confirmed that Verizon Indy Car series driver Graham Rahal and NHRA driver Courtney Force, who have been together since late 2013, got engaged on November 27th of this year.Rahal proposed to the “lady of his dreams,” as he called her on Twitter, while on vacation in Venice, Italy.I would say it one-ups the NASCAR dating scene due to who their fathers are, but truth be told, NASCAR (1.35 million Twitter followers) is far more popular than both Indy Car (106 thousand Twitter followers) and the NHRA (57.5 thousand Twitter followers) combined.I don’t know that this sort of focus is what either sport really needs to boost their fan base, but as they say, publicity is publicity.
” Two of the most famous names in racing are uniting.But I’m happy to talk about it if it brings some attention to both of these series, which are the fastest of the fast in America.A passion for racing clearly runs in the family as Courtney's elder sister Ashley was the first to demonstrate that female racers could compete successfully with men when she became the first woman to win a Funny Car event in 2008.Courtney Force, a national spokesperson for Ford Motor Company’s Driving Skills for Life initiative, wasted little time in showing off her competitive skills at the wheel of the 8,000 horsepower Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car in which she is vying this year for the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Road to the Future Award that identifies the NHRA’s Rookie-of-the-Year.Driving one of the world’s most powerful race cars, a hybrid Mustang capable of zero-to-315 mile per hour acceleration in little more than four seconds, Courtney already has done something that her dad, 15-time champion John Force; her sister, two-time MAC Tools U. Nationals winner Ashley Force Hood; and her brother-in-law, 2009 champion Robert Hight, never did – and that is win her first professional racing round.