff’s Top Fuel dragster and collected $210,000 for the win and being No. 1 qualifier at that race.
On a day when his Castrol GTX Ford Mustang was the quickest Funny Car in every round Force was unstoppable. Conditions we comparable to Saturdays qualifying sessions and Force took advantage running 4.125, 4.167, 4.117 and 4.148 seconds in the final. His race day average ET was 4.139 seconds. His reaction times were equally as...
