Laurie Force is a TV show host and spouse to John Force. John Force, Laurie Force’s husband John is a American NHRA drag racer. John is 16-time NHRA and a one-time AHRA Funny Car champion driver and a 21-time champion vehicle owner. Force is the owner and driver of John Force Racing. Force is among the most powerful drag racers with 154 victories in his career.
- Laurie Force who has been called the matriarch of the racing dynasty, is able to stand her ground among her family’s prominent members. Their husband Drag racing legend John Force, regards her as a huge supporter without whom he could not be able to achieve his fame and success.
When her husband was away running in races, Laurie would stay at her home with their two children at Yorba Linda, California, and played a major role in helping them become competent, well-rounded adults.
Laurie made it a priority as a mom to go to every ballet, dance and gymnastics, piano and cheerleading contest, recital or game that her children competed in.
Laurie Force was very hands-on in raising her three daughters as mother. She was a regular attendee at all the school activities, and knows that every member of the family is involved in drag racing She is their most avid fan, always on the race track as well as the standings for tracking points along with lane options and the variables they come with, as well as providing the drivers’ family an earful whenever they need to speak up.
Laurie completed her training for her license in the 160mph NHRA Super Comp car from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School while she was in her mid-50s. She was awarded the Pat Garlits Memorial Award in the year 2016, which is awarded to a woman who has made extraordinary contribution to drag racing.
Laurie is born July 10, 1950, in America. United States of America. In 2022 she was 72 years young. She earned a bachelor’s master’s degree in sociology from San Diego State University (SDSU).
Who was it that brought Laurie Force and John Force Meet?
What happened when the two lovebirds meet and begin the love affair? John Laurie and John Laurie first met at a wedding ceremony of friends in the year 1972. John was a unemployed truck driver at the time he began after his young Laurie. Laurie was part of a stable family, and was the daughter of an executive at the Ford Motor Company executive!.
They dated for 10 years before finally finding a suitable. After a few months of dating The lovebird was able to decide to get married. the couple was married on the 26th of September 1981. John and Laurie remain married They have been married for nearly four decades.
Their union has brought four daughters. The oldest child Adria Hight was John’s first daughter from his marriage. Adria has been Chief Financial Officer at John Force Racing, Inc since October of 1988. The three other children were born to Laurie herself, are drag racers: Ashley, Brittany, and Courtney.
Laurie Force’s daughter Ashley Force Hood, who was born on 29 November 1982, was once was a Top Fuel Funny Car drag racer for their company John Force Racing. But she’s decided to quit racing to have children together with husband Daniel Hood.
The other daughter of hers, Brittany Leighton Force, was born on the 8th of July 1986. She is an NHRA drag racer as well. She was named the 2017 ‘NHRA’ Drag Racing Series’ Top Fuel dragster champion. The daughter who was last, Courtney Force, born on the 20th of June 1988, was a drag racing driver who was able race on some of the NHRA tours.
Even though John is the racer of professional status, Laurie has always been involved in the family business, and her actions have contributed to its growth. Laurie Force was instrumental in the beginning that the company was a family affair and was able to take on a wide range of duties, such as backing the car up on the line to start mixing gasoline, even writing contracts for sponsors to be brought in.
“Somehow she managed to manage me…I recall my first contract I delivered to Wendy’s Hamburgers, one of the first large companies in America that I tried to sign. They returned it and said”We cherish you. We’d like to see you to sign it. Find someone who is able to write this. This is logical. Then she did it from there. Then we continued to grow however, it wasn’t her knowledge.” John Force, Laurie’s spouse John admitted.
