John Force Racing: The Complete Guide to NHRA’s Most Decorated Team

John Force Racing is the winningest team organization in NHRA history. Founded by 16-time Funny Car champion John Force and based in Brownsburg, Indiana, the team has accumulated 24 NHRA world championships across Funny Car and Top Fuel. The organization fields four entries in the 2026 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series — one Top Fuel dragster and three Funny Cars. John Force, who retired from driving in November 2025 after more than 50 years of competition, remains team CEO.

Few organizations in all of motorsport have sustained excellence across as many decades as John Force Racing. What began as a one-car, one-driver operation became the defining team of the nitro era — one that shaped the economics, the safety standards, and the public face of professional drag racing for four decades and counting.

CompetitionPlus.com has covered John Force Racing since its earliest championship years. The profiles and coverage below draw on that archive of primary-source interviews, race-day reporting, and championship documentation stretching back more than 25 years.

The John Force Racing Organization at a Glance

John Force Racing Driver Profiles

John Force — 16-Time Funny Car Champion

The winningest driver in NHRA history. Sixteen Funny Car world championships. 157 national event victories. 269 final-round appearances. 1,460 round wins. Force announced his retirement from driving in November 2025 at age 76, ending a career that spanned more than 50 years. He remains active as team CEO. For the full story of Force’s career — from childhood polio and sleeping at the track to drag racing’s greatest dynasty — read the complete profile.

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Brittany Force — Two-Time Top Fuel Champion

The fastest driver in NHRA Top Fuel history. Two championships (2017, 2022). Nineteen career victories — a number that made her the winningest female driver in Top Fuel history, surpassing Shirley Muldowney, with her final-season win at Las Vegas in November 2025. She holds both ends of the NHRA Top Fuel national record: 3.623 seconds elapsed time (Maple Grove 2019) and 343.51 mph speed (Indianapolis 2025). Brittany stepped away from full-time competition at the end of 2025 to start a family.

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The 2026 John Force Racing Lineup

John Force Racing enters the 2026 season — the NHRA’s 75th anniversary year — with a fully rebuilt four-car roster. John Force’s retirement from driving, Brittany Force’s departure to start a family, and the exit of two-time Funny Car champion Austin Prock (along with crew chief Jimmy Prock and the entire Prock crew) to Tasca Racing prompted the most significant roster reconstruction in team history. Three of four seats are occupied by drivers new to JFR.

Josh Hart — Top Fuel Dragster (Burnyzz Speed Shop)

Hart takes the seat Brittany Force vacated, bringing two prior Top Fuel national event wins (Gainesville 2021, Carolina Nationals 2021) and experience as a team owner. He inherits crew chiefs David Grubnic and John Collins — the same combination that guided Force to her 343.51 mph world record in 2025 — giving the new pairing immediate technical depth.

Jack Beckman — Funny Car (PEAK Antifreeze and Coolant Chevrolet SS)

The 2012 Funny Car world champion returns for his second full season at JFR as the team’s most experienced active driver. His 2025 campaign produced two victories, five No. 1 qualifiers, and three final-round appearances — enough to finish third in the Funny Car points standings and establish the PEAK team as a consistent front-runner. Crew chiefs Danny Hood and Tim Fabrisi continue with Beckman, providing the lineup’s strongest continuity.

Alexis DeJoria — Funny Car (Bandero Premium Tequila Chevrolet SS)

A veteran Funny Car competitor, DeJoria joins JFR on a multi-year contract with a stated goal of becoming the sport’s first female Funny Car world champion. She is paired with crew chief Mike Neff — a former JFR driver and crew chief with deep institutional knowledge of the organization — and co-crew chief Jonnie Lindberg, a two-time Top Alcohol Funny Car champion.

Jordan Vandergriff — Funny Car (Cornwell Tools Chevrolet SS)

Vandergriff makes his full-season Funny Car debut in 2026, taking the seat vacated by Prock. The former Top Fuel competitor, who previously worked as an on-air analyst for FOX Sports, is guided by crew chief Chris Cunningham — a longtime JFR veteran — alongside co-crew chief Jason Bunker, most recently with Cruz Pedregon Racing.

The Eric Medlen Project: Safety Leadership

One of John Force Racing’s most consequential organizational contributions to the sport had nothing to do with winning. In 2007, following the death of JFR Funny Car driver Eric Medlen during a testing accident, the team established the Eric Medlen Project — a dedicated safety research initiative that led to a fundamental redesign of Funny Car chassis construction.

Working with builders and NHRA officials, JFR introduced new construction techniques and materials specifically designed to better absorb and redirect crash forces away from the driver compartment. The standards developed through that process became the NHRA benchmark for Funny Car safety and remain the foundation of chassis safety requirements today. CompetitionPlus.com covered Eric Medlen’s career and the safety evolution that followed his death extensively — that archive is part of the foundation this section draws from.

The Championship Legacy

John Force Racing’s 24 total championships span more than four decades and multiple drivers. The organization’s titles include John Force’s 16 Funny Car championships as a driver, Robert Hight’s three Funny Car titles (with JFR), Austin Prock’s back-to-back Funny Car championships (2024–25), Brittany Force’s two Top Fuel titles (2017, 2022), and Tony Pedregon’s one Funny Car title as a JFR driver. The team has also served as the competitive and developmental home for multiple drivers who went on to championship careers elsewhere.

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