Racing background:
Like all the Force women, Courtney earned her competition driver’s license after graduating from Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School in 2004. She is entering her second full competitive season in a 180 mile-an-hour BrandSource-sponsored Super Comp dragster. She won five rounds of racing and was one of the last five drivers in competition at the 2006 Spring Nationals at Houston, Texas.

Notable: Statuesque, like her mother Laurie, Courtney is the youngest of drag racing champion John Force's four daughters. She also is the one Force always believed was most likely to follow him into the family business. Yet, like her older sisters, Courtney isn't obsessive about driving her race car and that has become a subject of contention between father and mother.

"Their mother has tried to give them balance in their live; something I’ve never had," Force said. "She tells them that there's more to life than just drag racing and I tell them that if they want to be champions, they have to live racing, night and day. They should sleep in their race cars; get to know them."

Courtney demonstrated the balance her mother has sought when, after qualifying No. 1 at a divisional race in Las Vegas during her first season, she withdrew from competition and bypassed Sunday eliminations to return to California for a high school dance.

A former high school cheerleader, Courtney followed sister Ashley’s path and took an auto shop course as one of her electives. Although she may one day wind up in one of her dad's 330 mile-an-hour Funny Cars, her mother has made it clear that such a goal is contingent upon her earning a college degree.