While NASCAR tries desperately to characterize Danica Patrick as the best female driver in modern-day stock car racing, Ashley Force Hood is trying just as hard to escape such labeling in an NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series that moves this week to Gainesville Raceway for the 41st renewal of the Tire Kingdom Gatornationals.
Although she has been remarkably successful in her first three pro seasons, earning 2007 Rookie-of-the-Year honors, becoming the first woman to win an NHRA Funny Car event as well as the first to drive a Funny Car to victory in the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, Force Hood even now is reluctant to fully embrace her female celebrity … Details
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