TheHOTTEST2018
“... even if it
takes a while to
get there, I want
to improve on
things. I know
it’s going to be
a process. Some
weekends you
kill it, some
weekends you
screw up.”
B
rittany Force has the
most famous last name in drag
racing and a major, big-time
sponsor in Monster Energy on
the side of her Top Fuel drag-
ster. But make no mistake, she
has never been afraid to do
things her way.
As recently as a decade ago, she had no inten-
tions of racing professionally. She was the last
of the Force sisters to make the jump up to the
NHRA professional series. Again, it was on her
terms and with her goals in mind, and in an area
her iconic family had never ventured. Top Fuel
became her baby and succeeding in Top Fuel
became her passion.
The uncharted waters have never been easy, but
Force has more than made it work. In winning at
Pomona last November, she clinched a Top Fuel
world championship in the process, becoming the
first female to win in the class since 1982 and the
first Force to win in Top Fuel. It was very much
a storybook tale, but only because Force was the
one with the pen.
“I’ve always been very independent,” Force says.
“I’m confident being on my own. We’re all very
close as a family, but racing in Top Fuel is some-
thing I wanted to do. I knew it would not easy and
it was going to be a challenge. It’s taken years, but
there have been no thoughts in my mind I was
going to quit. I loved it and I love being out there.
You make mistakes, but you learn from them.”
Force is quick to point out that there are still
plenty of mistakes to fix as 2018 opens, but to
March 2018
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