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John Force’s bad luck continued Saturday during qualifying for the NHRA Route 66 Nationals.

During a qualifying run alongside daughter Courtney, Force’s Funny Car appeared to be smoking its tires when suddenly it jumped to the right and into the outside wall about 300 feet down the track. The car rode the wall before coming to a stop. Force was able to climb out and walk away.

The crash comes after two incidents to start the season, after which the team set to work trying to clear up any issues. They used the Gatornationals in Gainesville as a test session and had no issues in the races since, until Saturday.

I’m fine,” Force said after the crash. “My job is to go out there and win And I thought I turned it around this week and it blew the tires off; I thought it broke an axle it made such a right turn on me, but it will do that when it strikes a tire.

“It put me into the wall and I got if off the wall and then the body must have went down on the front tire because it sucked me into the wall like three times, ‘boom,’ ‘boom,' it kept hitting my shoulder.”

“All the work we did in the safety with the head padding in the last few weeks from a couple of those crashes, that really worked!” he said. “Because I slammed into the roll cage twice, but I was good.

“But my shoulder… I’m going to have them take a look at my collarbone because it hit me like three times.

“Then it took off, it took off again, but I reached right out and pulled the fuel shutoff and shut it off, so I know my safety stuff.”

The 68-year-old NHRA champion seemed little fazed by this latest incident; in other words don’t be surprised to see Force racing Sunday.

“This race car will not ever beat me, you understand?” he said. “It’s my best friend and it ain’t treating me right, but you’ve got to take care of it, you’ve got to treat it right.

“I will never give up on it 'till it kills me and that’s the god’s truth.”

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