Joey Logano went the final 110 laps without pitting and survived five overtimes to win in the NASCAR Cup Series in Nashville, while Bob Tasca III collected his second Wally of the season in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series and Bailey Cole and Loren Healey both came out victorious with their 4600 and 4400 Ford Broncos in Ultra4 USA.
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FORD PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: Logano Leads Blue Oval Blitz in Nashville
Jul 01, 2024
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Joey Logano went the final 110 laps without pitting and survived five overtimes to win Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway and clinch a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
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Joey Logano went the final 110 laps without pitting and survived five overtimes to win Sunday’s Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway and clinch a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
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He led the final nine laps and joined fellow Ford drivers Brad Keselowski, Ryan Blaney and Austin Cindric in the playoff field. -
Five Ford drivers finished in the top 10, including Ryan Preece (fourth), Chris Buescher (fifth), Ryan Blaney (sixth) and Noah Gragson (10th). -
Logano’s win was the 33rd of his career and 31st with Ford, which puts him fourth on the all-time manufacturer win list. -
The Chicago Street Race is up next for the Cup Series on Sunday. -
Bob Tasca III collected his second Wally of the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series season, winning the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. -
He was low ET and top speed on race day and reset the track Funny Car speed record with his 3.867 at 336.82 mph E1 blast. -
Tasca qualified fourth, with Daniel Wilkerson and Chad Green qualifying seventh and ninth to represent the Ford Mustang Dark Horse. -
The next stop on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is Kent, Washington for the NHRA Northwest Nationals, July 19-21. -
Bailey Cole wheeled his Bronco to a 4600 class victory in Ultra4 USA, with Vaughn Gittin Jr. coming in second at NorCal Stampede in California. -
Loren Healy was top of the podium with his Bronco in the 4400 class main event after qualifying second. -
Cole qualified first in 4600 with Gittin Jr. taking first in the prelims, making it Ford Bronco 1-2 in 4600 all event. -
Noah Gragson led a trio of three Ford drivers to top-10 finishes with a fifth-place run in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Nashville. -
Riley Herbst finished sixth and Cole Custer was ninth. -
Custer was one of three drivers overall to lead the race, leading twice for 64 laps. -
He maintained his 15-point lead atop the standings with nine races left in the regular season. -
The Xfinity Series continues Saturday on the streets of Chicago. -
Ben Rhodes led Ford with a seventh-place finish Friday night, marking his third straight top-10 run in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. -
ThorSport teammates Ty Majeski (ninth) and Jake Garcia (10th) also finished in the top 10. -
Majeski continues to be Ford’s top driver in the point standings, as he sits fourth. -
Rhodes (eighth) is also in a playoff position with three races to go in the regular season. -
The Truck Series returns to action at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania July 12. -
Adrien Fourmaux earned his third podium finish of the season in the FIA World Rally Championship at Rally Poland, while Martin Sesks made his debut with a Puma Rally1. -
M-Sport celebrated 300 consecutive manufacturer point finishes, a streak that began at Monte Carlo in 2002. -
Sesks carried momentum throughout the rally and finished fifth overall. Gregorie Munster had a strong start while finishing seventh overall. -
Fourmaux captured top-three finishes in SS16 through SS19. -
Fourmaux holds onto his fifth position in the championship points. -
Next up on the WRC schedule is the WRC Tet Rally Latvia, July 18-21. -
Donny Schatz earned another KSE Hard Charger Award in the World of Outlaws series after improving from 10th to fourth in the feature race at Cedar Lake Speedway in Wisconsin. -
Friday’s event was canceled due to weather. -
The World of Outlaws Sprint Cars make their next stop July 10 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, for the Jim Boyd Memorial. -
The No. 64 Proton Competition Mustang GT3 of Frédéric Vervisch, Dennis Olsen and Chris Mies placed 12th in the Pro Cup class during the 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium. -
The No. 64 qualified 22nd in class, and during the race improved to as high as sixth. -
The team opted to pit before a full-course yellow during the race, which caused them to be a lap down. -
While unable to recover the lap, the No. 64 competed on the cusp of a class top-10 for the majority of the second-half of race. -
The next round of the GT World Challenge Europe is scheduled for July 26-28 at the Nürburgring in Germany. -
Eric Evans and Marco Signoretti led Ford in the event opener at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, finishing ninth in the Silver class in the GT4 European Series. -
Academy Motorsports teammates Matt Nicoll-Jones and William Moore placed 13th, while new Mustang GT4 program TeamFloral-Vanspringel of Nathan Vansprigel and Nico Verdonck finished 15th. -
Evans and Signoretti carried their momentum to the finale, improving 12 positions during the race to fifth. -
Vansprigel and Verdonck improved to 14th in the second race, while Nicoll-Jones and Moore retired in the first 20 minutes of the hour-long race. -
The next round of action is slated for July 19-21 at Hockenheim in Germany.
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