BRITTANY FORCE Owns Speed but Not Success at World Wide Technology Raceway

September 29, 2025

GRRL! musings:

To an outsider, drag racing is confusing. The winner of the race isn’t the one who goes the fastest speed, it’s the racer that gets from point A to point B in the least time from when the green light comes on. Brittany was the former but sadly not the latter.

GRRL! SUMMARY:

BRITTANY FORCE absolutely demolished her own three-year-old speed record at World Wide Technology Raceway, clocking 340.47 mph in her HendrickCars.com Dragster—more than two miles per hour faster than her previous mark. This wasn’t just fast; it was Force flexing her complete dominance over the speed charts.
Here’s the mind-bender: Force owns 11 of the 15 fastest runs ever recorded at 340+ mph, yet somehow Doug Kalitta still grabbed the No. 1 qualifying spot with a better elapsed time. It’s like being the fastest person on the highway but still getting passed—physics meets racing strategy in the most frustrating way possible.
The cruel irony? All that record-breaking speed couldn’t save Force from a first-round exit against Justin Ashley, who went on to become race runner-up. Sometimes drag racing serves up the harshest lessons about how raw speed doesn’t always translate to race-day success, even when you’re rewriting the record books.