John Force And Daughter Ashley Both Qualify For First Funny Car NHRA Drag Race Of The Year

Last year, A&E started a new reality series, DRIVING FORCE, about California drag racer John Force and his family, a wife and three daughters. This high strung race car driver who always appears to have had a little too much coffee to say the very least had no sons, but really wanted a child to follow him into the world of racing.

One of the issues with this family was that only one of his girls really wanted to follow their father into the the high energy and dangerous world of drag racing, with the cars sometimes exceeding 333 miles per hour in their blistering flight of horrific G-force down the quarter mile track. This nearly retina detaching acceleration is twice the speed of the fastest Navy jet at takeoff, and the G-force is a strain on the entire body.

Yesterday, John Force became about the happiest father ever when his 24 year old daughter, Ashley qualified at 15th spot on the 16 spot funny car ladder for the NHRA season's first race, The CARQUEST Parts Winternationals. Force could be seen waving his hat while riding a motorcycle back to grab his daughter and pick her up off the ground, shouting, "That's my baby". How many children wouldn't like to make their parents that proud.