Force has a wife by the name Laurie and three children; Ashley, Courtney and Brittany. The family was featured in the A & E auto-show “Driving Force”. In 2008 Force was honored in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
John Force’s Net Worth?
John Force is the one of the most prominent identity of the American drag racer who has the influence as the Funny Car driver and car owner and he earns 20 million dollars. John Force is a leading example, he has NHRA title as a driver 16 times and as the car owner 21 times. He also owns John Force Racing and John Force Father and Son Racing and has been a driver for both of them.
Early Life
John Force was raised by his parents, Harold and Betty Ruth Force in Bell Gardens, California and was born on May 4, 1949. In his childhood, he struggled much as he had to live in migrant farms and trailer parks and later suffer from polio, which he later recovered from.
He has six children and played the football at the high school level and then at the community college level for Cerritos College. He got aligned to racing from childhood and by the time he was 21 years, he had already joined racing.
Career
Force competed for the first time in a funny car in 1971 using the car Night Stalker Mustang built by Jack Chrisman. He also undertaking many other forms of race car during the early of his career such as; Corvette, Monza and Oldsmobile Cutlass.
He remained with the Cutlass from the 1980s up to the player’s final season of the 1993/1994 footballing year. Later he moved to Ford for some time longer, but he came back to Chevrolet again.
In 2005 Force competed in five contests and was ranked third in the championship. The next year he emerged winner of the 14th NHRA World Funny Car Championship. The following year was off to a bad start as he crashed in Ennis Texas at the beginning of the year.
But he was able to come back, and later on seized the O’Reilly NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. In September of 2007, Force was injured in a crash, and Phil Burkart Jr. had to replace him for the rest of the 2007 season. Force peaked in the mid-2000s but struggled in the late 2000s where he ranked seventh overall in 2008 and ninth overall in 2009.
Though his daughter Ashley finished second overall. During the 2010 season Force was marking a Silver Anniversary as a sponsor and 34 years in the NHRA. The driver started the season by triumphing in the season-opening California Auto Club Finals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.
Racing has also moved on to being a family affair as all the three daughters have been involved and raced. The Force reached his 150 NHRA victories in 2019 during the course of the Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals.
