A month after the drag racing world watched in horror as 17-time Funny Car champion John Force exploded an engine and violently impacted the retaining walls at Virginia Motorsports Park, he is going home. 

John Force Racing confirmed today that Force was discharged Tuesday from Barrow Neurological Institute, where he was undergoing rehab for a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury).

Force will continue to work with therapists specializing in such injuries, and it will now be outpatient in California.

“He finally gets to sleep in his own bed,” said daughter Ashley Hood, who, with sisters Brittany, Courtney, and Adria and mother Laurie, maintained a constant presence through the Hall of Fame driver and car owner’s hospitalizations in Virginia and Arizona.  

The next phase in the recovery process will be outpatient speech, as well as OTPT (Occupational and Physical Therapy), to address lingering short-term memory and cognitive issues.