Age: 23

Occupation: Race car driver

Education: Esperanza High School (Yorba Linda, Ca.), California State University-Fullerton, College of Communications, B.A., Radio TV Film

Hobbies: Movies, video production, shopping, kickboxing, and spending time with family and friends

Racing background: Ashley earned an NHRA competition drivers license after graduation from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School; after two years in Super Comp, moved up in 2004 to the Top Alcohol Dragster division where she is in her third season at the controls of a 275-mile-an-hour dragster sponsored by Castrol Motor Oil. Ashley obtained her Funny Car license during a test session in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11, 2006.

Notable: Ashley was a Top 10 finisher in national points in each of her first two seasons in the Top Alcohol division with three NHRA national victories including one in the season-ending 2004 World Finals at Pomona, Ca. The result of that victory was that she shared the winners’ circle with her dad, winner of the Funny Car class. Ashley looks forward to moving into the Funny Car class in 2007 or 2008 to race against her father.

Ashley was the 2004 Division 4 Top Alcohol Dragster champion and “Rookie of the Year.” Who knew? Despite the fact that, as electives, she took high school courses in auto shop and welding, Ashley Force’s interest in the “family business” came as a complete shock to her father. Nevertheless, two years after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University-Fullerton, the former high school cheerleader is being hailed as a future star of the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series and a possible successor to her father, 13-time Funny Car Champion John Force. Although her focus is on moving up to the Funny Car division as soon as 2007, it’s not an obsession. In fact, she could as easily carve out a career in television and film, her emphasis in college and her hobby ever since. Among her “productions” is a takeoff on Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” featuring her father as Scrooge, and titled “The Bi-Polar Express.”