Age: 17

Occupation: Student

Education: Esperanza High School (Yorba Linda, Ca.), completing her senior year

Hobbies: Shopping, hanging out with friends, going to the races and the beach

Racing background:
Courtney earned her NHRA competition drivers license in August of 2004 after graduating from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School; entering her second season at the wheel of a 180-mile-an-hour Brand Source sponsored hybrid dragster.

Statuesque, like mother Laurie, Courtney Force is the youngest of drag racing champion John Force’s four daughters. She also is the offspring Force always believed was most likely to follow him into the family business. Yet, like sisters Brittany and Ashley, Courtney isn’t obsessive about driving a race car.

“Their mother has tried to give them balance in their lives, something I’ve never had,” Force said. “She tells them that there’s more to life than just racing. I tell them that if they want to be champions, they have to live racing, night and day.”

A former cheerleader at Esperanza High School in Yorba Linda, Ca., Courtney demonstrated that balance last October in Las Vegas, Nev., where, after qualifying first in her division on Saturday, she bypassed race day on Sunday to return to California for a school dance.

Like her sisters, Ashley and Brittany, Courtney’s professional racing aspirations will hinge upon her acquiring a college degree.