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Brittany Force
American NHRA drag racer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brittany Leighton Force (born July 8, 1986) is an American NHRA drag racer and 2-time NHRA Drag Racing Series Top Fuel dragster champion. She is the daughter of drag racer John Force and the sister of fellow racers Courtney Force and Ashley Force Hood.
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Force became an NHRA drag racer in 2013, driving a Top Fuel dragster, the first John Force Racing driver to compete in that class.[2] She is sponsored by Monster Energy.[3] In 2016, she became the first woman to win the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals.[4] On May 20, 2016, she set a new NHRA top fuel drag racing record with a run of 3.676 seconds over 1,000 feet at Heartland Park Topeka, Kansas.[5]
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In 2017, Force became the second woman in history to win a Top Fuel Championship, after Shirley Muldowney in 1982, clinching the title in the quarterfinals of the final race of the season before going on to win the event. Force won 4 races for the year, the most in a single season in her career, including 3 in the Countdown to the Championship.[6]
In 2019, Force became the first woman driver to be the Number 1 qualifier in Top Fuel at the U.S. Nationals.[7]
On Oct 2, 2022, Force set the national record with fastest top fuel run in history at 338.17 mph[8] at the NHRA Midwest Nationals. Brittany won the 2022 NHRA TopFuel championship. Brittany reset the speed record to 338.94mph, she also has set the E.T. record at 3.623 seconds. Brittany has 16 career NHRA wins.[9]
On July 20, 2025, she broke her own speed record with a 341.59 mph pass at the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Kent, Washington. [10]
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Force attended California State University, Fullerton, where she received a bachelor's degree in English and a teaching credential.[11]
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