FORCE TALKS SAFETY ON WIND TUNNEL

Contact: Dave  Densmore                  Elon  Werner
               Castrol Motorsports            John Force Racing, Inc.
               214-244-0008                     214-244-1184
 
 
For Immediate Release
FORCE TALKS SAFETY IN EXCLUSIVE SPEED  TV INTERVEW WITH DAVE DESPAIN
 
 BROWNSBURG, Ind. – John Force, the 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion,  will 
be featured Sunday on SPEED TV’s Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain in the first  
segment of a multi-part interview focusing on drag racing safety and the 
changes  his team has made in the wake of the death of promising young driver 
Eric Medlen  in a testing accident and a subsequent competitive crash that 
left  Force with life-threatening injuries of his own.  The show will air at 
a  special time – 10 p.m., Eastern.  
 
 The undeniable face of American drag racing for the last quarter  century, 
Force will take Despain and SPEED viewers behind the scenes of The Eric  
Medlen Project, housed in his Brownsburg racing complex and explain all that 
has  happened since Medlen lost his life in March, 2007.
 
 “At the end of the day, I am not getting any younger,�?? Force tells  
Despain during an interview session at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis,  
site of this week’s 55th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, “but I am fit to do 
 the job and I’ll probably go another three to five years.  That’s my 
plan. 
 
 “You’ve got to understand this: nobody has made more runs in a Fuel  
Funny Car than me. With all the testing going on and all this new technology and 
 things to learn, I can really accomplish a lot more than winning a 
championship  or winning a race – even though I want to do that, too.  But maybe I 
can  help build the future of cars that are safe; because if one gets 
crashed out  there, I hope I am in it so I can tell what took place and be a part 
of the  change to build better race cars.�??
 
 “John Force is well named,�?? said Despain. “He is a force of nature,  
easily the most colorful, interesting and unpredictable racer I have ever  
interviewed. The death of his driver, Eric Medlen, who he thought of as his son,  
his own near-death experience in a Funny Car crash and the simultaneous  
emergence of his daughter (Ashley Force Hood) as Funny Car racing’s brightest  
new star, creates a drama rarely seen in motor sports. This interview is a  
window into that emotional story and the racing legend at the center of  it.
�??
 
-www.johnforceracing.com-


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