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Britney Force wins Night Under Fire Beckman debuts Norwalk Ohio after an 11-year absence two time Top Fuel world champion Britney force made the most of her Saturday return to the Cornwell tools Night Under Fire pushing her blue and black Cornwell dragster to the night's quickest time and fastest speed 3.84 seconds at 32020 mph on route to a momentum building victory at Summit Motorsport Park John Force Racing missed a double up win in funny car when mechanical issues slowed Jack Beckman and the peak antifreeze and coolant Chevrolet Camaro SS to 8.76 6 seconds at only 85.5 1 mph in a final round loss to Dale crey Jr Bill Bader's events are always a highlight of the season and competing in them is such a privilege Britney said we ran the quickest ET in the first round but in the final our car started to spin the tires fortunately it was good enough for the which gives us momentum heading into Brainard Minnesota sight of the August 16th 18 Lucas Oil Nationals the next event in the nh's Mission Food series meanwhile despite the final round disappointment Beckman was pleased with the overall direction of his first week filling in for John Force who continues to recover from a TBI suffered in a June 23rd crash in Richmond Virginia I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that it's actually me sitting in John Force's car said the 33 time nhr tour winner JFR president Robert height did a conference call on Friday and I got to speak to John for the first time since his accident that was medicine for the soul then John called me Saturday before I got in the car he said just go out there and do what you know how to do there's no pressure recounted the former NH National Record holder and he was right I actually came out here to get licensed and wound up having a ton of fun in the process I got to know the members of John's Peak team I've known a few of them but I got to spend more time with the rest of them and I guess under the circumstances you could not have asked for a better way to get indoctrinated to the car and the team he said after a setup run of 4.7 seconds at 38.2 mph on Friday fast Jack was the number one qualifier Saturday with a first round time of 4.47 at 39.347895 put us behind the eightball we got to step on the throttle a bunch of times he said I got the runs I needed to get my license renewed and we probably learned a couple things about the car remember John and I don't weigh the same and our driving styles are a little bit different the crew and I are going to have to meld our Styles together to where everything is predictable again for them like it was when John was driving the biggest thing is now I know how to go home and visualize exact ly what this car looks like feels like sounds like and responds like I'll be better when we get to brainer you have to remember it's a brand new car it had never been down the racetrack before so I think we checked off all the boxes

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