John Harold Force is an American NHRA drag racer. He is a 16-time NHRA and 1-time AHRA Funny Car champion driver and a 22-time champion car owner. Force owns and drives for John Force Racing. He is one of the most dominant drag racers in the sport with 155 career victories.
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On November 22, 1968, John Force married Lana Bonee.
Who is John Force’s wife?
The couple hit the road in the late 1970s. John did match and division races at the beginning with Laurie and a small crew of friends who’d mostly work for free. Money was so tight they’d sometimes pool change to buy bologna sandwiches. The couple married in 1981 and, by then, John was trying to make it on the NHRA tour.
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“When we started out, John was a terrible driver,” Laurie says. “We had every junk part you could imagine. If there were 17 cars, then we probably wouldn’t qualify [for a 16-car field]. I kept thinking maybe we should give this up and try something else. But he wasn’t having it. This was his dream and what he wanted to do.”
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