John Force is a 14 time NHRA Funny Car Champion. His 4 car team is considered the elite among the top teams. Easily the most colorful personality in drag racing, Force will miss the show at Indy. The U.S. Nationals is the ‘Super Bowl’ of the NHRA schedule.
Despite being a former champion, John Force was bumped out of the field of 16 that will compete for the funny car crown on Monday.
“I was given every opportunity to get to race in the greatest show on earth,” Force said after failing to make it down the track on his final run. “I feel like I let the fans down and that’s what hurts the most.”
“I ain’t dead yet,” said Force, who had already clinched his spot in the NHRA’s six-race Countdown to One championship series that begins with the Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway @ Concord on Sept. 11-14. “We’ll be there at that new place out East … where is it? … Charlotte.”
Thats the way it works in the NHRA. You are either fast enough to make the field of 16 in the professional catagories, or you go home. No past champion provisionals, nobodys ‘locked in’ no matter how good their season.
If you are thinking you have read this post before, you have a good memory and you are a regular reader. John Force missed the field last year for the same event. Grumpy was so startled by it, it had to be posted.
Hmm, DeJa Vue all over again.
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