Chase Briscoe won at Darlington Raceway to give Ford a manufacturer’s-best six playoff entries in the NASCAR Cup Series, while Ford also took multiple victories in the IMSA Mustang Challenge at Circuit of the Americas and clinched the FEL Motorsports SCCC GT4 championship.
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FORD PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: Ford Takes NASCAR, Off-Road and GT4 Wins
Sep 03, 2024
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Chase Briscoe won Sunday night’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway to qualify for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
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Chase Briscoe won Sunday night’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway to qualify for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
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He went from fourth to first with 26 laps to go and he never looked back en route to his second career Cup Series win. -
The win gives Ford a manufacturer-best six drivers in the playoffs: Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Austin Cindric, Brad Keselowski, Harrison Burton and Briscoe. -
The NASCAR Cup Series will kick off the opening round of the playoffs Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway. -
San Antonio native Trenton Estep of MDK Motorsports earned a Dark Horse (DH) class victory, from the pole, in his IMSA Mustang Challenge series debut at Circuit of the Americas in Texas. -
Robert Noaker escaped the Dark Horse field after a late-race restart, winning the finale for Robert Noaker Racing. -
Zachry Lee of McCumbee McAleer Racing earned a home track sweep of the weekend in the Legends class. -
Noaker reclaims the DH points lead from teammate Tyler Maxson, leading by a narrow 70-point margin into the final rounds at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. -
The season finale is set for Oct. 4-6 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. -
Jack Polito and Polito Racing clinched the FEL Motorsports SCCC GT4 Championship, the first globally for the all-new Mustang GT4, after winning both races from pole at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Ontario, Canada. -
Polito became the first driver in series history to win back-to-back championships, both of which were in Mustang. -
Polito Racing concludes the season having collected eight victories and nine podiums in five events. -
Loren Healy won back-to-back in his 4400 Ford Bronco at Crandon, taking first place at Rage on the Rocks and the Crandon World Cup in Wisconsin. -
Healy and Vaughn Gittin Jr. secured a one-two position qualifying order for Rage on the Rocks in their Ford Broncos. -
Gittin Jr. finished third to bookend the podium with Bronco at the Crandon World Cup. -
Cole Custer led Ford with a second-place finish in overtime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at Darlington. -
He qualified 21st and drove through the field throughout the day, avoiding trouble on the overtime restart but made contact on the backstretch with eventual race winner Christopher Bell. -
Ryan Sieg, battling for the final playoff spot, finished 18th and fell just 10 points short of the top-12 cut line. -
Three races remain in the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular season. -
The Xfinity Series returns to action Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway. -
The No. 77 Proton Competition Ford Mustang GT3, driven by Ben Barker, Ryan Hardwick and Zacharie Robichon, led Ford to a sixth-place class finish in the FIA World Endurance Championship at the Lone Star Le Mans hosted at Circuit of The Americas. -
Robichon reached a podium position with about an hour remaining in the race, recovering from a drive-through penalty assessed mid-race. -
The No. 88 of Ben Keating, Dennis Olsen and Mikkel O. Pedersen ran as high as fourth in class during the race, however suffered steering difficulties in the last hour of competition. -
Keating returned to Ford Performance and WEC competition for his home race, advancing to the team’s second Hyperpole of the season. -
The next series stop is the 6 Hours of Fuji, Sept. 13-15. -
James Deane led the duo of Ford Mustangs with a trip to the final four in the main competition during Formula Drift action in Utah. -
RTR Teammate Ben Hobson battled his way through the seeding bracket, capturing second place. Hobson then went out in his Top 32 battle. -
Deane leads points in the championship standings by 74 points. -
The final round of Formula DRIFT will take place Oct. 18-19 at Irwindale Speedway in California, where the championship will be decided. -
Donny Schatz finished fourth at Huset’s Speedway in South Dakota in the World of Outlaws series. -
He won the third Heat Race of the weekend. -
The World of Outlaws series takes on the Stockton Showdown in California and the Tom Tarlton Classic this weekend. -
Bob Tasca III qualified second at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis with a 3.871 at 336.23 mph. -
He made it to the final round of the Pep Boys Funny Car All-Star Callout, where he narrowly missed victory to Paul Lee. -
Tasca remains second in points for the championship.
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