Mike Neff

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Mike Neff, who won his first NHRA Funny Car championship from outside the cockpit, hopes to win his next one from the inside as a member of John Force Racing’s next generation of professional drivers. A native of Hemet, Calif., where he grew up racing dirt bikes and off-road trucks, Neff will contest the 2008 NHRA Powerade Championship in a brand new John Medlen-tuned Ford Mustang Funny Car sponsored by Old Spice. n addition, the 41-year-old Neff will be racing to become the third JFR driver in four years to win the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Road to the Future Award that identifies the Rookie-of-the-Year on the Powerade tour. Teammates Robert Hight (2005) and Ashley Force (2007) won the honor before him. Although Neff now lives in Fishers, Ind., with his wife, son and daughter, his brother still lives in Hemet where he owns a construction business and does ministry work. “I’m taking it as it comes,” he said, “but it’s an honor to be here. These guys are the best Funny Car racers there have ever been. Their cars run great. They don’t really need much at all but hopefully I can add something that makes us just a little bit better and lighten things up a little bit or make things a little simpler. That’s what John Medlen and I have been working on since I’ve been here.”