The Game Druid

Do u know who’s been reeeeaaaallly hot these days???!! It’s Ashley Force!! Not only is she hot, she’s FAST too..(not that kind of way you dung beetle!!)..anyway, after graduating from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, she spent two seasons in the entry-level Super Comp class and three more in Top Alcohol Dragster before becoming just the 10th woman in NHRA history to earn a license to compete in the Funny Car division. In Top Alcohol, she won five NHRA national events including the biggest event in the sport, the 2004 U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis, Ind.

And get this : Ashley was a Top 10 finisher in national points in each of her three seasons in Top Alcohol Dragster. When she won the 2004 World Finals at Pomona, Calif., she shared the winners’ circle with her dad as the first father-and-daughter champions in the history of the NHRA series. Now, she has moved up to race against her father at the wheel of one of the most challenging vehicles on the planet, an 8,000 horsepower Funny Car.

Ashley is trying to become the first woman to advance to the final round in the Funny Car division, the first woman to win a race, the first to qualify No. 1 and the first to earn a Top 10 finish. Despite the fact that she chose “auto shop” and “welding” as two of her elective courses in high school, Ashley’s interest in the “family business” came as a compete shock to her father, 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force. Nevertheless, three years after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State-Fullerton, the former high school cheerleader is being hailed as a future star of the NHRA series and a possible successor to her father.

Despite the demands of her racing career, Ashley still finds time to indulge her passion for movie-making. Among her productions was “The Bi-Polar Express,” a takeoff on Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in which her father was cast as Ebenezer Scrooge.

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