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Force, 68, said that he was knocked out in the Phoenix incident, but not at the season-opening event at Pomona, California."
“Number one, I want to clarify a lot of people thought I was knocked out at Pomona," Force said. "I wasn’t knocked out. I remember the race and I remember trying to stay off the wall. All those announcers, Dave Rieff and Tony Pedregon, do a great job. I got no problem with them. They can only talk about what they see, and they thought I was knocked out because I wasn’t pulling the brake handle.
"If you look at it, I’ve got my hands on the steering wheel trying to keep it off the wall to save the chassis. That’s my job. I came to a stop and pulled the brake. I was not knocked out. Some of the Safety Safari people, God bless them. They love us, and they want to protect us, but I was never knocked out. I remember the whole view. This week (at Phoenix), I was knocked out (chuckles), but with my hard head, who cares?"