25 years old Ashley Force beat father John on Sunday in the NHRA Southern Nationals to become the first female driver to win a national Funny Car event.
Ashley had a run of 4.837 seconds at 320.36 mph at Atlanta Dragway in her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang to take a 59-point lead over Tim Wilkerson in the season standings.
John Force said after his 25-year-old daughter became the first woman ever to win an NHRA event title in a fuel coupe. "I've been racing for practically my whole life and raced all the greats -- [Don] Prudhomme, [Kenny] Bernstein, [Raymond] Beadle and more drivers than I can count, and racing my own daughter in a final round is something you can't put into words.
