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 Ford Racing Weekend Results-4/8/2011

DATE: Will be calculated from "Release Start Date" field.

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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (Fusion)

  • Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 Fusion capped a truly dominating weekend for Ford racing, giving the manufacturer its fourth win of the weekend across four different platforms and sweeping the NASCAR weekend at Texas, breaking a personal 76-race Sprint Cup winless streak in the process Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway.
  • Kenseth simply had the fastest car all night long, leading 169 of 334 laps at the 1½-mile track
    Ford had five drivers finish in the top 7, including all four Roush-Fenway drivers. Carl Edwards finished third, 17 seconds back, with Greg Biffle fourth and polesitter David Ragan seventh.
  • Richard Petty Motorsports driver Marcos Ambrose rounded out the stellar group in the top-10 with a sixth place finish.
    Top five finishers in Texas include: (1) Matt Kenseth- Ford; (2) Clint Bowyer- Chevrolet; (3) Carl Edwards- Ford; (4) Greg Biffle - Ford; (5) Paul Menard - Chevrolet
  • Other Ford drivers finishing in the Top 20 in Texas include: Trevor Bayne (17th), and  AJ Allmendinger (19th).
    After a third place finish, Edwards is now back at the top of the points standings and Kenseth, with the race win, jumped up six spots sitting in third, thirteen points behind his Roush-Fenway teammate.

 

NASCAR Nationwide Series (Mustang)

  • Mustang added another series victory to its 47-year racing resume with Friday’s first NASCAR-sanctioned race win as Carl Edwards took home the checkered flag in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway in Ft. Worth, Texas.
  • Edwards scored his sixth win from the pole and sixth win on a 1.5-mile track.
  • Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the No. 6 Ford Mustang remains at the top of the point standings after an eigth place finish in Texas.

 

GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge  (Mustang)

  • Multimatic Motorsports’ championship driver duo of Scott Maxwell and Joe Foster claimed the first competition victory for the Boss 302R in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge in GRAND-AM at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama.
  • The co-drivers of the No. 15 BOSS 302R went into Saturday's race as polesitters.
  • Multimatic sits second in the team points standings, five points behind first place.  

 

Formula Drift (Mustang)

  • Justin Pawlak, driver of the Falken Tire Ford Mustang, won the season opening Round One: Downtown Long Beach event.  Teammate Vaughn Gittin, Jr. failed to qualify for the event.

 

NHRA Funny Car Series (Mustang)

  • NO RACE - The NHRA Funny Car Series returns April 14-17, for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com Four Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway.

 

Global RallyCross Championship (Fiesta/Focus)

  • NO RACE -The Global RallyCross Championship returns to action again on April 15-16 outside Seattle, Wash. 

 

World Rally Championship  (Fiesta)

  • NO RACE - The World Rally Championship returns April 14-16 for the Jordan Rally.

 

RallyCar Rally America

  • NO RACE - Rallycar/Rally America returns April 30- May 1 for the Olympus Rally in Ocean Shores, Washington.                     

 

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NHRA Pro Stock Series (Mustang)

  • NO RACE - The NHRA Pro Stock Series returns April 14-17, for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com Four Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway.

 

GRAND-AM Rolex Series

  • Ryan Dalziel and Mike Forest, co-drivers of the No. 8 Starworks Motorsport Ford Riley, were the highest finishing Ford drivers coming in third in the Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham Alabama.

  

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