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FORCE SATISFIED WITH SAFETY CHANGES
After finally generating tire shake on the last of three test runs Wednesday in his Castrol GTX High Mileage Ford Mustang, 14-time NHRA Funny Car Champion John Force declared his race team ready to compete in this week’s eighth annual SummitRacing.com Nationals.
Force made runs of 200, 300 and 400 feet primarily to check roll cage clearances of newly installed padding and determine the drive-ability of the Mustang after changes were made by chassis builder Murf McKinney.
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“The first run, I had a little blurred vision so we went back and made some adjustments to the padding in the cockpit area,” Force said. “On the second run, one of the very first times in my career, my vision wasn’t blurred when I left the line. That was really impressive to me."
“On the last run, I made a little longer burnout, about three-quarter track, and I whipped the wheel back and forth, not just once, but three or four times, to get some side-to-side motion and, bottom line, I felt like a baby in a crib,” said the 122-time tour winner.
“It didn’t even try to blur my vision so I’m approving these changes for my drivers, my daughters Ashley, Brittany and Courtney and my son-in-law, Robert Hight. It felt really good out there.” (Linda Brock photo)[4/12/2007]
