Driving Force Season 1 Episode 3: The Journey Home

you can do this you look hot in that outfit my wife lori hates this house and we're tearing it down just to build a new one if my parents could see me now everybody come on courtney go hit the wall go go where i grew up you had to do everything yourself what i'm trying to teach my girls is the value of getting your hands dirty okay brittany come with me we're going inside to break a window we got to break a few windows no i don't that's just stupid i don't want to do that brittany come this way this is [ __ ] yeah i don't want to do that job the glass does fly back at you come on we got two more weeks of this god this is exciting times in our life can i go to the mall now jesus christ you know i've been racing for 30 years i've won 13 championships i've been on fire from here to australia and nothing could prepare me for having daughters and what a drag race john force takes home the trophy i wasn't always a winner my parents moved out to california during the dust bowl i grew up in a one-room trailer house in bell gardens we were poor sometimes we didn't even have food on the table you might say the odds were against me but i fought for what i wanted and then racing come along my brother louie helped me buy my first race car boy we struggled a lot in those days i'll never forget that first paycheck things have really been good to me since then really good all i ever wanted was a better life for my kids and for them not to have to go through what i've been through but i'll never deny where i came from louie you seen louie i haven't trying to take him to lunch i want to take you to lunch you got time yeah come on all right what do you want this is lunch louie's my older brother and i just love him to death we've been through some crazy times together you know why i like these because we ate a lot of bologna and cheese in that trailer house they used to be your favorite they send you school that i was telling all the kids the other day that reached in the refrigerator to get milk and i said this is sour and you just drank it and i said that's sour and you said no just tell yourself it's buttermilk they thought i was lying they won't believe that you actually had to eat sometimes spoiled food you got a birthday coming up what do you want for your birthday nothing here give me a trash there's more money in this room than dad ever made in his entire life but what about your birthday i ask can you dance what do you want ain't gonna buy you nothing expensive i just didn't want to get you brown socks i never wear brown socks wasn't for you louie i wouldn't have all this i owe you and i love you use it all before it's too late john all that was good for you was good for me too brother what do you want for your birthday let's just have a beer bear's too early louie never had anything because he always gave everything to me that's why i'm going to take the girls to help me get something nice on his birthday louie's always loved harley-davidson's and and the harley-davidson truck is kind of special yeah that's how you should get them my sisters and i are really excited to pick out a truck for louie and i'd really like you to learn how to negotiate to buy a truck don't let a salesman just tell you this is what it cost now do you girls ever go buy a dress do you ever negotiate for what you buy no what do you mean no courtney you just go in and throw your money out on the table yeah dad when you're at nordstrom's you can't go well i'll give you 50 for it no p65 why can't you that's how i buy diamond that's why i buy underwear that's how i buy it well do you buy them at a swap meet because that explain your itching you know you got you know what act like ladies in here and act like we have a brain louie saw it and he loved it but he said i can't afford it ashley why don't you take the girls and your mother and go for a ride jump in and go don't put no more than two miles on let off the emergency brake it's off we do anything for uncle louie he's the best i like it we'll take it okay oh you all said you wanted to buy louie a truck we need four thousand dollars how much are you going to sacrifice how much do you want to give toward this you give me a couple thousand fifteen hundred give me a thousand bucks don't make me do this how much you want to get honey you love louie we would love to help louie but what is my dad talking about i'm 17. instead of a thousand bucks give me 250 bucks will you do that um that's like a third of the price of the juicy purse i was gonna get a juicy what purse what the hell is a juicy purse a juicy purse juicy couture a juicy purse it'll be worth it ridiculous just do this for me okay go home and think about what you want to give okay if you don't want to give nothing don't give nothing okay i'll pay it myself but you know what on the night of his party you're gonna be sorry you didn't give okay you know maybe all these years of giving my girls everything maybe i just made things too easy for them we're just not connecting i have something to come in i ask them for photo shoots every time i bring up well we need to go do this this week it's like oh my god like like i'd tell them they had to quit living they drive new cars and they got credit cards and they got you know shopping malls with their friends you know they need to realize that you put in a lot of hard work to get here and they need to be grounded and they need to work it's race day where in the hell are these girls this crew's been out here since six o'clock this morning this is not fair and i do not need this kind of stress i don't want to think that my daughters are spoiled but i know that they don't have to worry whether they work or not they don't have that fear and that bothers me i know that that fear is what's driven me to be a success and i don't know how to give them that fear so i push them every day courtney what the hell took you so long jesus christ you're the next guy on the starting pad would you focus on winning this race god vote you know what really bothers me that courtney doesn't really take this stuff seriously and that's a first round loss for courtney ford it looks like she's headed back to the trailer jesus this is not full you got everything in the world new trucks new trailers give it all to you courtney get you together and that's a first round loss for courtney force it looks like she's headed back to the trailer jesus what planet are you on doesn't it bother you to lose what the hell is that all about do you know we're still alive at the end of the day we're all living what kind of is that what a bunch of crap come here matt i'm just going through bills um brittany and courtney's which comes to you what is this 885 dollars shoe store clothes stores we don't need one sunglass we need 20 and we all have our cell phones and our ipods well do they pay this no they don't pay it well why do you pay it then take the damn credit cards away from them you go this is exactly what i'm talking about you go to bell gardens they don't even have cell phones they don't have bmws and roush mustangs they're just kids working hard trying to get an education that's both see they don't pay it so they don't care take the cards where they at they're out by the pool you know i always thought my kids weren't spoiled but i'm starting to think maybe i was believing my own book i hear dad that's boat when i was a kid dad made us mow the grass didn't even have a garden didn't have it made didn't have nothing i wonder america's falling apart girls don't you have enough suntans this is ridiculous i want you to go to bell gardens with me let's do this now of all days that it's sunny i want to educate you we got credit card bills in here for a thousand dollars you got drawers full of 200 sunglasses 20 of them you need to go see them get a reality check of the real world pool they'll garden well don't get too excited okay i'll show you the trailer house i grew up in and what the real world's like girls don't forget about that 900 credit card bills in there for absolutely nothing okay come on even if they don't want to see it i don't care i'm taking louie and walker and my girls they need to see where i grew up girls are being way too nice it's easier to keep our mouths shut and go why are we doing this that's from my hotel why are we doing this we're going to show them where we came from when we think we got it bad we don't i want sunglasses like this how cute does that ashley where are we going for the senior girls did you hear what they just said what luanne walker was talking about playing football on the lawn and the only place to get a drink of water was to suck out of the spring yes we did yeah i know that lily you're the one that told me but what i'm saying to them is have they ever sucked out of a sprinkler no oh the day's getting better never mind they didn't get the point that's the trailer straight across the one under the red thing oh my gosh that's it that one right there did you know and then yeah the one on the right to the far right five of you lived in there that little thing john slip right are you looking at the front window there that i slept right in that front window i don't know if anybody's there i'm gonna go knock on the door hello how are you john forest is my name my name is i'm sorry to bother you would you mind i brought my kids by and my wife i grew up in this trailer okay i want my kids to see right there okay thank you come on this is it this is so exciting for me that's where i slept kitchen table was right here it's got a few miles on it it's so tiny a little oven she my mom would cook a whole turkey here in that oven i want you to see this this shows you can live and be happy because i was happy look at this come back here dad always kept all his uh he had all these radios i gotta go out he had all these radios and that's what he loved to just listen to stuff all night long i love those two people with all my heart it's been so long i guess when you walk in there and you you see where your mom and dad was and uh when you was little and they was feeding you and taking care of you and what's really bad is you end up rich and you wish you could have give them something because i could never do nothing for them they always did it for me this was home girls one no it wasn't all that bad that was my home and i'm proud of it i'm proud right now that i lived in that trailer because that's where i learned to be who i am and i fight every day to better my life and that's what i want my kids to see that's what my kids they need to learn they don't know the real world it's pretty cool is that a cute little house it's hard to like take it all in and see what he's been talking about it's pretty cool baby i know it was hard to watch him because i know how much he loves his family it's hard to see him come it's so on to see how they live out here rather than how are you still living you make me so mad that now i like you she's all crying mom come on you try to teach your kids a lesson i don't know if it'll make a difference i guess we'll just see good morning and welcome to the nhra drag races running in supercomp today is courtney force she's headed into her fifth round this is the farthest courtney has gone at a national event the stakes are high will she live up to the family name i really see now how hard my dad has worked and it just really makes me want to try harder good luck sweetie pretty good race cars right here don't make a mistake you're packing it in looks like for the first time courtney force has made it into the money you go five rounds yesterday and today it's further than your dad or ashley or anybody i know you felt like a race car driver before but now you feel even more so i feel more like i it shows me that i'm able to do it you know and now i have even more confidence in myself than before racing with my dad and my sister in the pros you know i just had a lot of fun today i thought it was really exciting i gotta go pick up my paycheck okay remember this paycheck remember your first day ever this is spectacular my kids thundered they put terror in the men's eyes this is courtney and this is her first check ever congratulations courtney really worked hard for this chat my god she really impressed me today wave the chat it's courtney force's first check ever she dominated she ripped their hearts out maybe there's hope after all maybe my kids are starting to come around hey what's up girl uh um it's really oh it's half the um the money i earn wow use it for him for his truck for his birthday and he'll love it give me a hug um brittany and ashley are gonna come by later and drop off their money you're bringing money too yup even after my fits and stuff that i have yeah you okay yeah any boy problems no i'm proud of you thank you you're welcome i love my daughters i got the greatest kids and they've really made me so proud of them you pull it up there like this no it's diagonally i think it should be on the top he might not even see it if it's on the top if it doesn't need to go to the right so this that's right right pulling it to the left i'm not pulling anything i think it's cute like you're right there yeah you're beautiful watch a bird look at that big bug on it right there eww a little divorce happy birthday and may have many more wonderful years ahead of him this is my first birthday party i think in my whole life i just love you that's simple okay thank you brother actually that's a lot happy birthday we love you we have a surprise but it's in the bed of my truck because we couldn't what are you getting it's a surprise everybody in this family we talked about it they wanted you to have a new truck i actually said she really he really loves harley's but we ain't putting you on no harley to kill yourself so they got you a harley davidson truck laurie and all the girls everybody chipped in all right congratulations happy birthday i'm gonna cry because i want one guys thank you thank you happy birthday remember back in 67 when you gave me a new car and i gave you a piece of did you love me you deserve this i'm really happy that i can give back to so many people that i love let's go let's go i'm the luckiest man alive

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Views: 290,238

Keywords: Driving, Force, Season, Episode, The, Journey, Home, NHRA, ESPN, A&E

Id: 9B9082d8WA0

Length: 21min 28sec (1288 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 26 2012