News Update:
On Sunday September 23, NHRA legend John Force was injured in a serious wreck during the O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals being raced in Ennis Texas. Team spokesman Elon Werner said that Force broke his left ankle and his left wrist and suffered a severe abrasion to his right knee.

John Force, a 14-time NHRA champion, was airlifted to a hospital in Dallas. Force was conscious and alert after the accident, and is expected to make a full recovery.

Racing background:
The most prolific winner in drag racing history with 122 NHRA tour victories and 14 series championships, all in a series of Castrol GTX-sponsored hybrids called "Funny Cars" that are capable of zero-to-330 mile-an-hour acceleration in just 4.6 seconds. The reigning champion, he is trying to extend to 21 the number of consecutive seasons in which he has won at least one NHRA race. He entered the 2007 season, his 30th on the tour, having qualified for 392 consecutive races dating back to the start of the 1988 season.

Notable: Was named Driver of the Year for all of American motor racing in 1996; is a 14-time member of the Auto Racing All-America Team selected by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association; two years ago, in London, accepted the John Bolster Award for lifetime achievement in racing from the editors of AutoSport Magazine, the acknowledged "bible" of Formula 1 racing.

John Force is the most prolific winner and, arguably, the most recognizable name in professional drag racing history. The only driver in NHRA history with triple digit wins, the one-time truck driver has won almost as many fans with his mouth as with his motor. The king of the quarter mile, he also is the king of the quip. "I just traded one trailer park for another," he has said, comparing his upbringing in a small trailer park in Bell Gardens, Calif., to his current status as a road warrior whose four Funny Car teams virtually live their lives out of nine 18-wheel transporters and a luxury bus bigger than the trailer house in which his parents raised him, three brothers and a sister. The consummate blue collar hero, Force spent his first 10 seasons living hand to mouth from one race to the next. He was nine times a runner-up before winning for the very first time in 1987. He’s been winning ever since.