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Austin Cindric won his first race of the season and second of his career by taking Sunday’s Cup race at World Wide Technology Raceway in Illinois.
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Three Mustangs finished in the top five, as Cindric was joined by Brad Keselowski (third) and Joey Logano (fifth).
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Ryan Blaney was in position to win but ran out of gas while leading at the white flag and finished 24th.
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The win is Ford’s third in the last four weeks and puts Cindric into the Cup Series playoffs along with Keselowski.
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The weekend was strong from the start for Ford, sweeping the top three spots in qualifying behind pole setter Michael McDowell.
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Keselowski is the top Ford in the point standings (ninth) with defending champion Ryan Blaney 12th.
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The NASCAR Cup Series continues at Sonoma Raceway in California on Sunday.
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Cole Custer finished sixth and Riley Herbst 10th to lead Ford in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on the 1.967-mile Portland International Raceway road course.
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With his sixth-place finish Saturday, Custer takes the championship lead by 18 points.
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Herbst remains seventh in the driver standings, 97 points behind Custer.
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The series stays on the West Coast with another road course race at Sonoma Raceway Saturday.
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Four F-150s finished inside the top 10 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, led by Ty Majeski in fourth, at World Wide Technology Raceway Saturday.
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He started on the pole and led 43 laps, earning the wins in Stage 1 and Stage 2.
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Layne Riggs finished fifth, Ben Rhodes seventh and Luke Fenhaus 10th.
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Ty Majeski is the highest-ranked Ford driver in the point standings (fourth), while Ben Rhodes is eighth after 12 events.
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The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is off until a trip to Nashville Superspeedway on June 28.
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The No. 65 Ford Multimatic Motorsports of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller led the “Champion Spirit” Mustang GT3 to a Ford-best sixth in the GTD PRO class in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in downtown Detroit.
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The No. 65 opted for an early driver change at about the 10-minute mark and, withstanding left-rear damage caused by a competitor during a pass around attempt under a safety car, picked up two spots late in the race.
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The No. 64 Ford Multimatic Motorsports sister car of Harry Tincknell and Mike Rockenfeller was forced to pit during the formation laps due to a broken driveshaft, re-entering the race 23 laps down in class, finishing 11th.
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The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returns June 20-23 with the Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen in New York.
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George Miedecke and Rylan Gray of Miedecke Motorsport earned their third win in four races with the all-new Mustang GT4, returning to the top step in the GT4 Australia Series event finale.
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Gray, the race starter, held nearly a four-second gap to the driver change, and Miedecke built the Mustang GT4’s advantage to as much as 14 seconds, ultimately crossing the finish at more than a 10-second margin of victory.
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The GT4 Australia series next competes Aug. 2-4 at Queensland Raceway.
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James Deane piloted his RTR Mustang to a podium finish in the Formula Drift series, his third straight to start the season, at Orlando.
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He came up just short in the final, which went to One More Time, making contact with the wall in Outside Zone 1 before running off the track.
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The second-place effort increased Deane’s lead in PRO standings to 44 points.
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Formula DRIFT PRO Round 4 will take place at Englishtown Raceway June 20-22.
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Daniel Wilkerson qualified fourth and advanced to the Funny Car semifinals to lead Ford in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series at New England Dragway.
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Bob Tasca III qualified sixth with a 3.923 at 327.43 mph and advanced to the second round of eliminations.
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The next stop on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is Bristol, Tennessee for the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, June 7-9.
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Donny Schatz made it to the Dash Draw at Beaver Dam in Wisconsin and finished third, earning him a third-place start for the World of Outlaws main feature. He ultimately finished sixth.
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Schatz started the Rick Ferkel Tribute at Fremont Speedway in Ohio in fifth and finished eighth on May 27.
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The World of Outlaws Sprint Cars make their next stop at River Cities Speedway in North Dakota Friday for the Don Mack Classic.
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Grégoire Munster finished fifth and Adrien Fourmaux sixth at WRC Rally Italia Sardegna in the FIA World Rally Championship.
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Fourmaux captured top-three finishes in SS1 and SS2 but retired in Friday’s final test with an electrical fault.
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He now sits fifth and Munster is sixth in the overall championship standings.
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Next up on the WRC schedule is the WRC Orlen 80th Rally Poland, June 27-30.