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NHRA LEVIES FINE AGAINST JOHN FORCE
GLENDORA, Calif. (Sept. 10, 2009) – Funny Car racer John Force has been fined $10,000 by the NHRA for an incident involving physical contact with an NHRA official on Monday, Sept. 7 during the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis.

Videotape from the event showed Force making physical contact with an NHRA official at the top end of the race track during a confrontation with fellow Funny Car driver Tony Pedregon. Such physical contact violates the Participant Conduct policy as stated in the 2009 NHRA Rulebook. The fine, which can be appealed by Force, must be paid in full prior to participation at any future NHRA event.

Headquartered in Glendora, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. It presents 24 national events through its NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. NHRA has 80,000 members and 140 member tracks. The NHRA-sanctioned sportsman and bracket racing series provide competition opportunities for drivers of all levels. The NHRA develops the stars of tomorrow by offering the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, NHRA Summit Racing Series and the NHRA Drags: Street Legal Style presented by AAA. NHRA also offers the Jr. Drag Racing League for youth ages 8 to 17.

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Fining John Force $10,000 is like fining me $10.00. In between the Pros "diving" for team members to get into the countdown and Sportsman "diving" to save their precious, under-rated HP factors, Indy should be re-named the National Diving Championships. Drag racing is NOT about taking a dive!

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ESPN should have to pay for it, those people at ESPN are trying to stir up **** so they have something to report on the show. That's why I have not watched Drag Racing on the TV since 1999. Just not anywhere close to being there and way to much politics play who is on there and gets interviewed.

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Very good point Joe, The first thing they told him when he got out of the car was Hey John, Pedregon
says that you are cheating and you could see him start to Boil! They did not even talk to Robert who
had just beat John is all they were worried about was if he took a dive. DUHHH he just changed drivers
to get Robert into the count down do you think he would take him out first chance. I belive this whole points
structure change and the drama reality show was a very big part of ESPN to draw the viewers..
It has become the WWF of drag racing. It really surprised me when Dunn kept going on and on and on
about it how the whole thing stinks!! Your right Dunn the whole damn program stinks and its too Bad.
Deleted from my TVO...from now on.

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The way Force has been acting on TV lately, it's about time they (NHRA)ask him to take a drug test..... WJ

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espn stirred the pot and nhra created the monster with the count down and allowing 4 car teams,limit this to 2 car teams and take away the count down it wouldn't happen.force did what he did because the rules allowed him the wiggle to do this.

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$10??

I think it is more like $1.00,actually 99 CENTS!

It is ashame that their TV ratings must be getting so low that they have to resort to WWE stuff.

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I can't believe anybody on here even watches that sh#t! ESPN FIND A BETTER SHOW!

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ESPN does not show racing, and does not do much..if anything, to further the sport. The rain delays could have allowed sportsman coverage, and the coverage at previous 2009 events have been terrible. Lots of 'phone interviews', commentary, graphics.....sorry. I don't mean to hijack the thread, but, the espn/NHRA tandem of race presentation is horrible. The drama they were able to drag up, at least, prevented the cutaway to frisbee golf.... People want to see racing, just not in the form being presented.