NHRA
Force is a finalist for Shav Glick award
FORCE AMONG FINALISTS FOR SHAV GLICK AWARD Penske, Agajanian, Stewart, McGrath Also Nominated FONTANA, Calif. -- Drag racing icon John Force, the NHRA Funny Car Champion 13 of the last 15 years, is among those nominated for the sixth annual Eagle ...
Edited: Feb 13, 2005, 3:36 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
FORCE AMONG FINALISTS FOR SHAV GLICK AWARD
Penske, Agajanian, Stewart, McGrath Also Nominated
FONTANA, Calif. -- Drag racing icon John Force, the NHRA Funny Car Champion 13 of the last 15 years, is among those nominated for the sixth annual Eagle One Shav Glick Award to be presented during the Feb. 27 Automobile Club of Southern California 500 at California Speedway.
The award, named for the long-time motorsports writer for the Los Angeles Times, recognizes distinguished contributions to motorsports in California. Previous winners include NHRA founder Wally Parks, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Rick Mears and Les Richter.
Force, who last season reclaimed the title he had relinquished in 2003 to then teammate Tony Pedregon, is nominated for this year's award along with businessman Roger Penske, legendary promoter J.C. Agajanian, motorcyclist Jeremy McGrath and off-road racing standing Ivan Stewart.
"Being nominated with Penske and J.C. Agajanian and Stewart, the 'Iron Man,' is an honor because those were names you knew growing up in racing," Force said. "Bottom line, if I am lucky enough to get an award that's named for Shav and be on the same page as Wally Parks and Gurney and Parnelli Jones and the others, well, you can't do better than that."
The most successful drag racer of all time, Force has won 114 NHRA tour events and was the American motor racing Driver of the Year in 1996, the only drag racer ever so honored.
He owns numerous NHRA records but is most proud of his 13 career titles. He has qualified a Castrol GTX Funny Car for a record 346 consecutive events, a streak that dates back to Oct. 31, 1987.
Driver of the quickest and fastest Funny Car on the planet, a Castrol GTX Start Up Ford Mustang that last year covered the standard quarter mile in 4.665 seconds at 333.58 miles per hour, Force has won at least one NHRA national event in each of the last 18 seasons.
The judging panel for the Eagle One Shav Glick Award includes national and California motorsports writers and track executives.
-www.johnforceracing.com-
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Mopar Speed news 2005-02-11
Next article Pomona: Pedregon's debut father's coupe
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
John Force
John Force retirement: Heartfelt tributes pour in for "true legend" 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion
General
General
John Force retirement: Heartfelt tributes pour in for "true legend" 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion
John Force retires from NHRA at 76 after violent 300mph crash: "I've been hurt really bad"
General
General
John Force retires from NHRA at 76 after violent 300mph crash: "I've been hurt really bad"
John Force Racing confirms its return to action
NHRA
NHRA
John Force Racing confirms its return to action
Latest news
On this day: Fernando Alonso wins the world title, Michael Schumacher retires from F1
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Brazilian GP
47 min
On this day: Fernando Alonso wins the world title, Michael Schumacher retires from F1
Raul Fernandez still compromised after Indonesia finger injury: “I’m not at 100%”
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Australian GP
1 h
Raul Fernandez still compromised after Indonesia finger injury: “I’m not at 100%”
MotoGP can’t simply copy F1’s Drive to Survive success – Chase Carey
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Australian GP
2 h
MotoGP can’t simply copy F1’s Drive to Survive success – Chase Carey
Marc Marquez's mind games with Jorge Martin: "If you're fast, you don't need team orders"
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Australian GP
2 h
Marc Marquez's mind games with Jorge Martin: "If you're fast, you don't need team orders"
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe