If there was any speculation that Ford’s new guy might not be a drag racing gear-head, that notion was dispelled during the recent Ford Motorsports teleconference.

Brian Wolfe, the newly promoter Ford Racing Technology director, touted John Force as directing all four of his Mustang Funny Cars into the Countdown to the Championship’s playoff phase.

For Wolfe, the timing is perfect as he enters his new role with his prominent teams positioned prominently in both NHRA drag racing and NASCAR’s championship battles. If there was any speculation that Ford’s new guy might not be a drag racing gear-head, that notion was dispelled during the recent Ford Motorsports teleconference.

Brian Wolfe, the newly promoter Ford Racing Technology director, touted John Force as directing all four of his Mustang Funny Cars into the Countdown to the Championship’s playoff phase.

For Wolfe, the timing is perfect as he enters his new role with his prominent teams positioned prominently in both NHRA drag racing and NASCAR’s championship battles.

“It’s an extremely exciting time for myself, being the first time in this position, but from my perspective it’s a great place to be because I feel that in both sanctioning bodies we have the two premier teams,” Wolfe admitted. “Obviously, Jack’s [Roush] record speaks for itself. He’s a great team owner and wonderful with the technology and keeping his operation running like a full team is great to see. And John getting all four of his cars into the Countdown just makes it a great place for me to be in this position right now. I’m excited.”

The typical Ford Racing press conferences are dominated with NASCAR conversations, but on this day, Force was clearly a welcomed topic of conversation for Mr. Wolfe.

Wolfe also welcomed the opportunity to reiterate Ford’s commitment to motorsports in troubled economic times.

“I think like every other auto manufacturer, in every other aspect of the business, we are going through how we spend money everywhere,” Wolfe said. “But our commitment to NASCAR and NHRA will continue as we have. We’re very excited about that and also the exposure that we get from those products. The other thing that we will be doing is we have a large performance parts business and it’s something that I’ve coined a phrase as being racer friendly for some of the sportsman classes and not the bigger classes, and we just want to make sure that we’re giving those guys the support with the sanctioning bodies so that they can race competitively. But, again, we want to try to continue everything that we are doing now with our major teams.”