Two-time NHRA Top Fuel champion Brittany Force is back.
John Force Racing announced today that Brittany Force will drive her Flav-R-Pac Chevrolet Top Fuel Dragster at this weekend’s NHRA Northwest Nationals at Kent, Washington.
The 38-year-old Force sat out the most recent race weekend in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series at Norwalk, Ohio, to be with her dad, injured Funny Car legend John Force.
John Force, meanwhile, continues to recover from a traumatic brain injury suffered when his Funny Car exploded and crashed into both walls at the NHRA event in Virginia on June 23. The team reports that he is “responding positively to treatment” at an undisclosed rehabilitation facility.
Brittany Force enters the Northwest Nationals holding down the 10th and final qualifying sport for the NHRA’s Countdown to the Championship Playoffs. She’s just 50 points clear of Josh Hart for that final spot.
KENT, Wash. (AP) — Brittany Force will return to her Top Fuel dragster this week in Seattle, her first time competing since her father John’s horrific accident in Virginia last month.
John Force Racing said this week that with 16-time NHRA champion John Force “responding positively to treatment” for the traumatic brain injury he suffered on June 23, daughter Brittany will race at the Northwest Nationals outside of Seattle this weekend.
John Force’s accident took place at the Virginia Nationals as his car suffered a catastrophic engine explosion at the finish line and collided several times with the track’s barriers.
He was taken to an intensive care facility nearby with his family, including Brittany, on hand for treatment.
Force was moved to a rehab facility in California to continue his recovery.
“It has been a roller coaster of emotions for our family since Richmond,” Brittany said in a statement. “But my dad has made great progress and we are all so proud of him.”
Brittany Force missed the most recent competition last month at Norwalk, Ohio. A year ago, she set the speed mark of 334.73 mph at Pacific Raceway.
