John Force Racing adds Lucas Oil Products to sponsor list for 2015 NHRA campaign

JFR continues to retool sponsorship lineup after losing Castrol, Ford John Force Racing announced a multi-year sponsorship with Lucas Oil Products on Saturday at Pomona, Calif. The announcement makes Lucas Oil the “Official Oil of John Force Racing“ and the Corona, Calif.-based company will have signage on all the John Force Racing Funny Cars and the Top Fuel dragster as well as driver uniforms and race transporters beginning in 2015.“Forrest and Charlotte Lucas with their son Morgan and Lucas Oil Products are a perfect fit for John Force Racing," said John Force, 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion and CEO of John Force Racing. "This partnership between two strong American families and companies is what makes this sport and country so great. Our two families have grown up together in this sport and we will have a strong future together. I had a great partner for almost 30 years with Castrol and they will always be part of our history but Lucas Oil is our future. I am excited about the opportunity to grow my company and keep racing for many years with the backing of Lucas Oil.“Force has almost 1,200 round wins and 141 Funny Car race wins to his credit. The entire John Force Racing team has 237 Funny Car victories, the most by any NHRA racing organization in one class, and is chasing down their 19th team Mello Yello Funny Car championship this weekend at the 50th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona.The sponsorship will help to keep Force and teammates Robert Hight and Courtney Force in Funny Cars next year and Brittany Force in a Top Fuel dragster.

Even a sponsor announcement is a big event when it comes to John Force and his John Force Racing NHRA empire. Photo by John Force Racing

“John Force is a guy I have admired for many, many years. In my opinion he made Castrol oil in this country," said Forrest Lucas, founder and CEO of Lucas Oil Products. "The fact that he became available was shocking to me. I see him partnering with us and it will be a huge economic boost for Lucas Oil around the world. It will be good for John Force Racing because it is more stability and I see this as a win-win situation. It will also be good for NHRA drag racing because it keeps John racing and we don”t have any intentions on leaving so it should be good for everybody.  Hopefully all the fans will keep coming back and using Lucas Oil.“There are not as many young people coming into NHRA as we would like to see but John has his beautiful daughters involved and they are doing a good job. He has given them good equipment and has good people working with them. Morgan grew up with the girls and they are all good friends. The fact that we are creating the second generation of drag racing leaders and we are not the only ones doing this but we have some of the top rising stars out there."Lucas has long been directly involved in the American racing industry through multiple vehicle sponsorships and racing event promotions, at all levels.This is the second major sponsorship announcement for John Force Racing. In Las Vegas JFR announced PEAK anti-freeze and Blue Def as a primary sponsor for John Force for the majority of the races in 2015. Today”s announcement is another major step forward to financially strengthening the winningest Funny Car team in NHRA history. In the coming weeks John Force Racing plans a number of additional announcements leading up to the 55th annual Circle K NHRA Winternationals.

12.12.2014
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