15x NHRA Funny Car World Champion, John Force, will return to television with the revival of his TV show, Driving Force. The TV show first premiered on A&E in 2006 and ran until 2007. The show centered around the Force family and their life on and off the racetrack. It featured everything from the ups and downs of the family business to the annual family vacation in Lake Tahoe. The series came to a halt after the end of the second season, around the time John Force Racing driver, Eric Medlen, passed away after a tragic testing accident in Gainesville, Florida.
It was announced yesterday at a John Force Racing press conference that they were bringing the show back to life, however it will arrive under a new name. This time the show will focus mainly on John's two youngest daughters, Top Fuel driver, Brittany and Funny Car driver, Courtney. John of course will be featured in the show as will the entire team, but his girls will have the spotlight. John Force Racing is undecided on the network that will air their show or when it will premiere. John Force Racing will team up with JMI, Octagon, and Rogers & Cowan in order to promote themselves in hopes of grabbing the attention of new potential sponsors.
Ford and Castrol broke the news last month that they would be departing from John Force Racing at the end of the 2014 season. The news has left John Force Racing scrambling to find a sponsor to pick up the pieces left by Castrol, whom he has had a 29 year run, and Ford who has backed the team for the past 16 years. Given the success and popularity of the team finding new sponsors and a chassis manufacturer shouldn't be too difficult, but if things don't work out well, John Force may end up racing a Top Fuel Dragster for the first time in his career. Only time will tell for the most popular team in NHRA drag racing.
-Dallas Hollins
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