NHRA has just announced a national teleconference for tomorrow, Tuesday, April 10th featuring 14-time champ John Force, during which the sport’s most popular competitor will discuss his team’s plan for this coming weekend’s Summitracing.com Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Rumors continue to swirl regarding what might be announced tomorrow, including one story reportedly emanating from someone alleged to have inside information about JFR that suggests Force will have daughters Courtney and Brittany sit out Super Comp racing in Las Vegas.  Remember, Brittany had an “incident” during pre-season testing at The Strip, and that could be playing a role in this decision, if it’s true.  Repeated calls to JFR personnel for confirmation or denial have not been returned.  We will have a complete report by no later than 3:00 PM Eastern time tomorrow.  Stay tuned.

UPDATED: Here are a few things we’re hearing from very credible  sources.  First, as late as this past weekend Ashely Force was  planning on being in Las Vegas competing in Funny Car, but that could  possibly change.  Her sisters, Brittany and Courtney, were also planning on competing in Super Comp, but reliable sources have  confirmed that the two mechanics who “ran” that portion of JFR are  gone, but we don’t yet know under what circumstances they left the  team.  A friend of Force’s is reportedly on tap to drive the Super Comp rig to The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Murf McKinney has  reportedly made some major changes to Force’s Funny Cars, with one of  those changes said to be a widening of the roll cages by about 4- inches near the top, but this has not been confirmed.  Austin Coil  will reportedly be a part of the teleconference specifically to  outline the changes that have been made to the cars.  Other sources  report that Force is slated to make a run on Thursday at Las Vegas in order to check out the changes to the car, and if true that would be  an unprecedented situation, as to our recollection NHRA has never  allowed a professional competitor an additional run outside of the  four regular qualifying sessions.  Two prominent PRO members have told Torco’s Competitionplus.com about the plans for the Thursday  run, but that’s yet another situation we can’t yet confirm from JFR.   We’ll have a complete report on the teleconference within minutes of  its conclusion this afternoon, which should be about 3 PM Eastern time