That’s why 16-time champion John Force, who’ll turn 74 next month, keeps racing an NHRA Funny Car.
, who’s closing in on his 74th birthday May 4, knows people might not understand the depth of his passion.
But some voiced concern after Force’s PEAK Chevy Camaro darted across the track during qualifying at the Lucas Oil Winternationals two weeks ago and collided with competitor J.R. Todd’s Toyota Supra, destroying both race cars. Neither driver was injured.Force said before the start of this weekend’s NHRA Four-Wide nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that he and his team still are unsure what caused his car to cross the center line .
He said the wreck was “a combination of things. I oversteered it myself—my fault. Maybe the track was really narrow, and I learned a good lesson on that. I’m going to go out and make some runs and see where I’m at with the car. Nothing’s wrong with me. No different, other than I’m just getting older. But bottom line, after I make some runs, then I can probably give you some answers. Maybe we’ll know what went wrong. And I’m not arguing—I was part of it.
He said Todd “is a good guy” who is “just a real racer and he understands it. I understand it. We don’t like it, but we got to move ahead. It’s part of the game. How do you get around it? But nobody likes that, especially me,” Force said. “I’ve been hit before, and I’ve lost cars, and I don’t like it... But we’re going to do to our car what we need to do to help the driver.”
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