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Prolong Super Lubricants Continues Jam-Air Motorsports Race Sponsorship

Category: NHRA, Prolong

Prolong Super Lubricants continues its sponsorship of the Jam-Air Motorsports team for the 2012 race season. Jam-Air Motorsports driver Will Martin has powered their 1969 Ford Mustang Jam-Air Special Nostalgia Nitro funny car to top finishes, becoming the 2009 and 2010 NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series Champions. The team also won the 2008 and 2009 California Independent Funny Car Association season titles. Prolong, whose line of engine treatments and lubricants are ideal for high-horsepowe...

[05/25/2012] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Ford Racing Performance Parts Expands Crate Engine Lineup for 2012

Category: Ford Racing

When it comes to bolting pure Blue Oval muscle into your Ford performance car or truck project, nothing beats a crate engine from Ford Racing Performance Parts. For 2012, Ford Racing is expanding its range of quality engineered and built crate engines that are designed to fit nearly every performance application and budget. Adding FRPP's just-announced I-4 Crate Engine 'Concept' into the mix, Ford Racing's line of high performance crate engines now grows to become one of the most comprehe...

[12/09/2011] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

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Wild Card New Jersey Weekend concludes with Roush, Martin as top Mustang

Category: Road/Track Racing

When the 2008 KONI Challengeschedule was released, everyone took one look at the August 30 date andknew that it would be the wild card in the championship chase. Not only would his be the first-ever race held at the new Thunderbolt Raceway at New Jersey Motorsports Park, but the drivers would actually be competing in two races that weekend - the race to learn the nuances of the 2.25-mile road course and then the actual race itself. And to make it even more challenging, the Grand-Am officials ...

[10/22/2008] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

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Roush® drag racers start strong on 2008 NMRA campaign

Category: National Mustang Racers Association, Roush Performance

The four-car ROUSH® drag racing team started the 2008 NMRA season with a strong showing in the Sunday, March 9 elimination rounds at Bradenton (Fla.) Motorsports Park, but it didn’t always look like it. In fact, during the pre-race shake-down runs on Thursday and Friday, three of the cars struggled with major mechanical issues. The ROUSH quartet was led by Susan Roush-McClenaghan who took her car to the finals of the ROUSH Modular Muscle class, the second time in her career she has advanced t...

[03/10/2008] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

FordRacing.com changes, makes everyone a racing insider

Category: Ford Racing

Beginning April 25, racing fans worldwide can become part of Team Ford Racing with a free membership at www.fordracing.com Fordracing.com, arguably one of the most popular auto racing sites hosted by an auto manufacturer with more than three million visitors last year and more than 34 million hits, gives readers inside news access to all of Ford’s major racing programs. Among the racing series fans can get inside news about are NASCAR Nextel Cup, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck; NHRA drag...

[04/27/2007] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Ford Mustang FR500 to race in Europe

Category: Ford Racing, Mustang

The Ford Mustang has accumulated more racing wins in North America than any other Ford product. Created by Ford Racing, the Ford Mustang FR500GT and the Ford Mustang FR500C may soon be set to compete within the Federation Internationale De L''Automobile (FIA) GT competition, where Ford Racing hopes to continue its racing success in Europe. European teams are already taking notice of the new cars, and the cars are expected to be very competitive on some of Europes best tracks.

[03/19/2007] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Roush drag team ready to get back on track

Category: Business, National Mustang Racers Association

Though it has been nearly five months that the ROUSH Performance drag team has been sidelined, the drivers are more than anxious to return to action with the March 8-11 running of the 6th Annual Nitto Tire NMRA Spring Ford Nationals. This event will take place at Bradenton (Fla.) Motorsports Park and is the first of the seven race NMRA Ford Nationals season. But don''t make the mistake that the offseason has been a leisurely time for the ROUSH team. In fact, it has been anything but that. ...

[03/07/2007] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Ford and Shelby reach new heights

Category: Carroll Shelby, Ford Racing, Industry Shows, Mustang

To earn a decent living while amateur racing in the 1940s, Carroll Shelby raised chickens. His first batch of broilers earned him $5,000, but the farm bug didn’t last. Shelby went bankrupt when his second group of chickens died. “My chickens all had limberneck disease, and I was going broke,” says Shelby. “One day, I’d been vaccinating chickens and was running late. So I drove out to the racetrack in my overalls. It was about 110 degrees, and I decided to leave the overalls on because

[11/01/2006] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Ford Racing brings the BOSS back with new line of BOSS 302 crate engines

Category: Aftermarket, Ford Racing, Parts

Ford resurrects legendary 5.0-liter V-8 engine with all new Ford Racing BOSS 302. New line of BOSS crate engines are capable of delivering up to 500 horsepower Race ready and affordably priced, starting at $4650 Ford today announced at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show that it is reviving the legendary 5.0-liter 302 cubic inch V-8 engine for the aftermarket with a new line of BOSS 302 crate engines, which will go on sale in early 2007. Making its debut in...

[10/31/2006] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

Mustang Maturity - Ford’s Boy Racer grows up... to 550 hp

Category: Ford Racing, Mustang

Encouraged by the first-year dominance of its 420-horsepower stock Mustang race car in the Grand-Am Cup series, Ford Motor Company has developed what it describes as the ultimate Mustang stock race car. Code-named “Man Racer,” the new, 550-horsepower Mustang follows on the heels of the highly successful FR500C, also known as the “Boy Racer.” “Man Racer represents the reincarnation of the Trans-Am Mustang from the ’70s, which was the most powerful showroom-looking pony car at the time,”...

[05/25/2006] [Read More] [Post a Comment]

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