SECOND CONSECUTIVE WIN
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 7, 2018) — Reigning Funny Car world champion Robert Hight raced to his 45th career victory, fourth of the season and fourth at the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. The victory comes after a fiery win in St. Louis that sent Hight to the hospital with a broken collarbone, on which he had surgery nine days before qualifying at the Texas Motorplex.

The win is something special for several reasons. For one, Hight didn’t get to celebrate the win in St. Louis with his team, who had a busy off weekend building a brand-new car for the champ. Second, both the races in St. Louis and this weekend are AAA sponsored events and Tom McKernan with Auto Club, was instrumental in getting Hight into USC Medical Center to get a second opinion on his injury and in each of his championship seasons (2009, 2017) Hight has had a victory at Texas Motorplex. Continue reading SECOND CONSECUTIVE WIN →

BRITTANY FORCE LEADS JOHN FORCE RACING FRIDAY AT
AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 5, 2018) — Reigning event champion Brittany Force piloted her Advance Auto Parts Top Fuel dragster to the No. 3 qualifying position Friday night at the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. In Funny Car, Robert Hight powered to the No. 7 spot just two weeks after a massive explosion and win in St Louis. John Force is sitting in the No. 8 spot and Courtney Force is currently No. 11.
During the heat of the day, Brittany Force, sporting a TrueTimber pink camo paint scheme in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month, smoked the tires to land the Advance Auto Parts Monster Energy team in the No. 13 spot. The reigning champ was in good company at the bottom of the pack, three-time world champion Antron Brown was 14th while current point leader Steve Torrence was 12th. Continue reading BRITTANY FORCE LEADS JOHN FORCE RACING FRIDAY AT AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS →

ROBERT HIGHT MEDICAL UPDATE

ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 5, 2018) — Funny Car points leader Robert Hight underwent surgery on Wednesday, September 26th for a left clavicle open reduction and internal fixation. He was seen again by George Hatch of Keck Medical Center of USC’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery on Thursday, October 4th for an examination of his left shoulder and clavicle and was released to unrestricted activities. He was cleared to compete in all racing activities effective October 4th.

Hight returned to the seat of his AAA Texas Chevy Camaro on Friday, October 5th during the first qualifying session and will continue to race the remainder of the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season.

POINTS LEADER ROBERT HIGHT EAGER FOR MORE HIGH-PERFORMANCE AT
AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 4, 2018) — Two weeks ago Robert Hight and the AAA Texas Chevrolet Camaro took over the Funny Car points lead with a semifinal win over Tommy Johnson Jr. at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals in St Louis. He extended his lead in spectacular fashion outrunning veteran racer Tim Wilkerson in the final for his third win of the season. Continue reading POINTS LEADER ROBERT HIGHT EAGER FOR MORE HIGH-PERFORMANCE AT AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS →

JOHN FORCE NOT LACKING MOTIVATION IN RETURN TO
AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 4, 2018) — In a career in which he’s hoisted a record 16 NHRA championship trophies, won a record 149 Mello Yello tour events, been recognized as the Driver of the Year for all American motor racing (1996) and been inducted into two Motorsports Halls of Fame (neither exclusive to drag racing), John Force has been able to cross an awful lot of items off his competitive bucket list.

Nevertheless, the driver of the PEAK Coolant and Motor Oil Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car never is short on incentive when the tour returns to Billy Meyer’s Texas Motorplex as it does this week for the 33rd renewal of the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals. Continue reading JOHN FORCE NOT LACKING MOTIVATION IN RETURN TO AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS →

BRITTANY FORCE HOPES CHANGES BRING REPEAT SUCCES AT
AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 3, 2018) — Defending Top Fuel world champion Brittany Force hasn’t lost her confidence after a less than perfect season. Still in the hunt for a second championship, her confidence extends to her hard-working team who had a busy off week leading into the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex this weekend.

“We head into Dallas with a lot of changes. We are determined to turn this car around. We’ve really been struggling and we need to step up in points and go after some wins,” said Force, who is the defending event winner. “During this off week my team made a lot of changes to the car, they actually front halved it. We think that will fix some of the problems we’ve been having, smoking the tires early and not being able to get down the track.” Continue reading BRITTANY FORCE HOPES CHANGES BRING REPEAT SUCCES AT AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS →

COURTNEY FORCE LOOKING FOR A WIN IN PINK CAMO AT
AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS
ENNIS, Texas (Oct. 3, 2018) — Courtney Force heads into the halfway point of the NHRA Countdown to the Championship third in the Funny Car points standings, just 70 out of first place. After leading the points for 12 races Force and her Advance Auto Parts team are more than confident heading to the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at the Texas Motorplex just outside of Dallas.
Continue reading COURTNEY FORCE LOOKING FOR A WIN IN PINK CAMO AT AAA TEXAS FALLNATIONALS →

ROBERT HIGHT WINS EVENTFUL AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 23, 2018) — Robert Hight and the AAA Missouri Chevrolet Camaro Funny Car team LED the championship chase after winning the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals Sunday at Gateway Motorsports Park. Hight is now 30 points ahead of the rest of the Funny Car pack with his third win of the season and 44th of his career. It is Hight’s 10th Countdown race win and 90th Countdown round win, both are tops in the Funny Car category.

While racing Tim Wilkerson in the final round, Hight crossed the finish line first but soon after his Chevy Camaro suffered an engine explosion blasting the body off the car and made contact with the retaining wall. Hight got the win at 4.036-seconds at 276.29 mph to Wilkerson’s 4.413 at 201.91 and walked away from the wreckage to be transported to a local hospital for further evaluation. Continue reading ROBERT HIGHT WINS EVENTFUL AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS →

ROBERT HIGHT TAKES AAA MISSOURI CAMARO TO NO. 1 AT
AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 22, 2018) — While running low ET three out of the four qualifying sessions, Robert Hight and the AAA Missouri Chevrolet Camaro Funny Car team secured their third No. 1 qualifying position of the season Saturday at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals. Courtney Force landed in the No. 3 position, John Force is ninth and Brittany Force is eighth in Top Fuel.

Not only did Hight earn nine valuable bonus points for being quickest three sessions, the two-time champion was also charged with some extra confidence. Two of those runs came in the first and third sessions, the ones most similar to what the Funny Car field will see on race day. Continue reading ROBERT HIGHT TAKES AAA MISSOURI CAMARO TO NO. 1 AT AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS →

COURTNEY FORCE AND ADVANCE AUTO PARTS HOLD NO. 1 POSITION AT GATEWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 21, 2018) — Courtney Force and the Advance Auto Parts team continued their qualifying dominance Friday night at the AAA Missouri NHRA Midwest Nationals racing to the top of the Funny Car class for the provisional No. 1 qualifying position at Gateway Motorsports Park. Robert Hight is currently sixth, John Force is ninth in Funny Car while Brittany Force is 14th in Top Fuel.

In the first qualifying session, Courtney Force, currently third in the Funny Car points standings, and her Advance Auto Parts machine ran a 4.120-second pass at 309.20 mph with cylinders out. Under the lights, Force powered her Chevy Camaro to a stellar 3.881-second run at 331.04 mph to pick up three bonus points and head into Saturday qualifying at the top of the Funny Car class. Continue reading COURTNEY FORCE AND ADVANCE AUTO PARTS HOLD NO. 1 POSITION AT GATEWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK →

BRITTANY FORCE CONFIDENT IN HER ADVANCE AUTO PARTS
MONSTER ENERGY TEAM
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 19, 2018) — Racing the red, black and yellow of Advance Auto Parts again this weekend, Brittany Force knows she has her work cut out for her as she continues the defense of her Top Fuel world championship at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park. Though the task looks daunting to most, Force and her Advance Auto Parts Monster Energy team know what it takes to rise to the top.

In the midst of their 2017 championship campaign, Force and her team battled their way from the No. 6 spot to take home the title at the final race of the season. The 2018 season has been hard for the defending champions with only one win and one No. 1 qualifier, however the hard work and dedication of the team has not ceased, giving Force confidence as they move forward. Continue reading BRITTANY FORCE CONFIDENT IN HER ADVANCE AUTO PARTS MONSTER ENERGY TEAM →

COURTNEY FORCE LOOKING TO TAKE BACK POINTS LEAD AT
GATEWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 19, 2018) — Funny Car championship frontrunner Courtney Force isn’t fazed by her early exit at last weekend’s opening NHRA Countdown to the Championship Race at Maple Grove Raceway. The Sunday story didn’t speak to the weekend as a whole for the Advance Auto Parts team who earned their 11th No. 1 qualifier of the season.
The 11 top spots for the red, black and yellow Chevy Camaro is the third most in the Funny Car category behind Cruz Pedregon’s 12 in 1998 and John Force’s 13 in 1996 and is the most No. 1s by anyone since Mike Edwards’ 16 in Pro Stock in 2009 and the most by a Funny Car driver since 2000 when John Force had 11. Continue reading COURTNEY FORCE LOOKING TO TAKE BACK POINTS LEAD AT GATEWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK →

JOHN FORCE OPTIMISTIC FOR AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 19, 2018) — While John Force had a second-round exit at last week’s opening event in the NHRA playoffs, there were indications in the PEAK Coolant and Motor Oil team’s performance that the sport’s winningest driver may yet have a say in who hoists this year’s Mello Yello Champion’s trophy.

In a season that surely will rank as one of the most frustrating of his career, the 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion has been battered, bruised and berated. While a young crew anchored by Jon Schaffer and Ronnie Thompson has battled through myriad mechanical issues, Force himself has had to change his driving style to address early season car control issues. Continue reading JOHN FORCE OPTIMISTIC FOR AAA INSURANCE MIDWEST NATIONALS →

ROBERT HIGHT AND AAA FUNNY CAR ON PACE FOR ST. LOUIS WIN
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 19, 2018) — Last weekend at Maple Grove Raceway Robert Hight and the AAA Missouri Chevrolet Camaro raced to a semifinal finish and proved that Hight is ready to defend his 2017 Mello Yello NHRA Funny Car title. The Funny Car, which is bannered with Auto Club’s End Distracted Driving initiative and messaging posted the three quickest runs in each round of eliminations on Sunday running 3.941, 3.946 and 3.982 seconds, respectively. Hight was ousted in the semifinals by a rare red-light start but the veteran driver will only use that misstep as motivation. Continue reading ROBERT HIGHT AND AAA FUNNY CAR ON PACE FOR ST. LOUIS WIN →

ROBERT HIGHT AND AUTO CLUB MOVE UP THE POINTS
STANDINGS AT MAPLE GROVE
RREADING, Pa. (Sept. 16, 2018) — Robert Hight and the Auto Club of Southern California team led the four-car fleet of John Force Racing with a quarterfinal finish at the Dodge NHRA Nationals that moved them into second in the NHRA Mello Yello points standings with five races left in the Countdown to the Championship. John Force raced to the second round and found more consistency with his PEAK Coolant and Motor Oil Chevy and the Advance Auto Parts machines of Brittany and Courtney Force both had early exits at Maple Grove on Sunday. Continue reading ROBERT HIGHT AND AUTO CLUB MOVE UP THE POINTS STANDINGS AT MAPLE GROVE →

COURTNEY FORCE AND ADVANCE AUTO PARTS NO. 1 FOR ELEVENTH TIME
READING, Pa. (Sept. 15, 2018) — Courtney Force and her Advance Auto Parts team earned their 11th No. 1 qualifier of the season Saturday at the Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. The 11 top spots for the championship caliber team is the third most in the Funny Car category behind Cruz Pedregon’s 12 in 1998 and John Force’s 13 in 1996 and is the most No. 1s by anyone since Mike Edwards’ 16 in Pro Stock in 2009 and the most by a Funny Car driver since 2000 when John Force had 11. Continue reading COURTNEY FORCE AND ADVANCE AUTO PARTS NO. 1 FOR ELEVENTH TIME →

COURTNEY FORCE READY TO MAINTAIN POINTS LEAD AT MAPLE GROVE
READING, Pa. (Sept. 13, 2018) — Courtney Force enters the NHRA Dodge Nationals, the first of six playoff races, with the Mello Yello Funny Car points lead, a lead that she’s had since winning the NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta in May. Winning the regular season is an accomplishment the young Funny Car phenom does not take for granted and she’s hoping she and her Advance Auto Parts team can turn it into their first World Championship come the Auto Club Finals in November. Continue reading COURTNEY FORCE READY TO MAINTAIN POINTS LEAD AT MAPLE GROVE →

ROBERT HIGHT READY TO START BATTLE FOR FUNNY CAR CHAMPIONSHIP
READING, Pa. (Sept. 12, 2018) — After a convincing regular season that saw Robert Hight and the Automobile Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro Funny Car team finish No. 3 in the Mello Yello point standings, the defending Funny Car champion is ready to begin the fight for his third world championship. The first test will come this weekend at the Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania where Hight will be focusing on the track and also highlighting a growing problem off the track. Continue reading ROBERT HIGHT READY TO START BATTLE FOR FUNNY CAR CHAMPIONSHIP →

RED WING SHOE COMPANY JOINS JOHN FORCE RACING FOR
REMAINING SIX RACES
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (Sept. 13, 2018) — For the remainder of 2018, John Force Racing will add Red Wing Shoe Company as a sponsor to their fleet of NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series hot rods, it was announced today. With a 113-year history of creating purpose-built footwear that protects workers in some of the harshest conditions, Red Wing Shoe Company was built by years of hard work and endurance, making them a perfect partner for John Force Racing.

Today, the global company has a network of distributers and retail locations across 110 countries, an accomplishment built by years of hard work, endurance, and the promise to never compromise on quality. Continue reading RED WING SHOE COMPANY JOINS JOHN FORCE RACING FOR REMAINING SIX RACES →

BRITTANY FORCE GLAD TO START COUNTDOWN AT MAPLE GROVE RACEWAY
READING, Pa (September 12, 2018) — Brittany Force will be jumping back into her Advance Auto Parts Top Fuel dragster to begin the defense of her 2017 Mello Yello NHRA Top Fuel championship this weekend at the Dodge NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. The Countdown, NHRA’s six race playoff dash, will begin and Force will have an added level of comfort starting the playoffs at an event where she has had the most success in her young career.

In five races the Top Fuel champion has raced to three final rounds including a win last year over championship runner-up Steve Torrence. A win/loss record of 12-4 gives Force confidence and a level of comfort she can use to her advantage as she looks to reel in Torrence again for the championship. Force hasn’t had this much success at any other track beside Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park where she has three runner-up finishes. Continue reading BRITTANY FORCE GLAD TO START COUNTDOWN AT MAPLE GROVE RACEWAY →