Sixteen-time National Hot Rod Association champion John Force is in rehab two weeks after the Southern California drag racing legend from Bell Gardens suffered…
John Force, the 75-year-old drag racing legend who was born in Bell Gardens and lives in Yorba Linda, is in rehab two weeks after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 300-mph crash.Southern California drag racing legend John Force has started rehab after more than 15 days in a Virginia hospital for treatment of a brain injury suffered in a frightening 300-mph crash.
The 75-year-old Force, who was born in Bell Gardens and lives in Yorba Linda, suffered a traumatic brain injury June 23 in the crash on his first-round run in Funny Car eliminations at the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. After his, the car crossed the strip's centerline and slammed into the driver's side left concrete guard wall. The car then careened back across the track and hit the other wall.
Force, who won a record 157th NHRA race last month in New Hampshire, was seriously injured in 2007 at age 58 in another crash in Ennis, Texas.began in 1978. In 1990 Force won his first NHRA title, one of 10 from 1990 to 2000. Force claimed 10 Funny Car titles in a row from 1993 to 2002. Daughter Brittany Force, 37, is a two-time NHRA Drag Racing Series Top Fuel dragster champion. Daughters Courtney Fallon Force-Rahal and Ashley Corinne Force Hood also competed in the NHRA Funny Car series.
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