Defending race winner John Force, PEAK Chevy
team take the fight to Sonoma Raceway

SONOMA, Calif. (July 25) – Sixteen-time Funny Car champion John Force rolls into Sonoma Raceway with his PEAK Coolant and Motor Oil Chevrolet Camaro SS team for the NHRA Sonoma Nationals this weekend as the race’s defending champion.
Force has also been in the final round in three of the last four seasons at a track that has been a good one for the legendary driver. He has eight victories at the northern California track, the most among any driver in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series.
And Sonoma also holds other special memories for Force, who in 2006 witnessed Eric Medlen win here for John Force Racing. Medlen was critically injured in a crash during testing the next year and later succumbed to those injuries. Continue reading Defending race winner John Force, PEAK Chevy team take the fight to Sonoma Raceway →

Courtney Force hopes Advance Auto Parts
team will be a race-day force in Sonoma

SONOMA, Calif. (July 25) – Advance Auto Parts driver Courtney Force watched her John Force Racing teammate win last weekend, and she’d love to follow Robert Hight into the winner’s circle in the NHRA Sonoma Nationals this weekend at Sonoma Raceway.
Hight had raced to two final rounds this season before breaking through with his first victory of 2017 at Bandimere Speedway on Sunday. Force herself has two final-round appearances this season, yet is still looking for victory No. 1 of 2017. Continue reading Courtney Force hopes Advance Auto Parts team will be a race-day force in Sonoma →

Brittany Force looks for first Sonoma victory
with her Monster Energy Top Fuel dragster

SONOMA, Calif. (July 25) – Brittany Force and her Monster Energy Top Fuel dragster head into the second leg of the annual Western Swing, the NHRA Nationals at Sonoma Raceway, confident in challenging not just for round wins but overall victory.
Force, of Yorba Linda, Calif., has won first-round matchups in seven NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series races – she’s qualified No. 1 or No. 2 in three of those and no worse than No. 6, by the way – and has advanced to the semifinals in four of the last six races, winning at Epping, N.H.
In two of the other three semifinals appearances, including last weekend’s Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, Colo., she fell to the eventual race winner. Continue reading Brittany Force looks for first Sonoma victory with her Monster Energy Top Fuel dragster →

Denver winner Robert Hight looks to stay
hot in Sonoma with Auto Club Chevrolet

SONOMA, Calif. (July 25) – Robert Hight, driver of the Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro, heads into this weekend’s NHRA Nationals at Sonoma Raceway as the only driver in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Funny Car class that can sweep the Western Swing.
“You can’t sweep it unless you win Denver,” Hight said. Continue reading Denver winner Robert Hight looks to stay hot in Sonoma with Auto Club Chevrolet →

Semifinal finish in Mile-High Nationals a good start to Western Swing for Monster Energy’s Brittany Force

MORRISON, Colo. (July 23) – Brittany Force pushed herself and the Monster Energy Top Fuel dragster to the semifinals of the NHRA Mile-High Nationals on Sunday at Bandimere Speedway, marking a solid start to the Western Swing.
The Swing, the three-race stretch that starts with this race, continues next week at Sonoma Raceway and concludes in Seattle. It’s an important part of the 2017 season, as the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis is two races after the Swing ends – and then the Countdown to the Championship begins. Continue reading Semifinal finish in Mile-High Nationals a good start to Western Swing for Monster Energy’s Brittany Force →

Despite Denver exit, 16-time champ John Force
‘feeling good’ about his PEAK Chevrolet team

MORRISON, Colo. (July 23) – PEAK Coolant and Motor Oil driver John Force wouldn’t make any excuses after suffering a close first-round loss at the NHRA Mile-High Nationals on Sunday at Bandimere Speedway.
But Force is encouraged by the progress his John Force Racing team continues to make, and by the camaraderie his team continues to show.
“I’m feeling good about this team because they’re staying together,” Force said. “We’re going to turn the corner.” Continue reading Despite Denver exit, 16-time champ John Force ‘feeling good’ about his PEAK Chevrolet team →

Courtney Force can’t ‘Advance’ her Chevrolet Camaro SS
from Denver’s No. 1 qualifying spot

MORRISON, Colo. (July 23) – Courtney Force and her Advance Auto Parts team started the Western Swing on the right foot, speeding to the No. 1 qualifier for the Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway.
But Force bowed out of the race too early when her Chevrolet Camaro SS struggled off the starting line before shutting off before the finish line.
“JFR being 1-2-3, that’s starting off the Western Swing right,” Force said. “Unfortunately, we had a hole out on the hit of the throttle, so immediately, our car left slow. I brought it back in the center, and it stayed hooked up, but once it got down to the top end our pan pressure was through the roof, and it shut my car off automatically, so we had to coast to the finish line.” Continue reading Courtney Force can’t ‘Advance’ her Chevrolet Camaro SS from Denver’s No. 1 qualifying spot →