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Brittany Force Announces Exit From Full-Time NHRA Racing After 2025
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Highlights
- Brittany Force to retire from full-time racing after 2025 season
- Force aims to focus on starting a family with husband Bobby
- Two-time NHRA Top Fuel champion with 18 career victories
- Holds NHRA records for quickest run and fastest Top Fuel speed
- Currently fifth in points, aiming to finish 2025 season strong
- John Force Racing team supports Brittany’s decision to step away
Brittany Force will step away from full-time competition after the 2025 NHRA season, confirming the decision at Maple Grove Raceway in Mohnton, Pennsylvania.
The two-time Top Fuel champion cites a desire to start a family with husband Bobby after 13 committed years at the elite level.
She thanked NHRA, fans, sponsors, and John Force Racing, highlighting Monster Energy, HendrickCars, Chevrolet, Cornwell Tools, PEAK, and Graham Rahal Performance for their sustained backing.
Force’s pathway ran through Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, then Top Alcohol Dragster, where she logged three runner-up finishes in 19 starts.
She moved into Top Fuel in 2013, earned rookie-of-the-year honors, and took a maiden win at the 2016 Gatornationals.
Her 2017 title made her the first woman since Shirley Muldowney in 1982 to win the Top Fuel championship, with a second crown following in 2022.
Force is a two-time Top Fuel champion who reshaped the class’s performance ceiling.
The broader career ledger is substantial: 18 victories, 39 final-round appearances, and 56 No. 1 qualifiers across a consistent front-running spell.
Team owner John Force praised her record-setting output and backed her family-first decision, echoed by mother Laurie and her sisters. JFR teammates Austin Prock and Jack Beckman support the end-of-season push.
Force holds the class benchmarks for outright performance. She clocked the quickest run, 3.623 seconds, at Maple Grove in 2019.
She set the fastest speed at 343.51 mph on September 1, 2025, at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, and owns nine of the ten fastest runs recorded.
Quickest run: 3.623s at Maple Grove. Fastest speed: 343.51 mph at Indianapolis.
The 2025 campaign remains live. Force sits fifth in points, 56 behind the leader heading into Reading, with a win at Epping and a runner-up in Seattle.
She has four No. 1 qualifiers and has reset the national speed record three times this season, underlining competitive momentum.
Force trails the points lead by 56 and targets a strong finish to the 2025 season.
While stepping out of the cockpit after 2025, she leaves the door open to future opportunities. For now, the focus is on execution and maximizing JFR’s title challenge.
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