Ford took two out of three in NASCAR, with Cole Custer clinching the Xfinity Series regular season championship. Layne Riggs won his second straight NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race and four Ford drivers advanced to the second round of the Cup Series playoffs.
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FORD PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: Blue Oval Bright at Bristol; Four Cup Drivers Advance
Sep 23, 2024
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Cole Custer led a race-high 104 laps, including the final 92, to win Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee and clinch the regular season championship.
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Cole Custer led a race-high 104 laps, including the final 92, to win Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee and clinch the regular season championship.
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Ryan Sieg finished eighth and Riley Herbst was 13th. -
The win was Custer’s second of the year and helped him secure the second seed for the upcoming seven-race playoffs. -
Herbst also qualified for the playoffs and will go in as the eighth seed in the 12-driver field. -
The Xfinity Series playoffs begin Saturday at Kansas Speedway. -
Layne Riggs dominated the final stage, leading the last 80 laps, to win for the second straight race as he captured the UNOH 200 Thursday night in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Bristol Motor Speedway. -
The win is the fourth straight series victory for Ford. -
Playoff contenders Ty Majeski and Ben Rhodes finished eighth and 27th, respectively. -
Majeski is fourth in the playoff standings, 58 points above the cut line, while Rhodes is 10th and 12 points below the final transfer position. -
Two drivers will be eliminated when the series travels to Kansas Speedway Friday. -
Ryan Blaney led Ford with a sixth-place finish Saturday night in the NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Motor Speedway. -
Ryan Preece (seventh) and Chase Briscoe (eighth) also ended up in the top 10. -
Blaney, along with Team Penske teammates Joey Logano and Austin Cindric, and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe advanced to the Round of 12. -
RFK Racing’s Brad Keselowski and Harrison Burton of Wood Brothers Racing were eliminated. -
The Round of 12 begins Sunday at Kansas Speedway. -
The No. 64 of Harry Tincknell and Mike Rockenfeller led Ford on the front row of the GTD Pro starting grid to a second-place class finish in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Indy. -
Tincknell battled to the top spot from third with about two-and-a-half hours remaining, and retained the lead until the final driver change, when a competitor narrowly picked up the position exiting pit lane. -
Rockenfeller maintained second position throughout his stint, giving the team and the No. 64 its second consecutive class podium of the season. -
On the second lap of the race, Dirk Müller was forced off-course in Turn 10 after a collision by a class competitor. Continued, extensive repairs to the front end and steering set the No. 65 Mustang GT3 27 laps down when it reentered the field at the hour-mark. -
The No. 65 continued to visit pitlane and the garage, ultimately finishing 17th in class. -
The No. 55 Proton Competition Mustang GT4 of Corey Lewis, Giammarco Levorato and Ben Barker battled mid-field from a second-position GTD class start, sustaining contact with multiple competitors and experiencing A/C issues. This caused the team to prematurely retire in 17th after 162 completed laps. -
The season concludes with Petit Le Mans Oct. 9-12 at Road Atlanta. -
The No. 13 McCumbee McAleer Racing Mustang GT4 of Jenson Altzman and Nate Cicero led Ford to a 10th-place GS finish in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series at Indianapolis. -
Cicero qualified third in class to kick off his Mustang GT4 debut, climbing to as high as second in his opening stint. -
Those opting to pit earlier in the pit sequence benefitted, as the No. 13 shuffled back to 10th. -
The No. 59 KohR Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 of Bob Michaelian and Luca Mars led the race at about the hour mark – from 10th – however was penalized (stop, 60-second hold) for entering pitlane while closed. -
No. 43 Cameron Racing USA Ford Mustang GT4 was issued a mechanical black flag early in the race and forced to pit to replace a door, finishing six laps down. -
The final race of the season is scheduled for Oct. 9-11 at Road Atlanta. -
The No. 64 of Dennis Olsen, Christopher Mies and Frédéric Vervisch battled to a 12th-place finish from an 18th-position start in the SRO GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup at Monza in Italy. -
Olsen evaded opening-lap collisions which caused a lengthy safety car period to start the race, and the No. 64 restarted from 37th to 23rd in the overall field and gained another seven positions in his stint. -
Olsen made his surge at about the hour-mark to eighth and through Vervisch and Mies’ stints, continued a steady pace to 12th. -
The season finale is scheduled for Nov. 28-30 as the Endurance Cup concludes with the 6 Hours of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. -
Eric Evans and Marco Signoretti of Academy Motorsport led Ford in the first qualifying session, starting sixth and finishing ninth in the opening Silver Cup race at Monza in the SRO GT4 European Series. -
Team Floral-Vanspringel led the Mustang GT4 charge for the finale, as Nathan Vanspringel and Nico Verdonck secured an eighth-place finish – where the team qualified. -
Academy Motorsport teammates Matt Nicoll-Jones and William Moore finished a weekend-best 12th in the finale. -
The season finale concludes Nov. 28-30 at Jeddah. -
Donny Schatz drove from 19th to seventh during Saturday night’s World of Outlaws feature at the Dennis Roth Classic in California. -
He finished 16th on Friday night at Thunderbowl Raceway. -
The World of Outlaws head to Ohio next, for the Buckeye Brawl and the Federated Auto Parts Showdown, Friday and Saturday. -
Bob Tasca III qualified fifth before advancing to the semifinals at the NHRA Carolina Nationals in North Carolina. -
He maintains his second place standing in points with four races left in the season. -
The next stop on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is St Louis, Missouri for the NHRA Midwest Nationals beginning Friday. -
Emely De Heus finished 10th in Race 2 and 15th in Race 1 of the F1 Academy in Singapore. -
MP Motorsport, Team of De Heus, sits in fifth place overall. -
The next F1 Academy event will take place in Lusail, Qatar, Oct. 29-Nov. 1.
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