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April 28, 2008
Ashley Force Beats Out Pops, Becomes First Female Funny-Car Champ
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Up-and-coming drag-racing star Ashley Force made history yesterday by becoming the first woman to win a national Funny Car event, beating her own dad, racing legend John Force, at the NHRA Southern Nationals in Atlanta. She posted a quarter-mile time of 4.837 sec at 320.36 mph. As the guys on Sirius NASCAR radio’s Backstretch pointed out, John Force (like Dale Earnhardt Sr.) is an ultra-competitive racer and not exaclty the type to hand his own kid the win—so Ashely had to battle as hard as anyone for that victory. Congrats all around—the Force family is clearly shaping up to be a racing dynasty to be reckoned with.
Comments
Jack
Apr 29, 2008 at 1:13 pm
So in the past two weeks, a woman has won an Indy race and now an NHRA event. Looks like Nascar is a little behind the eight-ball on this one. Are there any women running in the Busch Series? I know Mike Wallace’s daughter runs in the Truck Series.
Austin
Apr 28, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I will add:
and kicking ass.
Austin
Apr 28, 2008 at 11:11 pm
This is great to see. I’m glad we are getting more women into motorsports.
Evan
Apr 28, 2008 at 9:49 pm
This is a great video. Looks like Dad blew it out his ass on this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JWrHX4SXXlA
Funny the interview of her at the end, that poor hat!