Courtney Force capped a superb weekend Sunday at the Southern Nationals.

Force, who qualified No.1, knocked out the competition culminating with a win over Matt Hagan in the finals at Atlanta Dragway.

The second-generation Funny Car competitor clocked a 4.046-second elapsed time at 313.73 mph to oust Hagan’s 4.148-second 291.13 lap.

This was Force’s second win of the year in her Advance Auto Parts Chevy Camaro as she also won in Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 25 from the No. 1 qualifying spot. Sunday, Force beat Jeff Diehl, Tim Wilkerson, Cruz Pedregon and then Hagan.

“We had a great race car all day long and every single guy on our Advance Auto Parts team did a phenomenal job,” Force said. “From getting the No. 1 qualifying spot (Saturday) in our final qualifying run and then to have some consistent runs. We lost lane choice in second round and the semis and we were dropping holes after we were going over a bump down there, we called it our ski jump over in the left lane. We managed to get it fixed up and got it to stop dropping holes and ended up getting lane choice against Hagan. It was a tough match up any time you have to go up against a DSR car, but our Advance Auto Parts boys they got it done and we ended up turning on the win light and it feels good to be back in the winner’s circle.”

This was Force’s 10th nitro Funny Car national event victory, the most by any female in NHRA history and her first at Atlanta. Force is first in the season points – eight points in front of Jack Beckman.

“It is great to be able out here in hot Atlanta and getting a win at the track (Atlanta Dragway) that my sister, Ashley got her first win at (in 2008), I think that’s pretty cool,” Force said. “All day long I thought it would be so cool to get a win here especially because Ashley is here with us. She doesn’t come to a ton of races, so I was real excited that she could be her and celebrate with us in the winner’s circle.  Her and Brittany and my husband, Graham (Rahal) and my dad and everybody.”

Courtney acknowledged her team’s 4.038-second lap in the left lane in her semifinal win over Pedregon gave her team a jolt.

“It was definitely a struggle without it spinning or dropping a hole in that left lane,” she said. “But, I have (crew chiefs) Brian Corradi and Dan Hood on my team and it feels good to go up there as a driver with a lot of confidence knowing those guys are tuning the race car and they made it happen. They do a great job working together.”