John Force is synonymous with funny car drag racing, with a prodigious 14 championships and an animated nature that has made him perhaps the sport's most popular figure.

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Yet when Force arrived in Pomona for the 50th running of the Winternationals, the season opener for the National Hot Rod Assn.'s Full Throttle Series, he was hungry to show he could win again. After all, Force had won only once since he was seriously injured in a racing crash in 2007 that required extensive rehabilitation, and that victory was 20 months ago. But any doubts were erased Sunday when Force edged Ron Capps by the narrowest of margins to win the Kragen O'Reilly Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway, his 127th career win. And the 60-year-old Force did so with reflexes that still appear superlative. Capps actually traversed the 1,000-foot drag strip with an elapsed time that was a tick faster -- 4.123 seconds versus Force's 4.124 seconds -- and yet Force won the race.

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