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Force was second in points behind teammate Austin Prock when he was injured in Virginia on June 23 after his engine exploded and he crashed into the walls. Force has not raced since then and sits sixth in the standings with Prock on top.

“I know how fortunate I am to have been picked to fill in for John, and I should be easy to spot in the pits. I’ll be the guy who can’t stop smiling," Beckman said in a statement.

Thread turning is another option for making internal threads when tapping conditions are not optimal, such as parts with large diameters or in difficult-to-cut materials. Thread turning is most often performed on a lathe with a cylindrical workpiece and uses an indexable carbide insert with a boring bar. When boring bars are too large for the size of hole, a solid carbide threading bar can be used. In thread turning, the workpiece rotates as the cutting tool moves axially to create a continuous thread path. Like thread-milling, it normally takes multiple passes to generate a full thread profile. Unlike a thread-milling cutter, all the material removal is accomplished with only one cutting edge engaged. Removing only a fraction of the thread depth in each pass keeps the cutting edge from being overloaded.

John Force Racing president Robert Hight announced that past Funny Car champion Jack Beckman will drive for Force, the 16-time Funny Car champion, for the rest of the season.

Force spent about two weeks in a Virginia hospital before being moved to a facility in Arizona. Force's family has said he's receiving outpatient care at his home in California.

BROWNSBURG, Ind. (AP) — Drag racing Hall of Famer John Force may contend for another Funny Car title, even though he won't drive the rest of the season as he recovers from a traumatic brain injury after a crash in Virginia last month.

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