John Force drove his Castrol GTX High Mileage Mustang to victory during NHRA’s special added attraction event – the 2014 Traxxas Nitro Shootout – held in conjunction with the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Indy.

(John Force (far lane) won a cool $100G when he beat Robert Hight in the all JFR Traxxas Nitro Shootout FC Final round)

In the final round held on Sunday afternoon, Force ran a solid 4.061 second pass at 317.19 mph to his son-in-law and teammate Robert Hight.  Robert’s slightly off-pace 4.178 second run at 304.32 mph. This was John’s second Traxxas Nitro Shootout victory as he won the inaugural event in 2012. This was also John’s eighth victory in an NHRA all-star bonus event and earned $100,000 for the win today.

“I want to thank the fans for sticking this out, it was a killer crowd last night and today and we need these crowds as they stayed with us all did with on again and off again rain. I also want to thank the driver and the teams in our sport and also NHRA, Mello Yello and Mike Jenkins from Traxxas for putting up the money. They do such a fantastic job putting on these events. We’ve been working hard all week and putting in long hours but that what it takes. My granddaughter Autumn wanted her daddy (Robert Hight) to win but I promised her if I won, her grandpa would give her the trophy. It was a win-win situation for us going into the Traxxas final, we couldn’t lose,” said John Force.

Force – the #1 seed entering the annual event – beat Tim Wilkerson and Alexis DeJoria in rounds one and two.

Posted with files from Elon Werner & Bruce Biegler

Photo by:  Bruce Biegler