John Force Daughters: Adria Force Hight Dies at 56
john force daughters lost Adria Force Hight on April 28, 2026, when John Force’s eldest daughter died at 56. She was the first child from his first marriage and later became one of the first people to help build John Force Racing from the ground up.
Adria Force Hight and John Force Racing
Hight did more than carry the family name. In the team’s early days, she answered phones and sold T-shirts from the race trailer before rising to chief financial officer, a path that tracked the team’s growth from a budding outfit to one of NHRA’s most successful operations.
That rise mattered inside the family as much as it did in the pit area. She was the fun big sister to Ashley, Brittany and Courtney, and the sisters’ racing careers became part of the same family structure that kept John Force Racing tied together over the years.
A family built around NHRA
Ashley Force Hood became the first daughter to drive professionally for the team, Brittany Force went on to become one of the most successful Top Fuel drivers in the sport and won multiple championships, and Courtney Force drove Funny Car professionally before retiring to raise a family with IndyCar driver Graham Rahal. Adria stayed connected to them all, and John Force said, “I failed as a father, miserably. But drag racing, NHRA, brought them all home to me.”
Her life also reached beyond the race shop. She shared her daughter Autumn with former husband Robert Hight, traveled to NHRA race weekends with Autumn to watch and cheer, moved to Indiana with her fiancé Jimmy to be closer to her, and later bought a motor home so she could follow Autumn’s Super Comp races.
Autumn, Jimmy and the road
Hight also sang and played tambourine in Mad Man Billy, a band that recorded CDs, played car shows and local restaurants, and performed at Pismo Beach. She founded Civil Defense Music as well, adding another lane to a life that moved between family, racing and music.
What changed on April 28 is simple and final: John Force Racing lost a longtime behind-the-scenes executive, and the Force family lost the sister who helped hold its racing world together from the start.
