COIL: “FORCE’S VOICE OF REASON”
Thu, 2009-09-17 23:39
“Austin Coil always keeps me in check.”
That was the answer 14-time Funny Car champion John Force provided when asked whether his longtime tuner has a more calming effect on him than the prescribed medicine he takes.
This weekend Force is reunited with his admitted “voice of reason” in Coil. Just prior to the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis two weeks ago, Coil was admitted to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. He was released over the the weekend, but only after signing a document for the hospital promising that he wouldn’t attend the race.
Had Coil defied the doctor’s orders and been at the track, the throw down in the shutdown, the highly publicized war of words with Tony Pedregon in the O’Reilly Raceway Park shutdown, might not have escalated to such a high crescendo. At least that’s how Force sees it. “Austin Coil always keeps me in check.”
That was the answer 14-time Funny Car champion John Force provided when asked whether his longtime tuner has a more calming effect on him than the prescribed medicine he takes.
This weekend Force is reunited with his admitted “voice of reason” in Coil. Just prior to the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis two weeks ago, Coil was admitted to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. He was released over the the weekend, but only after signing a document for the hospital promising that he wouldn’t attend the race.
Had Coil defied the doctor’s orders and been at the track, the throw down in the shutdown, the highly publicized war of words with Tony Pedregon in the O’Reilly Raceway Park shutdown, might not have escalated to such a high crescendo. At least that’s how Force sees it.
“You ain’t never seen anybody with a temper like Coil,” Force points out. “But after the deal with Tony, he said, ‘You know you care for that kid.”
Coil, according to Force, always has a way of bringing him back to center.
“He always takes me back,” Force admits. “He’ll just look at me and say, ‘Too much coffee, huh?”
“He always has a way of asking, if I’m on meltdown, is it really that big of an issue?”
And more times than not, Force sees it as Coil does.
“You look at those times you fought on the schoolyard and it was really over nothing,” Force explained. “He just has a way of making you realize that before instead of after.”
To make his point, Force provided a perfect example.
In a situation that pushed Force over the edge into meltdown, on the other end of the phone was Coil. Force was screaming away in a phone booth outside of a drugstore.
“I was having a fit,” Force said as he smiled. “I screamed, ‘Austin, you don’t understand!”
“We went back and forth and I jerked the phone cord out of the phone. I kept on talking and screaming and then I realized, “What the?”
Force, in a day and age when cell phones were not as prevalent, had to call Coil collect the next time
“He asked, ‘What happened? Did you get cut off?”
“No, I ripped the phone cord out,” Force responded. “He told me that was a perfect example of how I had accomplished nothing. Let’s talk it out, he told me.”
And, Force believes, having Coil in Indianapolis might have produced a different result in the shutdown area.
That was the answer 14-time Funny Car champion John Force provided when asked whether his longtime tuner has a more calming effect on him than the prescribed medicine he takes.
This weekend Force is reunited with his admitted “voice of reason” in Coil. Just prior to the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis two weeks ago, Coil was admitted to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. He was released over the the weekend, but only after signing a document for the hospital promising that he wouldn’t attend the race.
Had Coil defied the doctor’s orders and been at the track, the throw down in the shutdown, the highly publicized war of words with Tony Pedregon in the O’Reilly Raceway Park shutdown, might not have escalated to such a high crescendo. At least that’s how Force sees it. “Austin Coil always keeps me in check.”
That was the answer 14-time Funny Car champion John Force provided when asked whether his longtime tuner has a more calming effect on him than the prescribed medicine he takes.
This weekend Force is reunited with his admitted “voice of reason” in Coil. Just prior to the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis two weeks ago, Coil was admitted to the hospital suffering from internal bleeding. He was released over the the weekend, but only after signing a document for the hospital promising that he wouldn’t attend the race.
Had Coil defied the doctor’s orders and been at the track, the throw down in the shutdown, the highly publicized war of words with Tony Pedregon in the O’Reilly Raceway Park shutdown, might not have escalated to such a high crescendo. At least that’s how Force sees it.
“You ain’t never seen anybody with a temper like Coil,” Force points out. “But after the deal with Tony, he said, ‘You know you care for that kid.”
Coil, according to Force, always has a way of bringing him back to center.
“He always takes me back,” Force admits. “He’ll just look at me and say, ‘Too much coffee, huh?”
“He always has a way of asking, if I’m on meltdown, is it really that big of an issue?”
And more times than not, Force sees it as Coil does.
“You look at those times you fought on the schoolyard and it was really over nothing,” Force explained. “He just has a way of making you realize that before instead of after.”
To make his point, Force provided a perfect example.
In a situation that pushed Force over the edge into meltdown, on the other end of the phone was Coil. Force was screaming away in a phone booth outside of a drugstore.
“I was having a fit,” Force said as he smiled. “I screamed, ‘Austin, you don’t understand!”
“We went back and forth and I jerked the phone cord out of the phone. I kept on talking and screaming and then I realized, “What the?”
Force, in a day and age when cell phones were not as prevalent, had to call Coil collect the next time
“He asked, ‘What happened? Did you get cut off?”
“No, I ripped the phone cord out,” Force responded. “He told me that was a perfect example of how I had accomplished nothing. Let’s talk it out, he told me.”
And, Force believes, having Coil in Indianapolis might have produced a different result in the shutdown area.
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