Courtney Force Quits Racing

Courtney Force announced that the will not be racing this year.
Story here:
https://www.nhra.com/news/2019/courtney-force-steps-away

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Looks like nhra site is acting goofy.

Try this one

https://sports.yahoo.com/nhra-star-courtney-force-steps-142808188.html

That's weird, I just clicked on the nhra link and it worked.

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-raci...-driving-duties

She says she's coming back but I doubt it. Ashley Force is still not back. I'm sure the sponsors who bought the next generation crap are thrilled.

They need to throw Stevie Fast Jackson in there and stir things up!

Bring back Scotty Cannon!

Thanks for the link
I wonder if they lost the sponsorships or exactly what caused her to stop driving
Maybe graham is jealous of her going faster than him

Baby-on-Board Soon?? Great racer, she brought a lot of female fans into drag racing the last several years.

If I had to guess she'll have another announcement in 9 months or less...

My first thought too.

When you figure out how a woman thinks or why they do the things they do, you let us know.

Rumor is Monster is gone from the dragster and Advance is moving over there. Austin Prock may get the Funny Car ride. Or they may put Denso on one of them. Or they may park it. Who knows?

It's my fault. John is Pissed, I even offered to name the boy John....

There is no doubt that nitro racing is a very dangerous business. Maybe her self preservation instincts kicked in, maybe looked into her future and wants to make sure she has a future, and kids and all that stuff.

WOW! Just WOW!

Rather see her Bro in law step away.

Just changing rings at the circus...

I would imagine Rahal had something to do with this...between two different racing series not much time together. Think all the Force girls will be done within another year...with Alan Johnson leaving Brittany’s top fuel car she’ll have another down year too. DSR has prevailed in their death lock.

I agree with others that Mr. and Mrs Rahal are probably planning on starting a family.

Where did you see that Alan Johnson is leaving Force? I have seen some rumors that David Grubnic would be working on the dragster but that was quite a while ago and no announcements yet.

My friend did work on Monster team, they lost that sponsor ..the whole crew left , went to work for Mike Salinas

https://www.nhra.com/drivers/mike-salinas/19291

Looks like this just came out today. No mention as to who will be the Crew Chief...

http://www.johnforceracing.com/brittany-force-to-drive-advance-auto-parts-top-fuel-dragster/

Grubnic and crew are supposed to be in the building with an announcement being held up by legal snafus.

Not so sure. The Grubnic tuned car finished well ahead of the JFR dragster.

With a much smaller budget I might add.

Winter on MOPARTS and a circus in the circus!!!

If true I wonder where this will leave Millican?

This is he Alan Johnson announcement....

https://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/husen-aj-to-tune-mike-salinas-in-2019

so now who's going to sandbag for the team member who leads in points???

Oh No ! National Dragster might have to finally realize theres more to racing than the Force family!

It was announced quite a while ago that Mike Kobler would be Millican's crew chief.

Really more about Brian Husen than Alan Johnson. Johnson was a consultant for both JFR and Salinas last year.

However if you read between the lines it does give the impression that Johnson is out also. He certainly would not be needed if Grubnec is working for JFR as rumored.

The Stringer team was absorbed by a conglomerate that kept Millican, promptly kicked out Grubnick and the crew that got them to 3rd in points with a single car team on a budget, and hired Mike Kloeber, who while having some past success, hadn't worked in NHRA since 2014.

It's called "Silly Season" for a reason.

Maybe dad and father-in-law gave her enough $$$$ to play with the boys in Indy Car.

This was finally announced at the JFR site this morning:

"John Force Racing is proud to announce the addition of David Grubnic as the crew chief of 2017 Top Fuel world champion Brittany Force’s Advance Auto Parts dragster."

Full announcement on all four teams:
http://www.johnforceracing.com/john-force-racing-announces-driver-and-crew-chief-lineup-for-2019/

Maybe had to give Prock's son a ride in order to keep him?

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-raci...n-of-change-jfr

JF says his company is set up to run 4 teams. He only has 1 kid who still wants to drive. And he won't be driving much longer. Hight will remain. I believe developing Prock's son was part of the deal with Jimmy Prock, and he likes to keep everything in the family. Just as he did with the Medlins.

Bun in the oven, which one of you is taking the seat in the FC?...