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Billy Johnson, driving the No. 61 Roush Performance Mustang Boss 302R, led the final 18 laps to win Friday’s Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series BMW Performance 200. Johnson’s victory with teammate Jack Roush Jr. gave Roush’s father, team owner Jack Roush, his first GRAND-AM victory at Daytona International Speedway.The margin of victory over second-place Charles Espenlaub in the No. 48 Fall-Line Motorsports BMW M3  was 1.061 seconds. Espenlaub’s teammate Bryan Sellers was third in the No. 46 BMW. Twenty-five of the race’s 58 laps were run under …

The Ford Mustang Boss 302R started off the 2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season in the best way possible with the Roush Performance teams qualifying 1-2 at the season opener at Daytona Speedway. Shelby Blackstock, driving in only his second season for the Roush Performance team, put the No. 51 Starstruck Entertainment Boss 302R on pole with a time of 1:57.523, . This is the first time that Blackstock and fellow driver Jade Buford have captured the top qualifying position, and they will also be going for their first …

The Grand-Am season kicks off this week at Daytona, and we’ll be paying close attention to the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge to see if the Mustang Boss 302R can finally topple the BMWs. One in particular to watch is the No.61 Boss 302R of Roush Performance driven by Jack Roush Jr. and Billy Johnson who finished a close second this year. In addition to running at the front of the pack, the two will also likely stand out thanks to the new bodywork fitted to their car (Ford Racing …

The 2012 Grand-Am racing season officially kicked off this weekend with the January test days at Daytona Speedway. Nearly a dozen Mustangs were in attendance, all scheduled to compete in the GS class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Many of the big names are back again for 2012, including Jack Roush Jr. and Billy Johnson of the No. 61 Roush Performance Mustang Boss 302R who finished a close second in the championship after earning six podium finishes and three wins. The team did well during this weekend’s practice …

This past year Performance Autosport of Richmond Virginia and veteran road racing driver Chris Cobetto embarked on a very difficult task – to win a NASA road racing championship in only one year with a brand new car. To achieve their goal they teamed up with Saleen Speedlab and other sponsors including HRE Wheels and Bully Dog to turn a stock 2011 Mustang GT into a full blown race car. Nine months and fourteen races later Performance Autosport and Cobetto had captured nine wins, 11 podiums, 5 poles and the …

Justin Pawlak came into the final event of the 2011 Formula Drift season in second place in the standings, needing to take out a 13 point deficit to give the Ford Mustang its second straight series championship. Pawlak made up points on the frontrunner by finishing in the top eight, but unfortunately he fell just short in the closest Formula Drift season ever.
Pawlak started off 2011 season on a high note, taking his first Formula Drift victory ever at the season opener in Long Beach. He followed that up with …

Eric Foss captured his second GTS class victory in the SCCA World Challenge this year, leading the way in his No. 73 Traxxas/St. Jude Hopsital/SPX Ford Mustang FR500S with Jason von Kluge and Paul Brown following close behind for an all-Mustang podium. Foss started on pole with the fastest time in qualifying and led the entire way to the checkered flag.
“I have to thank Mike Jenkins from TRAXXAS to give me this opportunity to drive the TRAXXAS/St. Jude Ford Mustang this year,” Foss said. “We brought in …

Eric Foss was the fastest man in qualifying in the GTS class at this weekend’s World Challenge race at Road Atlanta, the last race of the 2011 season.For Foss it was his second pole on the season, although they came 11 races apart as he bookended the year with the top grid spot in the No. 73 Traxxas/St. Jude’s/SPX Ford Mustang FR500S with a 1:30.934 (100.556 mph).
“The Traxxas/Capaldi Racing Ford Mustang was phenomenal today,” Foss said. “The crew has done a great job this weekend, and …

The Multimatic Motorsports team of Joe Foster and Scott Maxwell didn’t quite have the season they were hoping for, finishing sixth overall in the GS class of the Continental Tire Sports Car Championship this season. The team had several high points, like capturing the first ever victory for the Boss 302R at Barber Motorsports Park, but also had a few lows including crashing out of the race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
However the team finished, the Multimatic Motorsports Boss 302R was consistently one of the fastest cars on track. This …