2008: Became the first female driver to win an NHRA Funny Car event; She beat her father, John Force, in the final round in Atlanta; Reached four final rounds; Earned three No. 1 qualifying awards.
2007: Won Auto Club Road to the Future award, given annually to top performing rookie; Advanced to first career final round at Las Vegas 2; Had a 1-1 record in head-to-head races with father, John Force; Earned Top 10 finish; Went to back-to-back semis (Atlanta and St. Louis) and was as high as seventh in the point standings.
2006: Obtained her Funny Car license during a test session in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 11; scored two wins in Alcohol Dragster
2005: Scored two national events runner-ups in Alcohol Dragster.
2004: Moved up to the Top Alcohol Dragster division; won her first national event at the prestigious Mac Tools U.S. Nationals; won Division 4 Top Alcohol Dragster championship and named division's “Rookie of the Year.”
2002: earned an NHRA competition drivers license after graduation from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School and competed in Super Comp.
Force moved up in classification in 2007 to drive a fourth Ford Mustang Funny Car for John Force Racing, Inc., Castrol and the Automobile Club of Southern California.
A graduate of California State University-Fullerton where she majored in communications with an emphasis on TV and film, Ashley was among those competing in 2007 for the Automobile Club of Southern California Road to the Future Award which identifies the NHRA Rookie-of-the-Year.
After spending three seasons in Super Comp, the category in which her younger sisters compete, and after earning her bachelor's degree, Ashley began driving an A/Fuel dragster for Californians Jerry Darien and Ken Meadows in 2004.
Her first national event victory came in her rookie season in the Top Alcohol Dragster division at the 50th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis, Ind., the world's oldest, largest and richest drag racing event. She also won that year at Dallas, Texas, and at Pomona, where she shared the winners' circle at the season-ending Auto Club Finals with her father as the only father-and-daughter winners in NHRA history.
In three seasons in Top Alcohol, the former high school cheerleader went to nine final rounds and won five times. She finished fourth, seventh and fifth in national points during her three seasons in the dragster.
