The Ford Performance F-150 Lightning SuperTruck made the fastest pass of all 61 competitors at the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, while Ford also claimed victories all over North America during a busy racing weekend.
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FORD PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: F-150 Lightning SuperTruck Fastest at Pikes Peak
Jun 24, 2024
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The Ford Performance F-150 Lightning SuperTruck made the fastest pass of all 61 competitors at the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado.
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The Ford Performance F-150 Lightning SuperTruck made the fastest pass of all 61 competitors at the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado.
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Romain Dumas piloted the electric vehicle demonstrator up America’s Mountain with a time of 8:53.553. -
Dumas qualified first in Open Class with a 3:32.831, resetting the class qualifying record and earning top qualifier overall. -
This is the second time Ford Performance has found success with an EV demonstrator at the event after debuting SuperVan 4.2 in the 2023 Hill Climb event. -
James Deane continued his dominating start to the 2024 season, securing his third victory in four rounds of the Formula Drift series in New Jersey. -
He has now piloted his RTR Mustang to a podium finish in each of the first four rounds of competition. -
The win increased Deane’s lead in the PRO championship standings to 74 points. -
Formula DRIFT PRO Round 5 will take place in St. Louis, July 18-20. -
Robert Noaker Racing swept the Dark Horse (DH) class at Watkins Glen International in New York with Tyler Maxson now winning three of the first four races in the IMSA Mustang Challenge. -
In the event finale, Robert Noaker Racing secured a 1-2-3 finish with Maxson, Robert Noaker and Reid Sweeney. -
Zachry Lee of McCumbee McAleer Racing (MMR) swept the Dark Horse Legends (DHL) class, winning three consecutive races. -
Maxson (DH) and Alex Bachoura (DHL) earned provisional poles, but Bachoura lost his top spot due to a camber violation. -
Maxson leads the Dark Horse championship points (1,350) and Lee leads the Legends class (1,330). -
Jack Polito and Polito Racing were victorious in both races during the Calabogie Spring Classic in the FEL Motorsports Sports Car Championship Canada. -
Polito has won each of the first four rounds of the season, leading the championship. -
The next race weekend is July 19-21 at Indy Toronto. -
Chase Briscoe was the runner-up and his teammate Josh Berry took third place to lead Ford in a rain-delayed outcome in the NASCAR Cup Series at New Hampshire. -
Chris Buescher joined them in the top five with a fifth-place finish. -
The race was halted by heavy afternoon rain and resumed in the evening hours under damp conditions. -
Ryan Blaney was poised for a potential second-consecutive win before a late-race wreck pushed him to 25th position. -
The Cup Series’ next race is the Ally 400, Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway. -
Cole Custer led the most laps on the day in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at New Hampshire, 114 of the 203 total, and had the dominant car throughout the race before finishing third. -
He held the lead through a series of late-race cautions, but he was shuffled due to contact during the final overtime restart. -
Ryan Sieg (sixth) and Riley Herbst (eighth) joined Custer inside the top 10. -
For Custer, the third-place finish was still good enough to keep him in the championship lead by 15 points. -
The series continues Saturday with the Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway. -
Harry Tincknell and Mike Rockenfeller secured a top-five finish for the Mustang GT3 in a rain-affected Six Hours of The Glen in the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship. -
Tincknell moved into podium position at the three-hour mark as rain began and led the race around the four-hour mark before heavy rain and track flooding caused a red flag with 90 minutes remaining. -
The No. 64 team lost track position during a pit stop in heavy rain but Tincknell recovered from eighth to fifth in the final 16 minutes, marking Ford Multimatic Motorsports’ first top-five finish of the year. -
Tincknell recorded the fastest lap in the GTD PRO field with a time of 1:45.852. -
The Proton Competition Mustang GT3 retired after three hours and 43 minutes due to damage exiting Turn 10. -
The No. 65 car of Joey Hand and Dirk Müller had a brake issue within the first hour and finished 10th in class after repairs. -
The next race is at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, July 12-14. -
Chad McCumbee and Jenson Altzman’s McCumbee McAleer Mustang GT4 finished 17th in class in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge at Watkins Glen after running out of fuel on the final lap, dropping from the top 10. -
Bob Michaelian and Luca Mars’ KohR Motorsports Mustang GT4 finished 19th in the GS class after suffering a left-front flat tire. -
Gregory Liefooghe and Sean Quinlan’s Cameron Racing USA Mustang GT4 retired in 21st after serving a drive-through penalty and experiencing rear-end issues. -
The next race is the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 120, July 10-12. -
Bob Tasca III qualified first with a 4.024 at 320.74 mph, his first No. 1 qualifier of the season, in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series at Richmond. -
He advanced to the Funny Car final round, but fell short to Austin Prock. -
Chad Green qualified second with a 4.024 at 320.13. -
The next stop on the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series is Norwalk, Ohio for the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, June 27-30. -
Academy Motorsport’s Eric Evans and Marco Signoretti led Ford with a runner-up GT4 Silver Cup podium finish in the SRO British GT Championship at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. -
Will Moore and Matt Nicoll-Jones recorded an eighth-place class finish -
An on-track incident canceled qualifying and based on pre-qualifying results, Evans and Signoretti started 11th, and Matt Nicoll-Jones and Moore 13th. -
Rounds six and seven are scheduled for July 12-14 at Snetterton in England. -
Zeb Wise drove to victory in the NARC 410 Super Dirt Cup opener at Skagit Speedway in Washington state. -
He drove the Rudeen Racing No. 26 from 12th to the top of the podium. -
Wise won the pole shuffle in Saturday’s feature, starting from first position and ultimately finishing runner-up.
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