Not a Full Force Weekend
It was a tough weekend to be a JFR driver at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona.
It was a tough weekend to be a JFR driver at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona.
The NHRA Mello Yello season kicks off with strong passes and a heart-stopping moment as John Force’s Funny Car crashes.
NHRA Senior Vice President of Racing Operations, and industry legend, Graham Light is set to retire at the end of the 54th Auto Club finals this season.
When Bryan Herta ended his career as a professional racecar driver, he needed to stay involved in the sport. There is no cure for racing, after all.
When John Force Entertainment, led by daughter No. 2 and company president Ashley Force Hood, also an accomplished Funny Car competitor and winner, began filming the team early in the 24-race 2017 season, she had no idea she and her team would be chronicling the path to a pair of world championships.
Austin Cindric, just 19 years old, will race the entire 33-contest NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) in 2018, working with two different organizations, both winning enterprises.
The first Monday of February, an announcement heralded a new partnership for the IndyCar series: Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan will compete in the series with four-time champion Sebastien Bourdais, securing primary sponsorship from leading pavement sealer company SealMaster.
Mopar has announced Pritchett will contest all of NHRA’s SAM Tech Factory Stock Showdown seven races this year, in addition to her duties behind the wheel of DSR’s Top Fuel dragster.
With a period of adjustment behind him, Todd takes on the added chore this year of helping his friend and teammate, Shawn Langdon, make the same adjustments he did last year.
Following the deaths of INDYCAR standout Justin Wilson and Formula One racer Jules Bianchi, the offered solutions to the once-in-a-lifetime issue were many and varied. F1 is going with a halo device over the cockpit; INDYCAR is checking out a large windscreen next week at ISM Raceway.