Britney Force looking to move up in Top Fuel Points at brainer as one of only a handful of pro drivers to have won an NH Championship after starting the countdown from a position outside the top five Britney Force knows full well that once you're in it you certainly can win it nevertheless the reality is that the championship almost always goes to drivers who start the playoffs from a position higher than the number 10 slot in which the two-time Top Fuel world champion and her Monster Energy Chevrolet team find themselves entering this week's 42nd Lucas Oil Nationals at Brainard International Raceway the 38-year-old daughter of drag racing Legend and 11-time Brainard funny car champion John Force won the 2022 series title from the number one starting position in a dominant season however she claimed the first of her two titles 5 years earlier winning three of the six countdown races after starting sixth doing well in Brainard is going to be critical said the 2013 NH rookie of the year after early season struggles we have shown Improvement in qualifying but our Focus this week needs to be going rounds on race day to move up out of the number 10 spot 10th is a risky position this late in the regular season and we need to move up to a safer spot before the points are reset for the countdown following the Labor Day us Nationals at Indianapolis Indiana she said I'm very confident in this David grubnic and John Collins run team said the 16-time Mission Foods tour winner referencing the crew chiefs on her National Record record holding dragster we have a lot of work to do but we have momentum coming off a big win in the Night Under Fire 2 weeks ago at Norwalk Ohio and a semi-final finish at Sonoma California the last time we raced for points in addition to a 2016 victory in the Lucas Oil Nationals Britney was runner up in 2015 and has been the number one qualifier in three of her last four starts at Dar while 54 of the 68 pro- Champions crowned during the countdown era have started Ed the playoffs fourth are higher Force knows that Victory is possible from further back in the order as far back even as her current number 10 the position from which John Force Racing president Robert height won the funny car championship in 2009 before she starts collecting points toward a position Improvement in Sunday's eliminations she'll race Saturday in the mission # to fast to Tasty nhre challenge opposing the tour's most recent winner Antron Brown With A Chance thereafter to race for her second hash2 pass two tasty bonus in the last five events