Rahal cements Force union

[robinjackson]

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John Force Racing and Graham Rahal Performance Announce Partnership for 2025 NHRA Season | Drag Illustrated

Graham Rahal Performance (GRP) and John Force Racing are thrilled to announce a new partnership for the 2025 NHRA Season. At the upcoming NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, hosted at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, for the very first time, Graham Rahal Performance will be the primary sponsor on...

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[Dragracer]

John has mentioned that he has a second T/F car and is ready to bring it out when he gets a sponsor for it. Would be interesting if Graham were to be it's driver. Just thinking out loud.

 

[Topfuel386]

John mention in his interview last weekend who the driver would be if enough money was found.

 

[aakar]

John has mentioned that he has a second T/F car and is ready to bring it out when he gets a sponsor for it. Would be interesting if Graham were to be it's driver. Just thinking out loud.

Graham and Brit are BFFs, that would be amazing!

 

[MHayes]

John mention in his interview last weekend who the driver would be if enough money was found.

Who would it be? Sorry, missed the interview.

 

[Nunz]

I believe he was talking about Jordan Vandergriff. Not sure he specified a TF car. I know he has had Jordan make some test hits in a FC, although I don't think he finished licensing.

 

[65 Goatboy]

Jordan has said on the nhra.tv broadcasts he wants to get back in a nitro car. He made is TF debut in 2019 racing in 11 events. Sounds like he could easily renew his license.

 

[mick]

GRP is no joke. it's quite the footprint/facility. never know what partnerships you'll find in the motorsports world.

'i never want to get back into a nitro car' ...... said no former driver ...... ever

 

[camaro]

GRP is no joke. it's quite the footprint/facility. never know what partnerships you'll find in the motorsports world.

'i never want to get back into a nitro car' ...... said no former driver ...... ever

not sure about that,
remember Troy Coughlin Jr. I thought i heard a comment, that he was done with Nitro!

 

[mick]

yes, you are right james. so did arnie karp......but as a general rule of thumb

 

[Jack]

John has mentioned that he has a second T/F car and is ready to bring it out when he gets a sponsor for it. Would be interesting if Graham were to be it's driver. Just thinking out loud.

Graham's Indy car race schedule is pretty intense. Not sure how this would work out.

 

[ironpony]

Great news for racings future. Maybe why Hight moved on ? he was kind of the outsider now.

 

[J. S.]

Graham's Indy car race schedule is pretty intense. Not sure how this would work out.

I don't think it is really intense. They have a pretty short season, and at times there is a lot of time off between races.

 

[Jack]

I don't think it is really intense. They have a pretty short season, and at times there is a lot of time off between races.

Indy car has a seventeen week season and many dates conflict with the NHRA schedule. Sounds like it would be a one or the other senerio. Then there is the responsibility of running his business and the family ghing. Would love to see him in the NHRA But not sure how it could be done.

 

[sutton]

GRP is no joke. it's quite the footprint/facility. never know what partnerships you'll find in the motorsports world.

'i never want to get back into a nitro car' ...... said no former driver ...... ever

If you never want to get back into a nitro car. Then you didn't want to be there in the first place. There is NOTHING like it in this world NOTHING. Just one more lap please, (at 82 NA) maybe. LOL
Larry Sutton---

 

[jsracz]

GRP is one hell of a business, congrats to Graham for growing it from the ground up. Honestly never realized Ducati was such big "thing" which has also lead him into the other sides of his business like performance car sales and all the other things he's built into his new campus like facility.

As for his indy car stuff. He seems to really struggle year after year just being competitive in so many races I lost count including their biggest race the 500. Talking with an ex-engineer in the series his feeling was Graham's shear size makes it tougher with many guys being smaller. I looked at the guy like he had three heads but he was serious. I always leaned towards they as a whole team just didn't have the right parts and people in place. I do wonder if it wasn't for his Dad's success/backing if Graham would be out of a seat. I would be great to see him give it a go on this side of the fence.

 

[JohnH]

Graham hasn't said a word about driving in NHRA , but never say never. With his IndyCar retirement not too far into the future, anything is possible. I never would have guessed Tony Stewart would be in TF either. Saw Courtney on Sunday but no GR.

 

[Walter]

Graham is pretty heavily invested business-wise in road racing, both 2 and 4 wheel.

He runs a motorcycle road racing team on Ducatis and is a dealer. https://rahalducatimoto.com/ https://www.rahalducati.com/

He is also a Radical dealer and announced a team in that series. https://radicalmotorsport.com/news/indycars-rahal-joins-radical-cup-north-america https://www.grahamrahalperformance....t-Car-SR3-XXR-grahamrahalperformance-13597445

If he strays from Indy cars, my thought is he goes with his Dad's BMW factory team in the Weathertech series and/or supports the competitions in which he has teams.

 

[vern]

He has a nice selection of cars for sale. My cousin Scott deals with Graham. Anyone looking for a nice Ferrari my cousin has this one for sale.