Force grew up in a drag racing family, with her father John Force having built one of the most successful teams in NHRA history through John Force Racing. She attended California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English along with a teaching credential before pursuing a professional racing career.
Force made her NHRA Top Fuel debut in 2013, becoming the first driver from John Force Racing to compete in the Top Fuel dragster class. Sponsored by Monster Energy, she established herself as a consistent competitor before breaking through to championship contention.
In 2016, she became the first woman to win the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. On May 20, 2016, she set a new NHRA Top Fuel record with a run of 3.676 seconds over 1,000 feet at Heartland Park in Topeka, Kansas.
Force claimed the 2017 NHRA Top Fuel championship, clinching the title in the quarterfinals of the final race of the season before going on to win the event. She won four races during the year — the most in a single season of her career at that point, including three in the Countdown to the Championship. The title made her the second woman in history to win a Top Fuel championship, after Shirley Muldowney in 1982.
In 2019, Force became the first woman driver to qualify as the number-one starter in Top Fuel at the U.S. Nationals.
On October 2, 2022, she set a new national record with the fastest Top Fuel run in history to that date, at 338.17 mph at the NHRA Midwest Nationals. She went on to win the 2022 NHRA Top Fuel championship and reset the speed record to 338.94 mph. She also established the elapsed time record at 3.623 seconds, giving her 16 career NHRA wins.
Force continued to push the speed limits of the class after her second title. On July 20, 2025, she broke her own record with a 341.59 mph pass at the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Kent, Washington. Eight days later, on July 28, 2025, she set the current outright record of 343.16 mph — the fastest Top Fuel run in the history of the sport.
Force announced on September 12, 2025, that she would step away from competition at the conclusion of the 2025 season. Josh Hart was named as her replacement at John Force Racing.
Across her career, Force combined two world championships with the outright speed record of the sport, making her one of the defining Top Fuel competitors of the 2010s and 2020s. As only the second woman to win a Top Fuel title and the first to hold the all-time speed record, she extended the legacy of barrier-breaking women in a discipline where Shirley Muldowney had set the precedent four decades earlier.