John Force has been in excellent company, with Tom McEwen and Tommy Ivo, when he recalls the chilly reception he always used to get from Don "The Snake" Prudhomme.

"Go away," Prudhomme told him -- told them all -- repeatedly.

But surely Prudhomme was happy recently that Force approached him, because his fellow NHRA legend had money to give him. Force purchased the former Snake Racing headquarters property at the corner of Northfield Drive and Southpoint Circle in Brownsburg, Ind.

John Force has been in excellent company, with Tom McEwen and Tommy Ivo, when he recalls the chilly reception he always used to get from Don "The Snake" Prudhomme.

"Go away," Prudhomme told him -- told them all -- repeatedly.

But surely Prudhomme was happy recently that Force approached him, because his fellow NHRA legend had money to give him. Force purchased the former Snake Racing headquarters property at the corner of Northfield Drive and Southpoint Circle in Brownsburg, Ind.

He announced this past January that he had bought a portion of that property, with the option by June or July to buy another five acres. So he exercised his option, he told Competition Plus this weekend at Charlotte, N.C.

"I need to build on that front lot, because when you have an empty lot out in the opening, it looks like things aren't growing," Force said at the first of this year. He said he's still planning to do so.

"I'm building a new building there. They start moving dirt Friday. I want the park to look finished," he said this past Thursday in conversation at the Speedway Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

"I'm a strong company. I've been growing. I got too big an operation, like NASCAR. And I just bought the rest of Prudhomme's property. I own it all, as of Monday," he said.

"That's working good. I'm filling it up with renters, had two other renters just move in."

Force said he was concentrating on the acquisition that would expand his Brownsburg holdings when he was, in his words, "blindsided" by the news from Ford and Castrol that they would end their long-term sponsorship agreement with his racing operation.

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