Father’s Day has come and gone, but it was quite a day for proud papa John Force as both his daughters had big days at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals.

After watching one of his daughters, Courtney, claim the provisional top qualifying spot in the Funny Car class, Force waited at the end of the track while another daughter, Brittany, raced to the top spot in Top Fuel.

Father’s Day has come and gone, but it was quite a day for proud papa John Force as both his daughters had big days at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals.

After watching one of his daughters, Courtney, claim the provisional top qualifying spot in the Funny Car class, Force waited at the end of the track while another daughter, Brittany, raced to the top spot in Top Fuel.

Brittany was in the fourth pair during the second qualifying session, meaning after she laid down a blistering 3.762 pass at 325.53 mph, father and daughter had to wait for about 10 more pairs to run before her spot at the top was secure.

“It was more my dad that was stressing out than anything,” Brittany said. “I was fine, laid back, just watching. That’s more my personality. He’s pacing and worried about it. I was confident our number would hold because it was a good run.”

Though it was a ‘good run,’ Force did not know how good until she popped out of the car after the pass.

“Actually it felt kind of slow,” she said. “When they told me what I ran I was shocked, I thought I heard them wrong.”

The Force sisters are trying to accomplish something they have already accomplished once this season…to both end up as top qualifiers in their class.

“It’s exciting to go to No. 1, especially with Courtney next to me,” Brittany Force said. “We did that back in Topeka and that was awesome.”

One thing for certain, their father loves when they find success on the track.

“Just for the record, I created them,” John Force told the media after the first day of qualifying was over. “With a little help from their mother, of course.”

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