{"id":8681,"date":"2014-10-28T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2014-11-25T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:44:12","slug":"john-force-still-in-the-fight-even-without-crew-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/john-force-still-in-the-fight-even-without-crew-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"John Force Still in the Fight, Even Without Crew Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8684\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/john-force-still-in-the-fight-even-without-crew-chief\/john-force-racing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1391963326&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"John Force Racing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing-300x164.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8684\" alt=\"John Force Racing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Andrew Chen<\/p>\n<p>With two races left in the NHRA Countdown, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2014\/02\/07\/five-questions-with-john-force\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Force<\/a> and his crew chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2014\/10\/22\/john-force-accepts-crew-chief-jimmy-procks-resignation-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Prock<\/a> have parted ways, and everyone is left wondering how the 16-time champion is going to stay competitive.<\/p>\n<p>But for Force, it was never really about championships. He races from the heart and he does it because he loves it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not guaranteeing we&#8217;re going to win a championship, but that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s all about to me. To me, it&#8217;s about being with people that fight the fight every day,&#8221; said Force, who currently sits in second place. &#8220;I&#8217;m not racing for this championship. I&#8217;m racing for this championship for the next 20 years, and right now I&#8217;ve got to start building a team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Force promises he won&#8217;t be pulling any resources from his other teams, especially with his daughter Courtney only 72 points behind current Funny Car leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2014\/10\/23\/matt-hagan-racing-for-second-nhra-funny-car-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Hagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always had an A, B and C plan for everything in life,&#8221; said Force when asked about who would tune his car in Las Vegas and Pomona. &#8220;And I built my teams with an A plan, a backup plan, and the C plan isn&#8217;t pretty; that&#8217;s me tuning. But you&#8217;d get a heck of a show\u2014I&#8217;d be on fire every week. That&#8217;d make for good TV!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Force Racing still has his &#8220;brain trust&#8221; in tact, with the Auto Club team&#8217;s Mike Neff leading the charge and President of JFR, Robert Hight, right by his side. They&#8217;re ready to come out swinging in Las Vegas and hopefully lady luck will be on their side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With two races left in the NHRA Countdown, John Force and his crew chief Jimmy Prock have parted ways, and everyone is left wondering how the 16-time champion is going to stay competitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3399],"tags":[554,1438,423,1441,440],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-nhra","tag-2014-nhra-mello-yello-drag-racing-series","tag-jimmy-prock","tag-john-force-racing","tag-mike-neff","tag-robert-hight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/John-Force-Racing.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2g1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}